The Minnesota River Conference is a Minnesota high school sports conference that serves mainly the Southwestern Suburbs of the Twin Cities. Watertown-Mayer is furthest north while Tri-City United is furthest south.
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Member schools
History
The conference was formed in the late 1950s. In the 1960s and for most of the 70s, teams in the conference were Arlington-Green Isle, Belle Plaine, Jordan, Le Center, Le Sueur, Montgomery, New Prague and Norwood-Young America. New Prague left the conference beginning with the 1979-80 school year as it had grown much quicker than the other schools. Mankato Loyola replaced New Prague. For the years 1986 through 1989 Henderson High School was paired with Arlington-Green Isle, forming the Sibley East Bengals. In 1990, Henderson paired with Le Sueur, forming what was to become officially in 1992 as the Le Sueur-Henderson School District. Later, Arlington-Green Isle merged with Gaylord and became Sibley East in 1995. As the other schools got larger, Mankato Loyola and Le Center had stagnate enrollment. In 2002, Mankato Loyola left and was replaced by Mayer Lutheran. The following year saw Le Center leave and was replaced by Holy Family Catholic. In 2011, Holy Family Catholic left and was replaced with Watertown-Mayer. Finally, beginning with the 2012-2013 school year, Montgomery-Lonsdale consolidated with former conference member Le Center and became Tri-City United. Starting with the 2015-2016 school year, the Minnesota River Conference will have one less team when the Watertown-Mayer Royals return to the Wright County Conference.
State Champions
The Minnesota River Conference has had success on the big stage when competing in State Tournaments. Member Schools have won 24 State Championships throughout the years. The following is a list of Schools along with their respected State Championships:
State Championships won by member schools when they were not apart of the Minnesota River Conference are excluded from the above list.
All-time school records by Minnesota River Conference football wins
This list goes from 1959 through the 2013 season and includes former members, previous cooperatives and present members and lists all-time conference records, overall conference winning percentages, total football conference championships and either if they were solo or co championships and state championships.
The following table lists the years when the different school members won the conference in terms of football.