COULEE CONFERENCE

Coulee Conference
Conference	WIAA
Commissioner	Louie Ferguson
Sports fielded	20 men's: 10; women's: 10; ;
Division	Divisions 2-3 (Baseball, Cross Country, Softball, Track and Field, Wrestling) Divisions 3-4 (Basketball) Divisions 4-6 (Football)
No. of teams	7
Headquarters	[[{{{hq_city}}}, Wisconsin]]
Official website	Coulee Conference

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Coulee Conference Member School Locations in Wisconsin

The Coulee Conference is a seven-member high school athletic conference in the La Crosse, Wisconsin area. It is affiliated with the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association. Conference schools have enrollments ranging from 236 to 540, with an average enrollment of 395.^[1]

Beginning in 2014, West Salem will compete in the Mississippi Valley Conference for football only.

With the announcement and passing of football-only conference realignments by the WIAA, the Coulee Conference will be temporarily split up for the 2019 football season.^[2] In the 2020 football season, the Coulee Conference will return, but Luther will join the Scenic Bluffs Conference. The Altoona Railroaders of the Cloverbelt Conference and Aquinas Blugolds (La Crosse) of the Mississippi Valley Conference will join the Coulee for football only.^[3]

Sports

The Coulee Conference sponsors 20 varsity sports. They are:

Fall - Football, boys' soccer, girls' tennis, volleyball, boys' cross country, girls' cross country and girls' golf
Winter - Boys' basketball, girls' basketball, gymnastics, wrestling boys' hockey and girls' hockey.
Spring - Boys' track, girls' track, boys' golf, boys' tennis, girls' soccer, baseball and softball.

Schools

Institution	Location	Affiliation	Enrollment^[1]	Mascot
Arcadia	Arcadia	Public	417	Raiders
Black River Falls	Black River Falls	Public	481	Tigers
Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau	Galesville	Public	400	Red Hawks
Luther	Onalaska	Private	228	Knights
Viroqua	Viroqua	Public	339	Blackhawks
West Salem	West Salem	Public	607	Panthers
Westby	Westby	Public	305	Norsemen

Former schools

Holmen Vikings ( Holmen) - Left after 1988 season to join Mississippi Valley Conference
Onalaska Hilltoppers ( Onalaska) - Left after 1988 season to join Mississippi Valley Conference
La Crescent Lancers ( La Crescent, Minnesota) - Left after 2006 season to join Minnesota's Hiawatha Valley League
Melrose-Mindoro Mustangs ( Melrose)
Cochrane-Fountain City Pirates ( Fountain City)

State championships

Football

1978 - Westby^[4]
1985 - Westby^[4]
1986 - Westby^[4]
2007 - West Salem^[4]

Boys' golf

1994 - Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau^[5]
2010 - Arcadia^[5]

Softball

2014 - Arcadia^[6]

Boys' Track & Field

1991 - Arcadia^[7]
1992 - Arcadia^[7]
1994 - Arcadia^[7]
1995 - Arcadia^[7]
1998 - Arcadia^[7]
1999 - Arcadia^[7]
2004 - Arcadia^[7]

Girls' Track & Field

1979 - West Salem^[8]
1998 - Arcadia^[8]
2003 - Arcadia^[8]
2004 - Arcadia^[8]
2007 - West Salem^[8]
2008 - Arcadia^[8]
2009 - Arcadia^[8]

Spring Baseball

2017 - West Salem

State championship runners-up

Football

1989 - Westby^[4]
1999 - Black River Falls^[4]
2002 - West Salem^[4]
2005 - West Salem^[4]
2009 - Arcadia^[4]

Boys' basketball

2006 - Westby^[9]
2012 - Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau^[10]

Girls' basketball

1999 - Viroqua^[11]

Spring baseball

1981 - Viroqua^[12]
1985 - Viroqua^[12]
1997 - Westby^[12]
2013 - Westby^[12]
2014- Viroqua

Summer baseball

1984 - Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau^[13]

Boys' cross country

1994 - West Salem^[14]

Girls' golf

2008 - Arcadia/Cochrane-Fountain City^[15]

Boys' golf

1991 - Arcadia^[5]
1996 - Arcadia^[5]
1999 - Arcadia^[5]

Gymnastics

1979 - Viroqua^[16]
2004 - Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau/Melrose-Mindoro/Cochrane-Fountain City^[16]
2005 - Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau/Melrose-Mindoro/Cochrane-Fountain City^[16]

Girls' hockey

2002 - Viroqua/ Cornerstone/Westby/Youth Initiative^[17]

Boys' Track & Field

1973 - West Salem^[7]
2001 - Arcadia^[7]
2007 - Arcadia^[7]
2009 - West Salem^[7]

Girls' Track & Field

2008 - West Salem^[8]
2009 - West Salem^[8]

Softball

1991 - Westby^[6]
2007 - Arcadia^[6]

Wrestling

1995 - Arcadia^[18]

The Vernon County Mega Bowl

Beginning in 2019, the Westby Norsemen and the Viroqua Blackhawks have played for the Vernon County Mega Bowl in their yearly football contest. The Norsemen won the first Mega Bowl game 21-8 in 2019. There was no Mega Bowl Game in 2020.^[19]

Mega Bowl Game results

Westby victories	Viroqua victories	Tie games

No.	Date	Location	Winning team		Losing team
1	October 18, 2019	Viroqua	Westby	21	Viroqua	8
2	September 3, 2021	Westby	Westby	46	Viroqua	0
3	September 9, 2022	Viroqua	Westby	47	Viroqua	15

No.	Date	Location	Winning team		Losing team
4	September 8, 2023	Westby	Westby	35	Viroqua	7
Series: Westby leads 4–0

References

^ ^a ^b "2017-2018 Enrollments" (PDF). Retrieved 2017-02-28.
^ "WIAA 2019 Football Realignment Plan". 2 May 2018.
^ https://www.wiaawi.org/News/NewsReleases/tabid/113/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/14854/Revised-Football-Only-Conference-Plan-Released.aspx ^{[
dead link]}
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ https://www.wiaawi.org/Portals/0/PDF/Results/Football/State_Records/teamchamps.pdf ^{[
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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e https://www.wiaawi.org/Portals/0/PDF/Results/Golf_Boys/teamchamps.pdf ^{[
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^ ^a ^b ^c http://www.wiaawi.org/Portals/0/PDF/Results/Softball/State_Records/teamchamps.pdf ^{[
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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k http://www.wiaawi.org/Portals/0/PDF/Results/Track/State_Records/bteamchamps.pdf ^{[
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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ http://www.wiaawi.org/Portals/0/PDF/Results/Track/State_Records/gteamchamps.pdf ^{[
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^ https://www.wiaawi.org/Portals/0/PDF/Results/Basketball_Boys/teamchamps.pdf ^{[
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^ "Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau vs Brillion (03/17/12 at Kohl Center - Madison, Wisconsin)".
^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-02-28. Retrieved 2017-02-28.{{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title ( link)
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d https://www.wiaawi.org/Portals/0/PDF/Results/Baseball_Spring/State_Records/teamchamps.pdf ^{[
bare URL PDF]}
^ https://www.wiaawi.org/Portals/0/PDF/Results/Baseball_Summer/State_Records/teamchamps.pdf ^{[
bare URL PDF]}
^ https://www.wiaawi.org/Portals/0/PDF/Results/Cross_Country/State_Records/bteamchamps.pdf ^{[
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^ https://www.wiaawi.org/Portals/0/PDF/Results/Golf_Girls/State_Records/teamchamps.pdf ^{[
bare URL PDF]}
^ ^a ^b ^c https://www.wiaawi.org/Portals/0/PDF/Results/Gymnastics/State_Records/teamchamps.pdf ^{[
bare URL PDF]}
^ https://www.wiaawi.org/Portals/0/PDF/Results/Hockey_Girls/State_Records/teamchamps.pdf ^{[
bare URL PDF]}
^ http://www.wiaawi.org/Portals/0/PDF/Results/Wrestling/State%20Records/teamchamps.pdf ^{[
bare URL PDF]}
^ "Noah Benish on Instagram: ""When they look back in the anals of history, people are gonna be talking about three things: The discovery of fire, invention of the submarine, and the Flint, Michigan Mega Bowl."-Jackie Moon #megabowl"".

External links

Official website

[enrollment-1] "2017-2018 Enrollments" (PDF). Retrieved 2017-02-28.

[2] "WIAA 2019 Football Realignment Plan". 2 May 2018.

[3] ttps://www.wiaawi.org/News/NewsReleases/tabid/113/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/14854/Revised-Football-Only-Conference-Plan-Released.aspx ^{[
dead link]}

[fball-4] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ https://www.wiaawi.org/Portals/0/PDF/Results/Football/State_Records/teamchamps.pdf ^{[
bare URL PDF]}

[bgolf-5] ttps://www.wiaawi.org/Portals/0/PDF/Results/Golf_Boys/teamchamps.pdf ^{[
bare URL PDF]}

[soft-6] ttp://www.wiaawi.org/Portals/0/PDF/Results/Softball/State_Records/teamchamps.pdf ^{[
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[btrack-7] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k http://www.wiaawi.org/Portals/0/PDF/Results/Track/State_Records/bteamchamps.pdf ^{[
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[bbball-9] ttps://www.wiaawi.org/Portals/0/PDF/Results/Basketball_Boys/teamchamps.pdf ^{[
dead link]}

[10] "Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau vs Brillion (03/17/12 at Kohl Center - Madison, Wisconsin)".

[gbball-11] "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-02-28. Retrieved 2017-02-28.{{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title ( link)

[springbball-12] ttps://www.wiaawi.org/Portals/0/PDF/Results/Baseball_Spring/State_Records/teamchamps.pdf ^{[
bare URL PDF]}

[summerbball-13] ttps://www.wiaawi.org/Portals/0/PDF/Results/Baseball_Summer/State_Records/teamchamps.pdf ^{[
bare URL PDF]}

[boyscc-14] ttps://www.wiaawi.org/Portals/0/PDF/Results/Cross_Country/State_Records/bteamchamps.pdf ^{[
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[ggolf-15] ttps://www.wiaawi.org/Portals/0/PDF/Results/Golf_Girls/State_Records/teamchamps.pdf ^{[
bare URL PDF]}

[gym-16] ttps://www.wiaawi.org/Portals/0/PDF/Results/Gymnastics/State_Records/teamchamps.pdf ^{[
bare URL PDF]}

[ghky-17] ttps://www.wiaawi.org/Portals/0/PDF/Results/Hockey_Girls/State_Records/teamchamps.pdf ^{[
bare URL PDF]}

[wrest-18] ttp://www.wiaawi.org/Portals/0/PDF/Results/Wrestling/State%20Records/teamchamps.pdf ^{[
bare URL PDF]}

[19] "Noah Benish on Instagram: ""When they look back in the anals of history, people are gonna be talking about three things: The discovery of fire, invention of the submarine, and the Flint, Michigan Mega Bowl."-Jackie Moon #megabowl"".

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Schools

Former schools

State championships

Football

Boys' golf

Softball

Boys' Track & Field

Girls' Track & Field

Spring Baseball

State championship runners-up

Football

Boys' basketball

Girls' basketball

Spring baseball

Summer baseball

Boys' cross country

Girls' golf

Boys' golf

Gymnastics

Girls' hockey

Boys' Track & Field

Girls' Track & Field

Softball

Wrestling

The Vernon County Mega Bowl

Mega Bowl Game results

References

External links

Sports

Schools

Former schools

State championships

Football

Boys' golf

Softball

Boys' Track & Field

Girls' Track & Field

Spring Baseball

State championship runners-up

Football

Boys' basketball

Girls' basketball

Spring baseball

Summer baseball

Boys' cross country

Girls' golf

Boys' golf

Gymnastics

Girls' hockey

Boys' Track & Field

Girls' Track & Field

Softball

Wrestling

The Vernon County Mega Bowl

Mega Bowl Game results

References

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