Three Rivers Athletic Conference

Three Rivers Athletic Conference

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Classification	OHSAA Divisions I & II
Region	Ohio
Sports fielded	Football, Cross Country, Golf, Soccer, Tennis, Basketball, Gymnastics, Swimming and Diving, Wrestling, Baseball, Softball, Track and Field
Founded	2011
Members
No. of members	10
Official website
http://www.tracsports.org
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The Three Rivers Athletic Conference is an Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA) high school athletic conference that began athletic competition in 2011 and has 10 high schools from Northwest Ohio, seven of which are from the Toledo metropolitan area, and one each from the cities of Findlay, Fremont and Lima. Ken Myers, former director of public safety and public services in Fremont, is the league's inaugural commissioner. The three rivers from which the conference derives its name are the Maumee, Sandusky, and Blanchard.

Members

School	Nickname	Location	Colors	Type	Join Date
Central Catholic	Fighting Irish	Toledo	Scarlet, Gray	Parochial	2011
Clay	Eagles	Oregon	Green, Yellow	Public	2011
Findlay	Trojans	Findlay	Blue, Gold	Public	2011
Fremont Ross	Little Giants	Fremont	Purple, White	Public	2011
Lima Senior	Spartans	Lima	Scarlet, Gray	Public	2011
Notre Dame	Eagles	Toledo	Blue, Gold	Parochial (Girls)	2011
St. Francis de Sales	Knights	Toledo	Red, Blue	Parochial (Boys)	2011
St. John's Jesuit	Titans	Toledo	Blue, Vegas Gold	Parochial (Boys)	2011
St. Ursula	Arrows	Toledo	Blue, Gold	Parochial (Girls)	2011
Whitmer	Panthers	Toledo	Maize, Blue	Public	2011

History

The Three Rivers Athletic Conference began its inaugural season in the fall of 2011. The idea for the creation of the league was brought about following Toledo Public Schools' decisions to close Libbey High School and athletic cuts within TPS which were made by the system to offset a reported $39 million budget deficit. In May 2010, the Toledo Public School board of education voted to cut all junior high (seventh and eighth grade) and freshman sports, as well as the discontinuation of boys tennis, cross country, golf, ice hockey and wrestling. This caused concern for the non-TPS members, who wanted to have competition in those sports and at those levels without struggling to find games.

Clay High School, who joined the Toledo City League in 2003, were the first school to announce that they would leave following a unanimous vote of 5–0 by the Oregon School District in mid July 2010. Following Clay's decision, TCL members Central Catholic, Notre Dame, St. Francis de Sales, St. John's Jesuit, St. Ursula and Whitmer all announced that they would leave the City League as well. Fremont Ross, who was to join the City League in 2011, as well as Findlay and Lima Senior were also announced as members of the new league.

Near the end of July 2010, the new league's members announced that Three Rivers Athletic Conference was chosen to be the name for the conference. The name represents the Northwest Ohio rivers - the Maumee, the Sandusky and the Blanchard - which are part of the collective geography of the 10 inaugural member schools. Other names considered for the new league included Toledo Metro Athletic Conference, the Greater Metro Athletic Conference and the Northwest Athletic Conference. Each member of the TRAC will be asked to submit a logo design for the league and the conference's ten principals will make a decision on which logo will be chosen for the league.

Although he indicated that joining the TRAC was "probably off the table", Marion Harding athletic director Gary Miller mentioned that his school did apply for admission into the new league as an alternative to being independent in the future. Marion Harding remained members of the Greater Buckeye Conference with Findlay, Fremont Ross, and Lima Senior through the 2010-11 school year.

Competition format

The TRAC will play a standard seven-game varsity football schedule in weeks 4-10 of the season, with each of the eight schools that have varsity football playing non-league games in the first three weeks of the football season.

Hockey will be contested outside of the conference umbrella. The hockey teams will retain their membership in the three-tiered Northwest Hockey Conference.

The TRAC will have championship competition for football and all of its other sanctioned sports.

League championships

Boys championships

School Year	Football	Soccer	Cross Country	Golf	Basketball	Wrestling	Swimming/Diving	Baseball	Track & Field	Tennis
2011-12	Whitmer	St. John's	St. Francis	Findlay	Whitmer	Clay	St. Francis	St. John's	Whitmer	St. John's
2012-13	Whitmer	St. John's	St. Francis	Findlay	St. John's	Clay	St. Francis	Central Catholic	Whitmer	St. John's
2013-14	Central Catholic	St. John's	St. Francis	St. John's	Central Catholic	Clay	St. Francis	St. John's	Whitmer	St. John's
2014-15	Central Catholic	Findlay, St. Francis, St. John's (co-champs)	St. John's	St. John's	St. John's	Clay	St. Francis		St. John's	St. John's
2015-16		Findlay			Lima Senior
2016-17
2017-18
2018-19
2019-20
2020-21

Girls championships

School Year	Volleyball	Soccer	Cross Country	Golf	Tennis	Basketball	Gymnastics	Swimming/Diving	Softball	Track & Field
2011-12	St. Ursula	Central Catholic	Notre Dame	St. Ursula	St. Ursula	Notre Dame	Clay	St. Ursula	Central Catholic	Notre Dame
2012-13	St. Ursula	Clay	Notre Dame	St. Ursula	Notre Dame	Notre Dame	Findlay	Fremont Ross	Clay	Notre Dame
2013-14	St. Ursula	Notre Dame	Clay	St. Ursula	Notre Dame	Notre Dame	Findlay	Fremont Ross	Clay	Notre Dame
2014-15	St. Ursula	Clay	Clay	St. Ursula	Notre Dame	Notre Dame, Central Catholic (co-champs)	Findlay	Notre Dame		Clay
2015-16
2016-17
2017-18
2018-19
2019-20
2020-21

References

• Official Site of the TRAC