{"id":8306,"date":"2017-05-22T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T15:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=8306"},"modified":"2017-05-21T17:16:10","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T22:16:10","slug":"baxter-collins-maxwell-separately-joining-iowa-star-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/05\/baxter-collins-maxwell-separately-joining-iowa-star-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Baxter, Collins-Maxwell separately joining Iowa Star Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Pulled out of the drafts folder from months ago. \u2014 Ed.)<\/em><\/p>\n

I don’t dip into all the “conference realignment” on the high school level, mostly because there’s so much<\/em> of it going on right now. In this case, it relates to the breakup of CMB athletics that I’ve been following, and also involves North Tama’s current conference.<\/p>\n

Baxter has adopted the nickname of the Bolts<\/a> (despite being the Bulldogs pre-sharing) and Collins-Maxwell will be the Spartans<\/a>. Those were announced at the end of last year. Both will play 8-man football. What I missed was that each school is going to join the Iowa Star Conference.<\/p>\n

When North Tama left the NICL for the Iowa Star in 2003, it was the southernmost school in a conference basically centered around Waterloo. Since then, it’s grown outward, but it also has divisions. These additions create a conference that spreads from the Minnesota border to the fringes of the Des Moines metro area. It’s nearly an hour from Riceville to the next nearest schools, Clarksville and Tripoli.<\/p>\n

(And that LOGO…woof.<\/a> Give me 30 minutes in Illustrator.)<\/p>\n

The Iowa Star Conference will have 15 teams for one year, before CAL High School closes in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Pulled out of the drafts folder from months ago. \u2014 Ed.) I don’t dip into all the “conference realignment” on the high school level, mostly because there’s so much of it going on right now. In this case, it relates … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8781,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8306\/revisions\/8781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}