Marawood Conference


The Marawood Conference is a high school athletic conference with its membership concentrated in north central Wisconsin. It was founded in 1949 and all member schools are affiliated with the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association.

History

1949-1972

The Marawood Conference was founded in 1949 by seven small high schools in north central Wisconsin: Athens, Auburndale, Edgar, Marathon, Pittsville, Rudolph, and Stratford. These schools were all former members of the Marathon County League and Wood County League, and the name of the conference reflects the location of its original member schools. Membership remained consistent through the first thirteen years of the conference's history, with the first changes coming in 1962. Rudolph High School closed and was consolidated into Wisconsin Rapids, and two schools joined after the dissolution of the 3-C Conference. The conference sponsored their first football league for the 1964 season, and five schools were part of the inaugural roster. Abbotsford moved over from the Cloverbelt Conference in 1966, increasing the roster to nine schools. That number jumped to eleven in 1970 when two schools who were displaced by their conferences disbanding entered: Nekoosa from the Vacationland Conference and Rib Lake from the Flambeau League.

1972-2008

Granton left to join the Central State Conference in 1972, bringing membership back down to ten schools. They would rejoin in 1976, replacing the departing Auburndale and Nekoosa, who both moved on to the Lumberjack Conference. Two years later, Prentice would join from the Lakeland Conference, and the conference's stable would stay intact for just over two decades until three new schools were added in 2000: Assumption in Wisconsin Rapids, Columbus Catholic in Marshfield, and Newman Catholic in Wausau. These schools were recent additions to the WIAA after the merger with WISAA, and all were previously members of the Central Wisconsin Catholic Conference. Auburndale would also reenter the Marawood Conference that year, and a fifteenth member school would join in 2005. The Marawood Conference would split into North and South Divisions to accommodate the recent expansion:
North DivisionSouth Division
AbbotsfordAssumption
AthensAuburndale
EdgarColumbus Catholic
MarathonGranton
Newman CatholicNorthland Lutheran
PrenticePittsville
Rib LakeSpencer
Stratford

2008-present

In 2008, Park Falls and Phillips joined the Marawood Conference after the Lumberjack Conference ceased operations. They joined the North Division, with Edgar, Marathon and Newman Catholic moving to the South Division. These three schools replaced Columbus Catholic, Granton and Spencer, all of whom joined the Cloverbelt Conference. In 2009, Park Falls was merged with Glidden of the Indianhead Conference to form Chequamegon, who inherited Park Falls' Marawood Conference membership. Divisional alignment remained intact for the next five years before Edgar was moved back to the North Division. This lasted for three years before moving back to the South Division to replace two schools that left to join the Central Wisconsin Conference: Northland Lutheran and Pittsville. Currently, the Marawood Conference has twelve members in the following alignment:
North DivisionSouth Division
AbbotsfordAssumption
AthensAuburndale
ChequamegonEdgar
PhillipsMarathon
PrenticeNewman Catholic
Rib LakeStratford

Football (2008-present)

In 2008, the Marawood Conference lost five football-playing members: Spencer/Columbus to the Cloverbelt Conference and four schools to the new Cloverwood Conference, a partnership between the four Marawood and six schools affiliated with the Cloverbelt. This arrangement lasted through the 2019 season, around the same time a comprehensive realignment plan was released by the WIAA and Wisconsin Football Coaches Association to begin with the 2020 season and run on a two-year realignment cycle. Five full Marawood members were joined by three Cloverbelt schools to form the 2020-2021 roster. Before the 2021 season could begin, three schools decided to transition to eight-player football and left the conference, with their games counting as losses by forfeit in the standings. For the 2022-2023 competition cycle, Pittsville joined the remaining five schools from the 2021 season and the Marawood formed a scheduling alliance with the Central Wisconsin Conference's small-school division. In 2024, the Marawood Conference lost two members to the Central Wisconsin Conference's large-school division, replacing them with three schools from the CWC's small-school division and full members Assumption. This alignment is set to remain in place until the 2026-2027 realignment cycle, when Assumption and Rosholt switch to eight-player football, and the Loyal/Greenwood football cooperative set to join as their replacements.

Membership timeline

Full members


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Football members


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List of state champions

Fall sports

SchoolYearDivision
Edgar1983Class C
Prentice1985Class C
Prentice1986Class C
Prentice1987Class C
Edgar1988Class C
Edgar2008Division 3
Edgar2009Division 3

SchoolYearDivision
Abbotsford1981Class C
Abbotsford1982Class C
Abbotsford1983Class C
Abbotsford1997Division 4
Abbotsford1998Division 4
Abbotsford1999Division 4
Abbotsford2001Division 4
Newman Catholic2013Division 4
Newman Catholic2014Division 4
Newman Catholic2015Division 4
Newman Catholic2016Division 4

Winter sports

SchoolYearDivision
Prentice1981Class C
Prentice1989Class C
Prentice1992Division 4
Marathon1998Division 3
Newman Catholic2002Division 3
Newman Catholic2010Division 4
Newman Catholic2011Division 5
Assumption2015Division 5
Assumption2016Division 5
Assumption2021Division 5

Spring sports

SchoolYearDivision
Assumption2014Division 4

SchoolYearDivision
Marathon1990Class C
Athens2005Division 3
Newman Catholic2006Division 3
Newman Catholic2007Division 3
Stratford2008Division 3
Edgar2012Division 3
Marathon2015Division 3
Marathon2016Division 3

List of conference champions

Boys Basketball

Source:
SchoolQuantityYears
Marathon301951, 1952, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1991, 1992, 1995, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2022, 2023, 2024
Stratford161952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2005, 2006, 2019, 2020, 2025
Edgar131958, 1959, 1960, 1972, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1988, 2016, 2017, 2021
Auburndale111957, 1962, 1963, 1971, 2003, 2004, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2018
Pittsville101961, 1965, 1966, 1990, 1993, 1994, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2007
Prentice91989, 1990, 1999, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
Abbotsford81969, 1970, 1978, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2014
Rib Lake71987, 2001, 2009, 2018, 2020, 2024, 2025
Assumption42007, 2008, 2009, 2017
Athens41950, 2021, 2022, 2023
Spencer31963, 1964, 2007
Phillips22015, 2019
Columbus Catholic12008
Nekoosa11973
Rudolph11950
Chequamegon0
Granton0
Newman Catholic0
Northland Lutheran0
Park Falls0

Girls Basketball

Source:
SchoolQuantityYears
Prentice221980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2017, 2019
Assumption112002, 2008, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Newman Catholic112002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2019, 2020
Marathon91992, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
Rib Lake91974, 1976, 1977, 1978, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2018
Abbotsford71975, 1978, 1979, 1983, 1984, 1985, 2013
Phillips62020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Athens51985, 1990, 2014, 2015, 2023
Pittsville52003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
Stratford32000, 2001, 2021
Auburndale22016, 2021
Edgar22008, 2016
Spencer11995
Chequamegon0
Columbus Catholic0
Granton0
Nekoosa0
Northland Lutheran0
Park Falls0

Football

Source:
SchoolQuantityYears
Edgar301966, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024
Stratford221965, 1967, 1971, 1976, 1978, 1983, 1986, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2013, 2016, 2019
Auburndale91965, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1974, 1975, 2002, 2022
Marathon81973, 1976, 1977, 1981, 1983, 1993, 2013, 2015
Spencer51964, 1965, 1966, 1980, 1982
Colby32020, 2021, 2022
Pittsville21978, 1990
Nekoosa11971
Abbotsford0
Assumption0
Athens0
Butternut0
Chequamegon0
Columbus Catholic0
Iola-Scandinavia0
McDonell Central Catholic0
Newman Catholic0
Owen-Withee0
Pacelli0
Phillips0
Prentice0
Rib Lake0
Rib Lake/
Prentice		0
Rosholt0
Spencer/
Columbus Catholic 		0
Thorp0
Tomahawk0