The Cahokia Conference is a high school

High school

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 athletic and competitive activity organization which consists of 12 schools in southwestern Illinois

Illinois

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, near St. Louis

St. Louis, Missouri

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. All of the schools are located in St. Clair

St. Clair County, Illinois

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, Randolph

Randolph County, Illinois

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, Monroe

Monroe County, Illinois

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, and Clinton

Clinton County, Illinois

-Demographics: As of the census of 2000, there were 35,535 people, 12,754 households, and 9,221 families residing in the county. The population density was 75 people per square mile . There were 13,805 housing units at an average density of 29 per square mile...

 counties.

Two schools, Valmeyer and Steeleville, were added for the 2006–07 season. The addition split the conference into two divisions, the Mississippi and the Kaskaskia.

Mississippi Division

School	Team Name	Town	School Population (2009–10)	IHSA Classes*
Breese Central High School	Cougars	Breese Breese, Illinois Breese is a large town in Clinton County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 4,221 which the majority are of German ancestry.-History:...	593	A, 1A, 2A
Carlyle High School	(Lady) Indians	Carlyle Carlyle, Illinois Carlyle is a city in Clinton County, Illinois, United States. The population was 3,406 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Clinton County.Carlyle is located approximately 50 miles east of St...	380	A, 1A, 2A
Columbia High School Columbia High School (Columbia, Illinois) Columbia High School is a public high school in Columbia, Illinois. It is part of Columbia Community Unit School District 4.-Mission:"The mission of Columbia High School is to provide a quality educational program that encourages educational excellence in a safe environment and prepares students...	Eagle Eagle Eagles are members of the bird family Accipitridae, and belong to several genera which are not necessarily closely related to each other. Most of the more than 60 species occur in Eurasia and Africa. Outside this area, just two species can be found in the United States and Canada, nine more in... s	Columbia Columbia, Illinois Columbia is a city in Monroe and St. Clair County in the U.S. state of Illinois, about south of St. Louis, Missouri. The population was 7,922 at the 2000 census.-History:...	599	A, 1A, 2A
Freeburg High School Freeburg High School Freeburg Community High School is a high school located in Freeburg, Illinois, United States.Freeburg Community High School was founded in 1904 as a two year school and graduated its first class of four students in 1906. In 1923, after converting to a traditional four year high school, two students...	(Lady) Midget Midget A midget is a short person with relatively average bodily proportions in comparison with other human beings. The term is often improperly used to describe a person with the medical condition dwarfism. The two terms are often used synonymously because both terms originate as words defining small... s	Freeburg Freeburg, Illinois Freeburg is a village in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States. As of 2010, Freeburg had a population of 4,354.-History:Freeburg lies in the fertile and rolling southern Illinois plains between the Kaskaskia and Mississippi Rivers. It was platted in 1836 as the town of Urbana by immigrants to...	696	A, 1A, 2A
Red Bud High School	Musketeer Musketeer A musketeer was an early modern type of infantry soldier equipped with a musket. Musketeers were an important part of early modern armies, particularly in Europe. They sometimes could fight on horseback, like a dragoon or a cavalryman... s	Red Bud Red Bud, Illinois Red Bud is a city in Randolph County, Illinois. The population was 3,422 at the 2000 census.It is the home of the of Southwestern Illinois College.-Geography:Red Bud is located at ....	427	A, 1A, 2A
Wesclin High School	Warrior Warrior A warrior is a person skilled in combat or warfare, especially within the context of a tribal or clan-based society that recognizes a separate warrior class.-Warrior classes in tribal culture:... s	Trenton Trenton, Illinois Trenton is a town in Clinton County, Illinois, United States. The population was 3,184 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Trenton is located at ....	420	A, 1A, 2A

Kaskaskia Division

School	Team Name	Town	School Population (2009–10)	IHSA Classes*
Dupo High School	Tiger Tiger The tiger is the largest cat species, reaching a total body length of up to and weighing up to . Their most recognizable feature is a pattern of dark vertical stripes on reddish-orange fur with lighter underparts... s	Dupo Dupo, Illinois Dupo is a village in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States. The population was 3,933 at the 2000 census. The village was settled in about 1750 and was incorporated in 1876. Its name is derived from Prairie du Pont .-Geography:...	329	A, 1A, 1A
Lebanon High School Lebanon High School (Illinois) Lebanon High School is the public high school of Lebanon Community Unit School District 9 in Lebanon, Illinois.-Athletics:Lebanon competes in the Cahokia Conference, and is a member of the Illinois High School Association , the organization which governs most sports and competitive activities...	Greyhound Greyhound The Greyhound is a breed of sighthound that has been primarily bred for coursing game and racing, and the breed has also recently seen a resurgence in its popularity as a pedigree show dog and family pet. It is a gentle and intelligent breed... s	Lebanon Lebanon, Illinois Lebanon is a city in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States. The population was 3,523 at the 2000 census. Like many other places in "Little Egypt" or Southern Illinois, Lebanon was named after the Middle Eastern country of the same name. It is a part of the Metro-East region of the Greater St...	216	A, 1A, 1A
Marissa High School	Meteor METEOR METEOR is a metric for the evaluation of machine translation output. The metric is based on the harmonic mean of unigram precision and recall, with recall weighted higher than precision... s	Marissa Marissa, Illinois Marissa is a village in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States. The population was 2,141 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Marissa is located at ....	172	A, 1A, 1A
New Athens High School	Yellow Jackets/Lady Jackets	New Athens New Athens, Illinois New Athens is a village in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States. Based upon common usage, the 'A' is always sounded with a long vowel, rather than a short vowel, by its residents, unlike the most commonly used English pronunciation of the city in Greece....	176	A, 1A, 1A
Steeleville High School	(Lady) Warriors	Steeleville Steeleville, Illinois Steeleville is a village in Randolph County, Illinois, United States. The population was 2,077 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , of which, of it is land and 0.76% is water...	147	A, 1A, 1A
Valmeyer High School	Pirates	Valmeyer Valmeyer, Illinois Valmeyer is a village in Monroe County, Illinois, United States, on the Mississippi River. The population was 1200 at the 2006 census.-History:...	145	A, 1A, 1A

*The class in which a school competes depends on the size of the school, and the particular sport or activity. Some activities compete in two classes, some in three, and some in four. The classes listed here are, respectively, the classes in which these schools compete in the 2, 3, and 4 class systems.

Sports

Each year a conference champion is determined in each division for volleyball

Volleyball

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, boy's and girl's basketball

Basketball

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, baseball

Baseball

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, and softball

Softball

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 by each division member playing round-robin home and away. The team with the best win–loss record is the champion.

For boy's and girl's golf

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 and boy's soccer one champion is determined by round–robin play, with each school in the conference playing each other once. The team with the best win–loss record is the champion.

Cross country

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 and track & field for boys and girls each have one champion determined by the winner of each sport's conference meet. The scholastic bowl

Quizbowl

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 champion is the winner of the conference tournament.

Like golf and soccer, the football

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 championship is determined based on round–robin play. However, only seven teams (the Mississippi division and Dupo) field football teams.

Breese (Central)

• 1989 Scholastic Bowl Runner-Up
• 1992 Volleyball Third Place
• 1996 Volleyball Champions
• 1999 Volleyball Third Place
• 2005 Volleyball Champions
• 2006 Volleyball Runner-Up
• 2007 Girls Basketball Champions
• 2007 Volleyball Champions

Carlyle

• 1981 Boys Baseball Champions
• 1988 Football Champions
• 1989 Boys Basketball Champions
• 1995 Girls Basketball Runner-Up
• 1996 Girls Basketball Champions
• 1997 Girls Basketball Champions

Columbia

• 1987 Baseball Champions
• 2005 Volleyball Runner-Up
• 2006 Girls Soccer Runner-Up
• 2006 Baseball Fourth Place
• 2007 Scholastic Bowl Runner-Up
• 2007 Baseball Champions
• 2007 Football Runner-Up
• 2008 Girls Soccer Third Place

Freeburg

Freeburg High School

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• 1956 Baseball Runner-Up
• 1977 Volleyball Third Place
• 1979 Volleyball Champions
• 1981 Volleyball Fourth Place
• 1982 Volleyball Champions
• 1985 Softball Champions
• 1989 Baseball Champions
• 2002 Baseball Runner-Up
• 2003 Girls Track Champions
• 2004 Girls Track Champions
• 2005 Girls Track Third Place
• 2008 Volleyball Champions
• 2009 Volleyball Champions

Lebanon

• 1976 Boy's Cross Country Champions
• 1977 Boy's Track Runner-Up
• 1997 Softball Runner-Up

Trenton (Wesclin)

• 1981 Boys Cross Country Runner-Up
• 1982 Boys Cross Country Champions
• 1990 Boys Basketball Champions
• 2006 Baseball Runner-Up

Baseball Achievements

No other small school athletic conference in the state of Illinois has claimed as many state baseball championships as the Cahokia Conference. The list of championships by current member teams includes 7 years (1979, 1981, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1996, and 2007), as well as 9 runner-up performances (1948, 1956, 1978, 1990, 1993, 2002, 2006, 2008, and 2009), and one fourth place (2006).

2005 Volleyball Championship

In the 2005 state volleyball tournament Breese Central defeated Columbia in the championship match. This was the first time in IHSA Volleyball history that two teams from the same conference met in the title match. Ironically, the conference champion of 2005 was Freeburg, which had moved to class AA and won the first ever AA regional for a school from this conference.