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Greater Western Ohio Conference (GWOC) commissioner Eric Spahr is pictured with the superintendent of the Greenville City School, Susie Riegle, Wednesday night in the Greenville high school gymnasium. Spahr came to the Fall Sports Award Meeting to announce that Greenville has been accepted as a new member of the conference.
GREENVILLE - Greenville prep sports returned to the Greater Western Ohio Conference (GWOC) on Wednesday, as conference officials voted on bringing Green Wave sports back into the North Division of the conference, where Greenville sports competed for four years, from the 2001-02 school year through 2004-05.
The decision reunites Greenville with long-time conference schools Trotwood-Madison, Piqua, Troy, Sidney and Vandalia-Butler, and five of Greenville's 10 football games will be versus these schools in GWOC North Division games.
But the conference affiliation will affect every Wave sport, at varsity, junior varsity and freshman levels in grades nine through 12, as well as junior high teams.
Plus, regular scheduling of conference competition gives a form and regularity to that scheduling, and provides goals and honors for outstanding athletes, coaches and teams.
These are positives all around, and superintendent Susie Riegle, who had been heavily involved in seeking an affiliation for a long time, was very pleased about the decision, and the future for Wave sports in particular, and the GWOC affiliation on the school system as a whole.
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