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Greenville quarterback Jacob Burk prepares to take the snap last Friday night at Harmon Field during the varsity football game against West Carrollton. Both schools have applied to join the Central Buckeye Conference (CBC), and are waiting for the conference vote in November.
GREENVILLE - Now beginning a fourth school year without a sports conference affiliation, Greenville Green Wave athletics is still enjoying a period of great success.
There has been a team state title (fastpitch softball in spring, 2007), an individual state champion (Kevin Leland in boys track in spring, 2009), and state appearances by athletes in other sports, and many winning teams.
But school officials are constantly working on finding a conference affiliation for the school's athletic teams, and achieving that is one of the stated goals of the school board for the 2009-10 school year.
Superintendent Susie Riegle confirmed this week that Greenville, along with West Carrollton, is under consideration by schools from the Central Buckeye Conference (CBC) to join the league, starting with the 2011-12 school year. 75 percent of conference schools must vote yes for schools to be added.
"I am cautiously optimistic," Riegle said about the school's application to join the conference. "We have been working continuously on this for some time, just "knocking on doors", and maintaining contacts with officials from schools at athetic events, functions, meetings and the like. I have been working on this personally, and I think this opportunity is best attributed to those efforts."
The addition of the two schools would grow the CBC to 14 schools, with the current roster being, in alphabetical order, Bellefontaine, Ben Logan, Graham, Greenon, Indiana Lake, Kenton Ridge, Springfield Northwestern, Springfield Shawnee, Stebbins, Tecumseh, Tippecanoe and Urbana.
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