GREENVILLE - The current consideration of expansion by the Greater Western Ohio Conference (GWOC) is just the latest in a series of changes that began soon after the conference was formed for the 2001-02 school year.
It has been a decade of change since the conference was originally formed in the late nineties, and there is a third, unnamed school that conference officials will be considering at the next regular monthly meeting.
Greenville was an original member of the seven-school North (then called the Western) Division of the GWOC, with the current five schools in that division, plus Northmont.
The other seven schools in the Central/South Division (then called the Eastern) were Centerville, Wayne, Fairmont, Beavercreek, Xenia, plus the not-yet consolidated schools of Springfield South and Springfield North.
Greenville went to the Mid-Miami Athletic League (MML) for the 2005-06 school year, and has been an independent since.
Later, Fairborn, Lebanon, Springboro and Miamisburg came from the disbanded MML to form the GWOC South, with Xenia going to the South, and Northmont taking the Xenia slot in the Central Division with holdovers Centerville, Wayne, Fairmont and Beavercreek.
North and South combined to form the single Springfield High School, and the GWOC went from 17 to 16 schools, setting up the current decision to consider going to 18 schools, in three equal divisions of six schools.
West Carrollton has been an independent since the MML folded.
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