10/3/2009 3:55:00 PM Prep league changes nothing new Wave sport changes have happened before
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Greenville’s Kami Berner (10) chases the ball during action in the varsity girls soccer match with Troy last week at Harmon Field. Green Wave sports teams have competed in various leagues and conferences through the years.
GREENVILLE - The current period of waiting for a decision from the Central Buckeye Conference (CBC) about adding Greenville, and West Carrollton, to the conference is a new situation for Green Wave prep athletics.
Now in the fourth year as a prep sports independent, Greenville was in some conference or league through the 2005-06 school year, and had been for decades before.
But the changing of location is nothing new for Wave sports, or any of the other seven area prep athletic programs covered currently by this newspaper.
Versailles moved to the Midwest Athletic Conference (MAC) for the 2000-2001 school year after a long stint in the now-defunct Stillwater Rivers Conference (SRC).
The other county schools (Ansonia, Arcanum, Bradford, Franklin Monroe, Mississinawa Valley and Tri-Village) have been in the Cross County Conference (CCC) for over 30 years, but Ansonia and Bradford came to the CCC from the MAC.
The CCC included Anna (for football and girls soccer only), early in the decade, all before that school moved to the MAC, but for football only. Anna is otherwise a member of the Shelby County League (SCL).
Miami East left the CBC for the CCC a few years ago, and was in the SRC with Versailles.
All of these details about the other schools go along with Greenville's wait for a planned CBC decision on the admission of Green Wave sports at the November conference meeting.
Prior affiliations for the school were the Mid-Miami Athletic League (MML), the Greater Western Ohio Conference (GWOC), the Greater Miami Valley Conference (GMVC), and going back many years, the Miami Valley League (MVL).
There were athletic successes, and challenges, in all of those situations, just as there has been some of both since Greenville has been an independent.
West Carrollton is in the same situation as the Wave athletes and teams, and Lehman Catholic, spurned by the MAC at the time Versailles was accepted, is still an independent, and a thriving athletic program at that.
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