River Valley Conference (Illinois)


The River Valley Conference is a high school sports Conference in northeastern and two high schools in a southern suburbs is "Illinois Lutheran and Beecher High School in Illinois, United States. The conference is part of the Illinois High School Association. The conference started around 1940 as the Kankakee Valley Conference, making up schools from the Kankakee County and Will County area. The conference had split into two divisions in 1953 to make football scheduling more manageable, but maintained the conference in basketball and other sports. With the Iroquois and Vermilion Valley conferences folding, the KVC took on some of their members, prompting the change to its current name. The biggest shift since then occurred in 2006, as its larger schools left to join schools with similar membership, leaving the RVC as a rural, smaller school conference.

Membership

Current

Former

Note: records before 1948-49 are incomplete. Some teams may have played in the conference before the date recorded, other schools may have played in the conference's early years.
SchoolLocationMascotColorsCountyYear JoinedPrevious ConferenceYear LeftConference Joined
BonfieldBonfieldBraves Kankakeepre-19401941none
Crete-Monee1CreteWarriors Will1940none 1962Southeast Suburban
R.U.C.E.2ReddickBulldogs Kankakee19441956Northeast
Bishop McNamara3KankakeeIrish Kankakeepre-19481989Chicago Catholic
Bradley-BourbonnaisBradleyBoilermakers Kankakeepre-19481962Southeast Suburban
GilmanGilmanOwls Iroquoispre-19481962Vermilion Valley
MantenoMantenoPanthers Kankakeepre-19482006Interstate 8
MomenceMomenceRedskins Kankakeepre-19482006Sangamon Valley
PeotonePeotoneBlue Devils Willpre-19482006Interstate 8
CentralCliftonComets Iroquois1950none 1980Wauseca
Herscher4HerscherTigers Kankakee1950Vermilion Valley2006Interstate 8

  1. Known as Crete until 1948.
  2. Known as Reddick until 1950.
  3. Known as St. Patrick until 1955.
  4. Herscher played concurrently in the KVC and VVC from 1950 to 1954.