Lake Suburban Conference

The Lake Suburban Conference was a high school athletic conference serving schools in the Indiana High School Athletic Association. The conference was formed in 1949 as the Calumet Athletic Conference, and disbanded in 1992. Most of its schools were located in Lake County, though two members during the CAC period were from Porter County.

History

The Calumet Athletic Conference was formed in 1949 by nine schools from Lake County. These schools were either Gary-Hammond metro area schools not involved in the Northern Indiana Conference, or suburban schools within the county. While membership did change, as three schools left to be Independent, two of those schools would return, along with other expansions, meant that two divisions would be utilized from 1963 to 1970.

1970 caused dramatic changes to the Calumet. Chesterton and Portage left to help found the Duneland Athletic Conference, Gary Wirt joined with the other Gary schools in the Northwestern Conference, and East Gary Edison became independent. Recently formed Munster was added, and the conference rebranded itself as the Lake Suburban Conference. Membership was much more stable, as the only change afterward was Merrillville leaving for the Duneland. However, by the early 1990s, suburban growth had caused the conference to become unbalanced enrollment-wise. This led to the 1993 breakup of the LSC. Crown Point would become the Duneland's 8th member. Lowell would join the Northwest Hoosier Conference, which had a wide footprint that Lowell was firmly in the middle of. Lake Central would play as an independent for the next decade, eventually taking former CAC member Hobart's place in the Duneland. The remaining four schools joined with the remnants of the Indiana Lake Shore Conference to form the Lake 10 Conference.

Membership

School	Location	Mascot	Colors	County	Year Joined	Previous Conference	Year Left	Conference Joined
Crown Point	Crown Point	Bulldogs		45 Lake	1949 1963	Independents	1953 1993	Independents Duneland
Dyer Central	Dyer	Indians		45 Lake	1949	Lake-Porter County	1966	none (consolidated into Lake Central)
Edison	East Gary	Fighting Eagles		45 Lake	1949	Lake-Porter County	1970	Independents
Gary Edison	Gary	Blazers		45 Lake	1949		1968	none (consolidated into Gary West Side)
Gary Wirt	Gary	Troopers		45 Lake	1949	Lake-Porter County	1970	Northwestern
Griffith	Griffith	Panthers		45 Lake	1949	Lake-Porter County	1993	Lake 10
Hobart	Hobart	Brickies		45 Lake	1949		1955	Independents
Lowell	Lowell	Red Devils		45 Lake	1949 1956	Independents	1955 1993	Independents Northwest Hoosier
Merrillville	Merrillville	Pirates		45 Lake	1949	Lake-Porter County	1975	Duneland
Portage	Portage	Indians		64 Porter	1949	Lake-Porter County	1970	Duneland
Highland	Highland	Trojans		45 Lake	1962	Independents	1993	Lake 10
Calumet	Gary	Warriors		45 Lake	1963	Independents	1993	Lake 10
Chesterton	Chesterton	Trojans		64 Porter	1963	Independents	1970	Duneland
Lake Central	St. John	Indians		45 Lake	1966	none (new school)	1993	Independent
Munster	Munster	Mustangs		45 Lake	1970	Independents	1993	Lake 10

Divisions 1963-70

North	South
Calumet	Crown Point
Chesterton	Dyer Central (63-66)/ Lake Central (66-70)
Edison	Griffith
Gary Edison (63-68)	Highland
Gary Wirt	Lowell
Portage	Merrillville

Boys State Champions

• Swimming (8): 1973-Munster, 1974-Munster, 1975-Munster, 1976-Munster, 1977-Munster, 1979-Munster, 1980-Munster, 1987-Lake Central
• Tennis (1): 1971-Crown Point

Girls State Champions

• Basketball (2): 1984-Crown Point, 1985-Crown Point
• Softball (1): 1992-Lake Central
• Swimming (3): 1976-Munster, 1977-Munster, 1978-Munster

Related links

• Northern Indiana Football History
• Indiana High School Athletic Association