5. Corn Bowl Conference - Iowa
Corn Bowl Conference
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You can make a bowl full of corn in just about any part of the United States. Just go to the grocery store. But in some parts of Iowa, you can just walk outside and pick some of your own corn and make the freshest corn bowl possible. It's a great league name based off the area's premier crop, and it's got a nice alliteration to it as well.
Local look: "The
Corn Bowl Conference is an eight-team league in northern Iowa featuring rural, farming communities. The school districts in the conference are made up of multiple small towns, most of which are less than 1,000 in population. The best idea of how many towns it takes to form a district now is by looking at West Fork -- the combination of Rockwell, Swaledale, Sheffield, Chapin, Meservey and Thornton. It used to be a big rivalry when Rockwell-Swaledale played S-C/M-T, but now the districts have merged. It's known for West Fork's dominant boys basketball program, which won the 2011 Class 2A state title and was the runner-up in 2013 and produced current Northern Iowa Panther Seth Tuttle."
- Jared Patterson, sports supervisor at the Globe Gazette in Mason City, Iowa (Facebook)Schools: West Fork (Sheffield),
North Butler (Greene),
Northwood-Kensett (Northwood),
Nashua-Plainfield (Nashua),
Rockford,
St. Ansgar,
Central Springs (Manly),
Riceville.
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