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The North Iowa Cedar League (NICL) is a high schoolathletic conference made up of 16 high schools in north central Iowa. Most of the schools compete as 2A schools, (the second-smallest classification). The conference's most recent expansions included: Columbus Catholic (2013), Sumner-Fredericksburg (2014), and Oelwein (2020). With the addition of Oelwein in the 2020 academic year, the conference will split into three divisions: East, Central, and West.
History
As of the late 1990s, the conference was a 17 team league. In 1998, Wapsie Valley High School and Jesup High School joined the conference. That same year, Ackley-Geneva and Wellsburg-Steamboat Rock merged districts to become AGWSR. The next membership change came in 2002 when Green Mountain-Garwin (GMG) departed for the Iowa Star Conference. The next year, North Tama left for the Iowa Star Conference. In 2007, Eldora-New Providence and Hubbard-Radcliffe joined districts to become South Hardin High School. For the 2008 year, West Marshall was added to the conference, making it a 15-team league. In 2011, South Tama joined after leaving the Little Hawkeye Conference and started in the West Division. It became the 16th member of the conference. Northern University High School (Cedar Falls) played its final season in 2011-12, due to the University of Northern Iowa closing Malcolm Price Lab, which houses Northern University High.[1]Waterloo Columbus joined in 2013 to replace the recently defunct NU High. With the departure of South Tama, Sumner-Fredericksburg joined in 2014 which brought the total number of schools to 16 once again. In 2020, West Marshall will leave the conference for the Little Hawkeye Conference. Oelwein will join soon after to replace West Marshall and a new three division structure will ensue.