Southern Connecticut Conference

The Southern Connecticut Conference (SCC) is a high school athletics conference in Connecticut. The conference comprises schools located along the Long Island Sound. The SCC is composed of 22 high schools, representing 16 communities, with over 23,000 students.

History

The Southern Connecticut Conference was formed in 1994, when 20 high schools, from four different leagues, came together:

1. All-Connecticut Conference: Fairfield Prep, Mercy, Notre Dame (West Haven), Sacred Heart, and Xavier;
2. District League: Hamden, Hillhouse, West Haven, and Wilbur Cross;
3. Housatonic League: Amity, Branford, Cheshire, Derby, East Haven, Lyman Hall, North Haven, Sheehan, and Shelton;
4. Shoreline Conference: Guilford and Hand.

The league's Board of Governors decided on a three-divisional format, electing to name each division after Native American rivers (the Hammonasset, Housatonic, and Quinnipiac Rivers) located in the Southern Connecticut region:

1. Hammonasset: Branford, East Haven, Guilford, Hand, Hillhouse, and North Haven;
2. Housatonic: Amity, Cheshire, Derby, Lyman Hall, Sheehan, and Shelton;
3. Quinnipiac: Fairfield Prep, Hamden, Mercy, Notre Dame (West Haven), Sacred Heart, West Haven, Wilbur Cross, and Xavier.

Expansion

In 1998, Career High School of New Haven joined the conference and was placed in the Housatonic Division. In 2004, the league again expanded when the Board of Governors voted to accept two Milford-based schools, Foran and Jonathan Law. Also in 2004, Bill O'Brien stepped down after serving 10 years as SCC Commissioner. He was replaced by Al Carbone. The SCC, having expanded to 23 member schools, decided to realign its divisional format for the 2004/2005 academic year. The league added a fourth division, Oronoque, also named after a Native American river in Southern Connecticut. The SCC also decided to realign its football-playing schools, primarily based on student enrollment. . In 2009, Derby left the SCC to join the Naugatuck Valley League leaving the league with 22 member schools.

Objectives

As stated in the league's constitution, the purpose of the SCC is to provide a central organization though which member schools may cooperate in order to promote the following ends:

• A) To insure a desirable interaction among the schools in the Conference;
• B) To develop intelligent recognition of the place of athletics in education of our youth;
• C) To establish and unify policies of administration in interscholastic athletics;
• D) To offer a system that will provide for equitable competition;
• E) To foster and promote the spirit of good sportsmanship and cultural diversity; and
• F) To offer a variety of interscholastic, non-athletic programs which foster the academic and leadership abilities of students.

Membership

Hammonasset Division

Housatonic Division

Oronoque Division

Quinnipiac Division

Sports

SCC member schools participate in the following 20 sports throughout the academic year.

External links

• Southern Conference Connecticut Website