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Olympia Leaves Illini Prairie Conference to Join Sangamo

The Illini Prairie Conference is going through some transition over the next few years.

 

The Conference voted to invite Paxton-Buckley-Loda (PBL) starting next school year and this week the Olympia School district has voted to leave the Illini Prairie Conference to join the Sangamo. Monticello Athletic Director Dan Sheehan says Olympia was one of three teams to receive an invite from the Sangamo Conference.

 

 

While finding an opponent for the 2022-2023 sports season seems like enough time, Sheehan says in his world, that isn't much time at all, similar to a situation Monticello faced this past winter when St. Thomas More High School abruptly went to 8-man football, leaving Illini Prairie Conference teams in a bind in a short amount of time.

 

 

It seems like ages ago, but it was just last February and March Monticello was scrambling to fill out their schedule for the football season this past fall. Sheehan put feelers out in Wisconsin, Kentucky and Iowa to find a football game for their team to have a 9-game schedule. 

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