Skyline will be moving from the Mid-Lakes Conference to the Southwest Conference starting with the 2024-25 school year.
Skyline Athletic Director Jim Brown sent the following statement to OzarksSportsZone.com:
Skyline has accepted an invitation to join the Southwest Conference at the beginning of the ’24-’25 school year.
We are very appreciative of our long-time membership in the Mid-Lakes Conference, and still have good relationships with Clever, Fair Grove, Forsyth, and Strafford, but, especially with the addition of three new schools, that conference has simply outgrown us over the past several years. While our enrollment numbers have decreased in the past 5-7 years, all of those other schools in close proximity to Springfield and Branson have continued to grow in enrollment.
We will fall somewhere right in the middle of the pack, enrollment-wise, with the Southwest Conference schools. We look forward to re-kindling our relationship with several former MLC schools who are now SWC schools (Ash Grove, Marionville, Pleasant Hope, Stockton) and to developing new relationships with Diamond, Lockwood, Miller, Pierce City, and Sarcoxie.
