The North Shore Conference is entering yet another chapter of change. The WIAA Board of Control’s March meeting brought fresh realignment decisions that will reshape the conference’s membership — and for Whitefish Bay High School, the shifts mean a new-look league with some familiar neighbors returning and one longtime rival heading out the door. The changes will affect our state champion girls/boys basketball teams, state champion boys soccer team, and all other non-football sports.
The Board approved a plan that brings Menomonee Falls and Germantown into the North Shore Conference from the Greater Metro Conference, while sending Grafton the other direction out of the NSC and into the recently formed Glacier Trails Conference. Those moves are set to take effect for the 2027-28 school year.
For Whitefish Bay, the changes restore a connection with Germantown that has recent history, as Germantown moved from the old NSC to the Greater Metro in 2017. Menomonee Falls was briefly a NSC member once before, moving over from the Braveland Conference in 1993 before leaving in 1997.
When all the moves are finalized, the North Shore will be an eight team conference comprising Cedarburg, Germantown, Hartford, Homestead, Menomonee Falls, Nicolet, Slinger, and Whitefish Bay.
The loss of Grafton is the notable departure from Whitefish Bay’s perspective. Grafton has been a consistent NSC rival across multiple sports dating back to 1980, but its move to the Glacier Trails Conference aligns it with other similar sized Northern Milwaukee area programs.
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