Anamosa Blue Raiders Personal - Team bests UPDATED 7-27-2013

Drake Relays Champions
2008 Boys High Jump High School Kelly, Colten Anamosa _ 6-09.00 _
1980 Boys Discus Throw High School Beadle, Joseph Anamosa _ 172-03 _
1980 Boys Shot Put High School Beadle, Joe Anamosa _ 55-05
History of the WaMaC Conference
The WaMaC Conference stemmed from the Tri Valley Conference which was formed November 4,
1931 and consisted of Independence, Manchester, Marion, and Vinton. Later Cedar Falls and Wilson
High School of Cedar Rapids were added.
On April 12, 1940, a Mid-Six Conference was formed with Anamosa, Manchester, Marion, Monticello,
and Tipton. Vinton and Independence were added on February 4, 1942 and the conference name
changed to the Tri-River Conference. On April 14, 1943 the Tri-River Conference changed it's name to
the WaMac Conference in reference to the three rivers that drain the area--Wa for Wapsipinicon; Ma
for Maquoketa; and C for Cedar.
The conference had sports participation in football, basketball, and track throughout it's entire life span.
Wrestling was added in the 1958-59 school year with the first boys gold meet and summer baseball
play begun in 1965. Competition on the conference level in cross country started in 1968. Girls
athletics began to appear with the first track meet taking place in 1973; girls basketball arrived in 1974-
75 and a golf meet was officially recognized in 1974. The traveling trophy, compiled on the finished of
each school in the entire sports competition was first given in the Spring of 1970.
In recent years South Tama and Don Bosco have both come and went in regards to participation in the
WaMaC Conference. Both teams left the WaMaC conference in 2003. That was the same year that
Western Dubuque, Central Clinton of DeWitt, Maquoketa, and Dyersville Beckman left the now
defunct Big Bend Conference and joined the WaMaC Conference.
At the start of 2007 the WaMac Conference added Center Point-Urbana and Anamosa from the Tri -
Rivers Conference. Both school districts sighted better opportunities with more compatible scheduling
as reasons for joining.
With the beginning of the school year in 2008, the WaMaC Conference blossumed to a 16-team
conference with the addition of four teams. Mount Vernon, Clear Creek-Amana, Williamsburg, and
Solon all joined after leaving the Eastern Iowa Hawkeye Conference.
Today's WaMaC Conference currently has eight teams in the East and West Divisions.
WaMaC Athletics Inaugural Seasons
Football (1931, District Football; 1992)
Boys' Basketball (1931)
Boys Track (1931)
Wrestling (1958)
Baseball (1965)
Cross Country (1968)
Girls' Track (1973)
Softball (1973)
Girls Basketball (1974)
Girls Golf (1974)
Volleyball (1996)