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| Thursday September 02, 2010 | Dailycall.com |
| 11/5/2009 8:47:00 AM | Email this article • Print this article | They're back
Greenville returns to GWOC North
By Ron Greeson
Brown News Service
GREENVILLE - They're back!
Greenville returned to the Greater Western Ohio Conference (GWOC) on Wednesday, as conference officials voted on bringing Green Wave sports back into the North Division of the conference, where Greenville, competed for four years, from the 2001-02 school year through 2004-05.
The decision reunites Greenville with long-time conference schools Trotwood-Madison, Piqua, Troy, Sidney and Vandalia-Butler, and five of Greenville's 10 football games will be versus these schools in GWOC North Division games.
But the conference affiliation will affect every Wave sport, at varsity, junior varsity and freshman levels in grades 9-12, as well as junior high teams.
Plus, regular scheduling of conference competition gives a form and regularity to that scheduling, and provides goals and honors for outstanding athletes, coaches and teams.
These are positives all around, and superintendent Susie Riegle, who had been heavily involved in seeking an affiliation for a long time, was very pleased about the decision, and the future for Wave sports in particular, and the GWOC affiliation on the school system as a whole.
"It's (the affiliation) great for the kids, the community, and the school system as a whole," Riegle said by phone after returning from a GWOC luncheon after the meeting which voted Greenville back in. "We are back in, in the North Division, and I think it is a good fit.
"West Carrollton was accepted into the South Division. We are the second largest school in that (North) division, in terms of enrollment, so I think that puts us in a good position."
She also expressed the opinion that rejoining a conference with long-time rival schools is a huge plus.
"The schools in our division (GWOC North) like to compete with Greenville, those schools wanted us back in the conference with them, and we wanted to be there. I am so happy that it worked out this way."
She said that, at the time of the conversation, she was not aware of the all of the details of what teams would compete in the GWOC during the upcoming 2010-11 school year, but that "teams will be phased in
as quickly as possible, according to the conference."
Football, however, will not be back in the conference until the fall,
2012 season, due to the unique scheduling challenges that the sport
presents, meaning two more seasons as a football independent for the
Green Wave.
Part of the already-scheduled Fall Sports Awards event Wednesday
night in the Greenville high school gymnasium was devoted to the
decision of the GWOC to add Greenville, with scheduled talks from
Riegle and GWOC commissioner Eric Spahr.
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