This is big!
The 2014-2015 sports seasons will mark the final year that Rockford Area will compete as a member in the Central Minnesota Conference. They've been accepted into the Wright County Conference beginning in the fall of 2015.
Replacing Rockford Area will be Paynesville Area, who will leave the West Central Conference next summer. The Bulldogs have been in the WCC since the 1970s after they exited the now-defunct Central Gopher Conference.
I've said this for years now: "Keep calm and stay in the CMC" since my "Dairy Star Conference" idea fizzled back in 2009. It was just a matter of time before Rockford Area decided to make the switch to a bigger conference. How cool is this to trade a trip to Rockford with a trip to Paynesville for conference events! VERY COOL.