East Suburban Catholic Conference
| East Suburban Catholic Conference | |
|---|---|
| ESCC | |
| Association | IHSA |
| Members | 10 |
| Region | Suburbs of Chicago, Illinois |
The East Suburban Catholic Conference (ESCC) is an athletic conference consisting of 10 Catholic high schools in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois (though despite its name, two schools are located in the city itself). The conference became independent in 1974.
While originally only supporting competition in men's sports, the conference began supporting women's athletics in 1991. Today, there are eleven women's teams and ten men's teams.
Despite not being as old as other conferences, and not having any women's sports until relatively recent history, the teams in the conference have finished in the top four of Illinois High School Association (IHSA) sponsored state tournaments 76 times in nine different sports.
Notre Dame and St. Patrick are all male institutions, and thus do not field women's teams. Three members (Bishop McNamara, Fenwick, and Providence) are coed schools whose men's teams compete in the Chicago Catholic League (CCL). Since the CCL does not sponsor competition for women, these schools are represented in the ESCC by their women's teams. The rest of the schools are coed, and are represented in the ESCC by both their men's and women's teams. Marian Central Catholic High School joined at the end of 2013-2014 football season has started playing in the conference for every other sport. They will compete in this conference for football in the 2014-2015 season.
Somewhat unusual by the standards of the metropolitan Chicago area, the conference is spread over a five county area. While most of the members are in Cook County, Bishop McNamra is in Kankakee County to Chicago's far south. Joliet Catholic and Providence are in Will County to Chicago's southwest. Benet Academy is in DuPage County which is to the west of Chicago. Carmel is far to the north in Lake County and Marian Central is in McHenry County which is far northwest of the city. The furthest schools (Carmel,Marian Central and Bishop McNamara) is approximately 100 miles (160.9 km).
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