North Coast League
| North Coast League | |
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| Data | |
| Classification | OHSAA Division II, III, and IV |
| Established | 1984 |
| Members | 13 |
| Sports fielded | 10 boys and 9 girls |
| State Championships | 49 |
| Country | United States |
| Region | Midwest |
| States | 1 - Ohio |
The North Coast League (NCL) is a high school athletic conference for Catholic schools in Greater Cleveland, Ohio.
The North Coast League was founded by six parochial high schools in 1984. Its original members were Cleveland Central Catholic, Holy Name. Lake Catholic, Padua Franciscan, St. Peter Chanel, and Trinity. Notre Dame-Cathedral Latin (1991) and Elyria Catholic (1995) joined the league shortly after it was founded. The schools were then separated into two four-team divisions based on enrollment. Villa Angela-St. Joseph joined the league in 2004 and Archbishop Hoban in 2005, but Cleveland Central Catholic left, creating unevenly sized divisions. Central Catholic re-joined the league in 2006, creating a balanced ten-team lineup.
In 2011, the NCL added Beaumont, Benedictine, Walsh Jesuit, and Warren John F. Kennedy high schools. Elyria Catholic left the league to join the West Shore Conference. Benedictine is an all-boys school and Beaumont is an all-girls school, so twelve schools compete in most sports, in two divisions of six schools each.
St. Peter Chanel left the North Coast League on July 1, 2013 due to the school's closing. St. Thomas Aquinas joined the North Coast League on that date. In 2014, Holy Name announced that they would be leaving the North Coast League for the new Great Lake Conference effective July 1, 2015. Later that year, Youngstown Christian School (later renamed Valley Christian School), which was independent of a league, was unanimously accepted to replace Holy Name. YCS is the first North Coast League school that is not operated by a Roman Catholic diocese or order. However, Valley Christian would only spend three years in the NCL, as it will be joining the Portage Trail Conference effective July 1, 2017.
Gilmour Academy and St. Joseph Academy will be joining the NCL for the 2018-19 school year. St. Joseph is an all-girls school, while Gilmour is co-educational. It is unclear which division these schools will be placed in.
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