Conference Making Way For CC

The pieces are falling into place for Central Catholic to join the Hoosier Athletic Conference.
The conference changed its bylaws on Wednesday to allow a team to join without having a unanimous decision by its members. Now, it only takes four of the seven schools.
“The meeting was about amending constitutional changes and bylaws that may down the road help adding a team,” Twin Lakes athletic director Kent Adams said.
Former AD Scott Leverenz said changing the rule has been talked about for more than two years. He also said the change was pushed because Central Catholic is looking for another conference after the 2010-11 school year.
“(Twin Lakes) is involved with everything, except football, with Central Catholic,” Leverenz said. “We’re looking at competition 12 months around and our kids are involved with Lafayette area schools.”
Central Catholic athletic director Tim Bordenet didn’t know about the rule change when contacted Thursday, but he does think it will help further conversations that the two sides have had.
“That would be a positive sign that at least some of their members are looking at adding,” Bordenet said. “Hopefully it will bode well for us in the future.”
With the prior rules the conference would have struggled reaching a unanimous decision on adding a team because of the conference’s diversity. Now, only one school can’t control the vote.
“Our conference is so diverse,” Adams said. “A unanimous decision is going to be difficult to get because of the size and interests with the schools.”
For instance, some schools don’t have teams to compete in conference tournaments. So, to have the ability to expand the conference with worthy schools is an option it needed and now exists.
“I know that the Hoosier Conference knows that we have interest,” Bordenet said.

Published in the Herald Journal in August 2009.