by Per Padua Athletic Director Kevin Leigh
The Crown Conference will disband after next school year with the departures of Padua, Lake
Catholic, NDCL and Beaumont to the new North Coast Conference, which will begin in the fall of
2024. The North Coast Conference will include Padua, Holy Name, Elyria Catholic, Beaumont, Lake
Catholic, NDCL and CVCA.
“We were looking to find a combination of schools with similar enrollments and sport offerings. With
the changes across a number of conferences in the area, the opportunity presented itself for the
seven schools to come together to form this new conference, “ said Athletic Director Kevin Leigh from
Padua Franciscan High School. “We believe the North Coast Conference will be a very competitive
conference across all sports with our member schools.”
All of the schools will compete in their current conference during the 2023-24 school year with North
Coast Conference play beginning in the fall of 2024
