The Coulee Conference is a seven-member high school athletic conference in the La Crosse, Wisconsin area. It is affiliated with the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association. Conference schools have enrollments ranging from 236 to 540, with an average enrollment of 395.
Beginning in 2014, West Salem will compete in the Mississippi Valley Conference for football only.
With the announcement and passing of football-only conference realignments by the WIAA, the Coulee Conference will be temporarily split up for the 2019 football season. In the 2020 football season, the Coulee Conference will return, but Luther will join the Scenic Bluffs Conference. The Altoona Railroaders of the Cloverbelt Conference and Aquinas Blugolds (La Crosse) of the Mississippi Valley Conference will join the Coulee for football only.
Sports
The Coulee Conference sponsors 20 varsity sports. They are:
Fall - Football, boys' soccer, girls' tennis, volleyball, boys' cross country, girls' cross country and girls' golf Winter - Boys' basketball, girls' basketball, gymnastics, wrestling boys' hockey and girls' hockey. Spring - Boys' track, girls' track, boys' golf, boys' tennis, girls' soccer, baseball and softball.
Schools
Former schools
Holmen Vikings (Holmen) - Left after 1988 season to join Mississippi Valley Conference Onalaska Hilltoppers (Onalaska) - Left after 1988 season to join Mississippi Valley Conference La Crescent Lancers (La Crescent, Minnesota) - Left after 2006 season to join Minnesota's Hiawatha Valley League Melrose-Mindoro Mustangs (Melrose) Cochrane-Fountain City Pirates (Fountain City)
State championships
Football
1978 - Westby
1985 - Westby
1986 - Westby
2007 - West Salem
Boys' golf
1994 - Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau
2010 - Arcadia
Softball
2014 - Arcadia
Boys' Track & Field
1991 - Arcadia
1992 - Arcadia
1994 - Arcadia
1995 - Arcadia
1998 - Arcadia
1999 - Arcadia
2004 - Arcadia
Girls' Track & Field
1979 - West Salem
1998 - Arcadia
2003 - Arcadia
2004 - Arcadia
2007 - West Salem
2008 - Arcadia
2009 - Arcadia
Spring Baseball
2017 - West Salem
State championship runners-up
Football
1989 - Westby
1999 - Black River Falls
2002 - West Salem
2005 - West Salem
2009 - Arcadia
Boys' basketball
2006 - Westby
2012 - Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau
Girls' basketball
1999 - Viroqua
Spring baseball
1981 - Viroqua
1985 - Viroqua
1997 - Westby
2013 - Westby
2014- Viroqua
Summer baseball
1984 - Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau
Boys' cross country
1994 - West Salem
Girls' golf
2008 - Arcadia/Cochrane-Fountain City
Boys' golf
1991 - Arcadia
1996 - Arcadia
1999 - Arcadia
Gymnastics
1979 - Viroqua
2004 - Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau/Melrose-Mindoro/Cochrane-Fountain City
2005 - Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau/Melrose-Mindoro/Cochrane-Fountain City
Girls' hockey
2002 - Viroqua/Cornerstone/Westby/Youth Initiative
Boys' Track & Field
1973 - West Salem
2001 - Arcadia
2007 - Arcadia
2009 - West Salem
Girls' Track & Field
2008 - West Salem
2009 - West Salem
Softball
1991 - Westby
2007 - Arcadia
Wrestling
1995 - Arcadia
The Vernon County Mega Bowl
Beginning in 2019, the Westby Norsemen and the Viroqua Blackhawks have played for the Vernon County Mega Bowl in their yearly football contest. The Norsemen won the first Mega Bowl game 21-8 in 2019. There was no Mega Bowl Game in 2020.