The Wright County Conference is about to get bigger.

The 12-team, two-division conference is welcoming Rockford Area and Watertown-Mayer – two former WCC teams – back to the conference over the next two seasons.

Watertown-Mayer will join the conference for the 2015-16 season, and Rockford will also join next season but on a limited basis, “with sports like gymnastics, soccer, speech and knowledge bowl (that) they don’t offer in their old conference,” said Litchfield activities director Mike Sundin.

Rockford will become a full-fledged member of the Wright County Conference by the 2016-17 school year.

Though the preliminary plan is for both new teams to join Litchfield, Annandale, Dassel-Cokato Glencoe-Silver Lake, New London-Spicer and Mound-Westonka in the west division, Sundin said that those details have not been finalized yet.

In that scenario, the east would remain a six-team league comprising Delano, Holy Family, Orono, Waconia, Hutchinson and New Prague.

Both Watertown-Mayer and Rockford are former WCC members: W-M was in the conference from its inception in the 1960s until after the 2010-11 season, when the school joined the Minnesota River Conference; Rockford was a WCC member from the 1977-78 season until after the 1996-97 season.