Midland Empire Conference

Banners of various high schools in Maryville, Missouri

The Midland Empire Conference (also called MEC) is a high school activity conference whose members are located in Missouri. The conference participates in the MSHSAA.

The League was created during a March 1962 meeting at Armstrong's Restaurant in Maryville, Missouri and took effect in the 1962-63 school year. The original five schools were four schools from St. Joseph, Missouri (Benton, Christian Brothers (which would fold into LeBlond), and Lafayette) and two other schools from northwest Missouri (Maryville and Savannah). The arrangement created a league of schools of comparable size (the St. Joseph schools earlier competed in the Pony Express Conference which included the much larger St. Joseph Central High School as well as larger suburban Kansas City schools while Savannah and Maryville competed in the Northwest Missouri Conference with much smaller schools.[1]

Discussions of creating a conference of larger comparable sized schools in northwest Missouri had been discussed since at least 1925 but never quite materialized.[2]

In 2018, Smithville left the conference for the Suburban Kansas City Conference and was replaced by St. Pius X in Kansas City.

Member schools

There are eight members of the Midland Empire Conference:

School Team Name Colors Town County Enrollment (2018)[3] Primary MSHSAA class* Football class
Benton High School (Lady) Cardinals           St. Joseph Buchanan 781 4 3
Bishop LeBlond High School (Lady) Golden Eagles           St. Joseph Buchanan 194 3 1
Cameron High School (Lady) Dragons           Cameron Clinton 548 3 3
Chillicothe High School (Missouri) (Lady) Hornets           Chillicothe Livingston 571 4 3
Lafayette High School Fighting Irish           St. Joseph Buchanan 783 4 4
Maryville High School (Lady) Spoofhounds           Maryville Nodaway 470 3 3
Savannah High School (Lady) Savages           Savannah Andrew 780 4 3
St. Pius X High School Warriors           Kansas City Clay 411 4 3

References

  1. ↑ https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5482846/midland_empire_conference_formed_march/
  2. ↑ https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5484324/northwest_missouri_conference_change/
  3. ↑ https://www.mshsaa.org/CMSPages/2016_18MemberEnrollments.aspx
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