Midland Empire Conference

(before LeBlond and Smithville left and St. Pius joined)

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 since 1937 competed in the Northwest Missouri Conference with much smaller schools.[1][2]

Discussions of creating a conference of larger comparable sized schools in northwest Missouri had been discussed since at least 1925 but never quite materialized.[3]

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

Member schools
School Mascot Colors Town County Enrollment (2018)[4] Primary MSHSAA class* Football class Year Joined
Benton High School (Lady) Cardinals     St. Joseph Buchanan 781 4 3 1962
Cameron High School (Lady) Dragons     Cameron Clinton 548 3 3 1998 [5]
Chillicothe High School (Missouri) (Lady) Hornets     Chillicothe Livingston 571 4 3 1985[6]
Lafayette High School Fighting Irish     St. Joseph Buchanan 783 4 4 1962
Maryville High School (Lady) Spoofhounds     Maryville Nodaway 470 3 2 1962
Savannah High School (Lady) Savages     Savannah Andrew 780 4 3 1962
St. Pius X High School Warriors     Kansas City Clay 411 4 3 2018[7]

Former Members

References
  1. "Midland Empire Conference formed March 30, 1962". March 30, 1962. p. 10 – via newspapers.com.
  2. https://www.newspapers.com/image/559073602/?terms=%22Northwest%2BMissouri%2BConference%22
  3. "Northwest Missouri Conference Change January 27, 1925". January 27, 1925. p. 1 – via newspapers.com.
  4. "MSHSAA Untitled Page". www.mshsaa.org.
  5. "19 Sep 1997, 19 - St. Joseph News-Press at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com.
  6. "15 Mar 1985, 15 - St. Joseph Gazette at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com.
  7. "Midland Empire schedule preview - Prepskc". prepskc.com.
  8. Now, File photo | News-Press Now By John Zetmeir News-Press. "Bishop LeBlond set to play 8-man football in 2019". News-Press NOW.
  9. "Bishop LeBlond Rejoins MEC". News-Press NOW.
  10. Herald, Andy Meyer Smithville. "Smithville approves move to Suburban league". News-Press NOW.
  11. News-Press, Cody Thorn St Joseph. "Smithville could be leaving MEC". News-Press NOW.
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