Midland Empire Conference
The Midland Empire Conference is a high school athletic conference whose members are located in northwest Missouri. The conference participates in the Missouri State [High School Activities Association|MSHSAA].
The conference 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 and two other schools from northwest Missouri. 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 since 1937.
Discussions of creating a conference of larger comparable sized schools in northwest Missouri had been discussed since at least 1925 but never quite materialized.
In 2018, Smithville left the conference for the Suburban Kansas City Conference and was replaced by St. Pius X in Kansas City.
Former members
- Smithville
- Platte County
- Bishop Leblond
- St. Pius X
Membership timeline
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