Claim: The Western North Carolina Athletic Conference (August 2009) is a 8 school membered North Carolina High School Athletic Association conference which was referred to as the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics in January 2011.
Evidence: Prior to January 2011, it was referred to as the Appalachian Athletic Conference. However, a name change was forced when the NCHSAA was hit by a copyright claim from the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) which operates a collegiate conference using the same name .