page_title: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference (PIAA)
section_title: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference professional and Olympic athletes
hierarchical_section_title: Eastern Pennsylvania Conference (PIAA) / Eastern Pennsylvania Conference professional and Olympic athletes
caption_attribution_description: Brian Schneider
context_page_description: The Eastern Pennsylvania Conference is an athletic conference consisting of 18 large high schools from Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton, and Pike counties in the Lehigh Valley and Pocono Mountains regions of Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is a part of District XI of the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (PIAA).
  The East Penn Conference is broadly considered one of the most competitive athletic divisions in the nation, holding many Pennsylvania and national records and milestones in high school athletic competition. Many East Penn Conference athletes have gone on to compete in the Olympics and in professional sports, including the MLB, NBA, and NFL, and its high school wrestling programs have been labeled "among the nation’s best in the sport for nearly three decades."
context_section_description: Current and former professional and Olympic athletes who played high school athletics at the schools currently comprising the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference include:
caption: Brian Schneider, Northampton Area High School
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