page_title: Midland Empire Conference
hierarchical_section_title: Midland Empire Conference
caption_attribution_description: English: w:Midland Empire Conference banners in w:Maryville, Missouri
context_page_description: The Midland Empire Conference 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 and two other schools from northwest Missouri. The arrangement created a league of schools of comparable size
context_section_description: (before LeBlond and Smithville left and St. Pius joined)
  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.
  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.
caption: Banners of various high schools in Maryville, Missouri
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