The Metro Athletic Conference is an association of eight high schools and their associated middle/junior high schools located in the northeast region of the U.S. state of Ohio. Four member schools are in Summit County, three are in Portage County, and one in Medina County. The league was formed in 2019 and began competition in 2020, comprising all eight members of the former Portage Trail Conference Metro Division. The initial opening of conference play for many sports was put in jeopardy from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, with golf being the only sport to begin interscholastic at the outset in early August 2020. Later in August, it was announced by Ohio Governor Mike DeWine that all sports were allowed to compete under special guidelines outlined by the Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA).
School | Nickname | Location | County | Colors [1] | Enrollment [lower-alpha 1] | Middle school | Year joined |
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Cloverleaf High School | Colts | Westfield | Medina | Green, white
| 675 [2] | Cloverleaf Middle School | 2020 |
Coventry High School | Comets | Coventry | Summit | Blue, gold
| 666 [3] | Coventry Middle School | 2020 |
Field High School | Falcons | Brimfield | Portage | Red, white, black
| 497 [4] | Field Middle School | 2020 |
Norton High School | Panthers | Norton | Summit | Red, black, white
| 872 [3] | Norton Middle School | 2020 |
Ravenna High School | Ravens | Ravenna | Portage | Blue, white, red
| 592 [4] | Brown Middle School | 2020 |
Springfield High School | Spartans | Lakemore | Summit | Red, gray
| 693 [5] | Springfield Junior High School | 2020 |
Streetsboro High School | Rockets | Streetsboro | Portage | Blue, gold
| 616 [4] | Streetsboro Middle School | 2020 |
Woodridge High School | Bulldogs | Cuyahoga Falls | Summit | Maroon, silver, white
| 687 [3] | Woodridge Middle School | 2020 |
A previous Metro Athletic Conference existed primarily in Mahoning, Trumbull, and Columbiana Counties until 2014. It was founded in 1972 as the Mahoning Valley Conference and renamed Metro Athletic Conference in 1994. The conference merged with the Trumbull Athletic Conference in 2014 and formed the All-American Conference. [6]
The current Metro Athletic Conference was established in April 2019 after the superintendents of all eight school districts that made up the Portage Trail Conference (PTC) Metro Division voted to move forward with establishing a new league separate from the PTC to begin play in August 2020. Reasons given for leaving the PTC included concerns over officiating, scheduling, and league operations, along with the desire for a third-party commissioner and more educational opportunities. [7] [8] The name had been chosen by the time the split from the PTC was made official in June 2019. [9]
Interscholastic competition began in August 2020 with golf, but the COVID-19 pandemic put several other sports in jeopardy. [10] Ohio Governor Mike DeWine announced on Tuesday, August 18, that all sports, including contact sports, may proceed with the plans laid out by the Ohio High School Athletic Association. [11] For football this would mean one inter-school scrimmage followed by a modified 6-game regular season with every team qualifying for the state playoffs. [12] For the Metro Athletic this would mean that each team would play every other school in football except one in 2020.
Year | Football | Boys golf | Girls golf | Boys cross country | Girls cross country | Boys soccer | Girls soccer | Girls tennis | Volleyball | Boys basketball | Girls basketball | Wrestling | Baseball | Softball | Boys track | Girls track | Boys tennis |
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2020-21 | Streetsboro | Cloverleaf | Cloverleaf [13] | Woodridge [14] | Woodridge [14] | Norton | Streetsboro, Norton | Woodridge [15] | Coventry | Norton | Norton | Norton | Field | Field | Woodridge | Cloverleaf | Norton |
2021-22 | Norton | Cloverleaf Coventry (Shared) | Cloverleaf | Woodridge | Woodridge | Norton | Streetsboro Field (Shared) | Norton | Coventry | Streetsboro | Norton | Norton |
Portage County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 census, the population was 161,791. Located in Northeast Ohio, Portage County is part of the Akron Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Cleveland–Akron–Canton Combined Statistical Area. Its county seat is Ravenna and its largest city is Kent. The county, named for the portage between the Cuyahoga and Tuscarawas rivers, was created in 1807 and formally organized in 1808. In addition to the cities of Kent and Ravenna, Portage County also includes the cities of Aurora and Streetsboro, along with five villages, 18 civil townships, and several unincorporated places within those townships. Additionally, the county includes parts of the city of Tallmadge, and part of the village of Mogadore, both of which are mostly in neighboring Summit County.
Northeast Ohio is a geographic and cultural region that comprises the northeastern counties of the U.S. state of Ohio. Definitions of the region consist of 16 to 23 counties between the southern shore of Lake Erie and the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, home to over 4.5 million people. It is anchored by the metropolitan area of Cleveland, the most populous city in the region with over 372,000 residents in 2020. Other metropolitan centers include Akron, Canton, Mansfield, Sandusky, and Youngstown. Northeast Ohio includes most of the area known historically as the Connecticut Western Reserve.
The Portage Trail Conference or PTC is an association of six high schools and their associated middle/junior high schools located in the northeast region of the U.S. State of Ohio. Three member schools are in Portage County, two are in Stark County, and one each is located in Summit and Trumbull counties. The conference officially began play in August 2005 with 16 member schools divided into two eight-school divisions based on enrollment, with the smaller schools in the County Division and the larger schools in the Metro Division. Games against teams in the opposite division did not count as conference games. Between 2013 and 2017, the conference experienced a number of membership changes, with four schools leaving and three schools joining. In 2020 the PTC underwent its largest changes since its inception as 10 schools left the conference. Two schools left the County Division to join different leagues while all eight Metro Division member schools left to form their own conference, the Metro Athletic Conference. Two smaller independent schools joined the five remaining PTC schools for the 2020–21 school year and the County Division name was dropped. As of the 2021–22 school year, the conference competes with a total of six schools.
This is a list of high school athletic conferences in Ohio, separated by Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA) region. Some conferences have schools in multiple regions, and will be listed in all applicable regions. However, the conference information is on the region page where the most schools are classified in.
Theodore Roosevelt High School, often referred to as Kent Roosevelt (KRHS), is a public high school in Kent, Ohio, United States. It is the only high school in Kent and the Kent City School District and serves students in grades 9–12 living in Kent, Franklin Township, Brady Lake, and Sugar Bush Knolls as well as a small portion of southern Streetsboro. As of the 2021–22 academic year, enrollment was 1,267 students with 73 teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 17:1. Recognition for academic performance over the years has come from the United States Department of Education, Ohio Department of Education, and U.S. News & World Report.
Chagrin Falls High School is a public high school located in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States, an eastern suburb in the Greater Cleveland metropolitan area. The high school's mascot is Mortimer the Tiger.
Waterloo High School is a public high school in Atwater, Ohio, United States. It is the only high school in the Waterloo Local School District. Athletic teams compete as the Waterloo Vikings in the Ohio High School Athletic Association as a member of the Mahoning Valley Athletic Conference.
Southeast High School is a public high school located in the southeastern portion of Portage County in Palmyra Township near Ravenna, Ohio, United States. It is the only high school in the Southeast Local School District and was established in 1950 with the consolidation of five rural high schools. The current building opened in 1954 with additions built in the 1960s, 1980s, and 2000s. The district covers nearly 100 square miles (260 km2) including the entire townships of Edinburg and Palmyra, as well as most of Paris, Deerfield and Charlestown townships.
Lake Center Christian School is a private Christian school in Lake Township, between Uniontown and Hartville, Ohio, United States. The school teaches students from kindergarten through 12th grade and is no longer affiliated with the Mennonite Church USA, but continues to be based on Mennonite principles. The school is accredited by the Association of Christian Schools International and Cognia.
Valley Christian School is a private K–12 school in Youngstown, Ohio.
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Windham Junior/Senior High School is a public high school in Windham, Ohio, Portage County, Ohio It is the only high school in the Windham Exempted Village School District. Their mascot is the Bombers and compete as a member of the Ohio High School Athletic Association and is a member of the Northeastern Athletic Conference. Windham High School was founded in 1883.
Medina High School is a public high school located in Medina, Ohio, United States. It serves 2,108 students in grades 9–12. It is the only high school in the Medina City School District and the only high school in the city.
Badger High School is a public high school in Kinsman, Ohio, Trumbull County, Ohio. It is the only high school in the Joseph Badger Local School District. their mascot is the Braves, and they compete in the Ohio High School Athletic Association as a member of the Northeastern Athletic Conference.
Maplewood High School is a public high school in Cortland, Ohio, Trumbull County, Ohio It is the only high school in the Maplewood Local Schools district. Their mascot is the Rockets. and compete as a member of the Ohio High School Athletic Association and is a member of the Northeastern Athletic Conference. The district comprises three townships: Greene, Mecca, and Johnston, which are all within Trumbull County.
The Suburban League is an Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA) athletics league made up of 16 high schools from Cuyahoga, Medina, Portage, and Summit counties in Northeast Ohio. It was formed in 1949 and expanded into two divisions in 2015.
The All-American Conference is an Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA)-sanctioned league created in 2008 from the merger of the Trumbull Athletic Conference and Metro Athletic Conference. 17 sports are offered throughout fall, winter and spring sports seasons. The conference has teams divided into four (4) tiers, depending on sport and includes Gold, Red, White and Blue divisions. Between the merger, the only schools that declined to participate in the merger were the MAC's East Liverpool High School and the TAC's Brookfield High School, with Beaver Local High School joining.
Since the OHSAA began basketball competition in 1922–23, many schools have decided to band together in conferences to help scheduling, added competition for titles and bragging rights, and oftentimes help determine seeding for the early rounds of the state tournament. Some conferences had been established for football-playing schools, and as schools added other sports, adopted those under the conference banner once enough schools started playing. Smaller schools often picked up basketball first, adding other sports later, and combined with other in-county schools to form County conferences. Most of these leagues were formed in the 1920s and early 1930s after the tournament was started, which is why quite a few lack a definitive starting date at this point in time.
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This is a list of former high school athletic conferences in the Northeast Region of Ohio, as designated by the OHSAA. If a conference had members that span multiple regions, the conference is placed in the article of the region most of its former members hail from. Because the names of localities and their corresponding high schools do not always match and because there is often a possibility of ambiguity with respect to either the name of a locality or the name of a high school, the following table gives both in every case, with the locality name first, in plain type, and the high school name second in boldface type. The school's team nickname is given last.