The Patriot Athletic Conference (PAC-12) was an
Ohio
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high school athletic league made up of 12 schools from around the
Cleveland
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area that existed from 2005-2006 to the 2018-2019 school year. All member schools were also members of the
Ohio High School Athletic Association
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Members
The following were members over the league's tenure:
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League history
The league was formed in 2005 from members of the
Mohican Area Conference (Black River and Buckeye), the
Lorain County Conference (Brookside, Clearview, Keystone, Oberlin, and Wellington), and the
Metropolitan Area Conference (Brooklyn, Columbia, and Lutheran West). Firelands and Fairview joined in 2011.
In 2017, the eight primarily
Lorain County
Lorain County is a County (United States), county in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 312,964. Its county seat is Elyria, Ohio, Elyria. The county was physicall ...
schools (Brookside, Clearview, Columbia, Firelands, Keystone, Oberlin, and Wellington, as well as Black River) announced they would leave the PAC in 2020 to form their own league.
In response to the league's imminent dissolution, Brooklyn and Lutheran West were accepted by a league-wide vote in April 2018 to join the
Chagrin Valley Conference This is a list of high school athletic conferences in the Northeast Region of Ohio, as defined by the OHSAA. Because the names of localities and their corresponding high schools do not always match and because there is often a possibility of ambigui ...
in 2019-20.
In May 2018, Buckeye and Fairview were approved to join the
Great Lakes Conference The Great Lakes Conference is an OHSAA athletics conference that began play with the 2015-16 school year. The following are members:
Members
League history
As part of a significant realignment in Cleveland-area high school leagues at the time, ...
for the 2019-20 school year as their eighth and ninth members.
The new league with the eight predominantly Lorain County schools would choose the name of
Lorain County League The Lorain County League (LC8) is an Ohio high school athletic league that began with the 2019-20 school year and is made up of eight schools predominantly based in Lorain County, Ohio. All schools are members of the Ohio High School Athletic Assoc ...
and began league play with the 2019-20 school year.
See also
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Ohio high school athletic conferences
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 ...
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Ohio High School Athletic Association
The Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA) is the governing body of athletic programs for junior and senior high schools in the state of Ohio. The OHSAA governs eligibility of student athletes, resolves disputes, organizes levels of compe ...
References
External links
Patriot Athletic Conference - Official SiteFit for a Pirate?
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Ohio high school sports conferences