The Macomb Area Conference (abbreviated to MAC) (formerly known as the Macomb Athletic Conference) is a high school sports league located in Southeastern Michigan. It is a member of the Michigan High School Athletic Association (MHSAA). There are currently 36 members, spread across Macomb County, St. Clair County, Oakland County, and Wayne County. The MAC offers sports for both boys and girls, including boys and girls cross country, boys football, boys and girls basketball, boys baseball, and girls softball, boys and girls soccer, boys and girls swimming, girls volleyball, boys and girls track and field, wrestling, boys hockey, and boys and girls tennis. League History The MAC was formed in 1986 through the merger of the Macomb Conference and the Bi-County Conference, and began competition in September 1987. Charter members Expansion First Expansion Brablec was closed and consolidated with Roseville High School in 1989. Roseville then joined the MAC the same year in place of Brablec. Second Expansion In 1990 the Eastern Michigan League was disbanded and all its former members joined the MAC. Eastpointe Grosse Pointe South Macomb L'Anse Creuse North Mt. Clemens New Baltimore Anchor Bay Port Huron Port Huron Northern Third Expansion In 1992, Warren High and C. S. Mott High consolidated and became Warren Mott High School, which joined the MAC in place of South Lake, which left to join the Macomb-Oakland Athletic Conference the same year. Fourth Expansion In 1996, both the St. Clair Area League and the Macomb-Oakland Athletic Conference were disbanded. All six of the former members of the SCAL and four of the eight schools from the MOAC (specifically, all the schools located in Macomb County) joined the MAC that same year. St. Clair Area League: Algonac‡ Imlay City† Marine City Marysville Richmond† St. Clair Macomb-Oakland Area Conference: Center Line Warren Fitzgerald Warren Lincoln St. Clair Shores South Lake* In addition, Dakota High School also joined the MAC in 1996 after being built in Macomb Township the previous year, making for a total of 11 schools joining the conference that year. † -Both Imlay City and Richmond left in 1999 to join the Southern Thumb Athletic Association ‡ -Algonac left in 2002 to join the newly formed Blue Water Area Conference * -South Lake rejoined the MAC after leaving four years prior Fifth Expansion In 2004, Madison Heights Madison and Madison Heights Lamphere, from the Oakland Activities Association, and New Haven, which