The Michigan Mega Conference was a large high school athletic league comprising twenty-eight schools which disbanded in mid-2009, with its former members either becoming independent or forming their own leagues. Member schools were predominantly located in suburban Wayne County, Michigan, mainly in Downriver. The other schools were located in neighboring Monroe and Washtenaw Counties. The schools were also members of the Michigan High School Athletic Association and compete in the organization's post-season state championships. Depending on the sport, the schools were divided into three or four divisions.
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Controversies
When the MEGA conference was formed in 1993, many schools were denied entry into the conference. The repudiated schools cited that due to their large black student population, the founding schools "discriminated in the formation and operation of the league." Consequently, current member schools Dearborn Heights Robichaud and Romulus filed complaints against the conference for denying their admission as members to the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) at the United States Department of Education. OCR determined that the athletic league violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The schools declined a resolution offered by the OCR and subsequently sent the subject to the Justice Department in the summer of 1995. A resolution was succeeded by the eighteen founding members and the Justice Department to include the aforementioned schools and five others (Highland Park, Inkster, River Rouge, Ypsilanti, Ypsilanti Willow Run) encompassing an athletic conference of twenty five schools. [1]
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List of MEGA Conference state champions
Baseball
Boys' basketball
Girls' basketball
Boys' bowling
Girls' competitive cheer
Boys' cross country
Girls' cross country
Football
Boys' golf
Boys' gymnastics
Girls' gymnastics
Boys' ice hockey
Girls' soccer
Softball
Boys' swimming
Girls' swimming
Boys' tennis
Girls' tennis
Boys' track
Girls' track
Girls' volleyball
Wrestling
WWAC
Eleven former Mega members are now in the two division Western Wayne Athletic Conference(WWAC) They are Garden City, Annapolis, Thurston, Belleville, Fordson, Romulus, Crestwood, Edsel Ford, Robichaud, Dearborn, and Redford Union.