The conference was established on November 25, 1941. The first Mid-State Conference championship event was the conference track and field championship hosted on May 1, 1942, at Danville High School in which Lawrence Central was the winner.
Girls' sports were added to the Mid-State Conference starting in fall 1975. Greenwood volleyball captured the first-ever girls Mid-State title with their volleyball win in 1975. Plainfield captured the first-ever championship in girls' basketball in 1976, and Mooresville and Center Grove split the first conference title in girls' tennis in 1976.
Team and individual awards
The Mid-State Conference presents a team trophy to the winning team of each conference sport. It is possible for there to be two or more co-champions in a sport, especially in sports like tennis, softball, baseball, football and basketball where a team's place in the conference is calculated by overall conference wins.
The Mid-State Conference also presents team sport trophies at the junior high (middle school) level. In the past, conference team awards have been awarded to freshmen (frosh) and reserve (junior varsity) teams.
In addition to team awards, the Mid-State Conference also presents awards to individual players and coaches. Players who excel in a sport may be nominated for the All-Mid-State Team The Mid-State Coach of the Year is an award given to conference coaches. Players with a strong academic performance can individually receive an All-Conference Academic Award
An April 1989 news article states that neither Whiteland nor Speedway competed in conference softball for the 1988–1989 school year. 1987 is reported as the first year of softball at Avon High School.
**Decatur Central won conference in softball in 1988, 1989, 1990, 1993, and 1994 while part of the Central Suburban Conference and in 1998, 2000, 2001 and 2004 while part of Conference Indiana.
***Martinsville girls softball won their conference in 2005 and 2006 while part of Conference Indiana.
Avon went 6–0 against boys soccer teams whose schools also were Mid-State participants during 1994–1995 school year.
The 2001 Whiteland Yearbook mentions the first soccer team being a co-ed team.
The Mid-State Conference adopted soccer starting in the 1994–1995 school year for both boys and girls.
The 1996–1997 Mooresville High School yearbook puts Mooresville at 5–0–1 in the conference in the fall 1996 season of boys soccer. The 1996–1997 Plainfield High School yearbook claims Plainfield boys soccer, with a conference record of 5–1 (losing to Mooresville), were "co-conference champs".
The 1995–1996 Mooresville yearbook lists their boys soccer team as 5–1 against conference opponents (losing to Avon). Avon's yearbook mentions the Avon boys soccer team as having a 11–1–2 record with no scores. The 1995–1996 Greenwood yearbook asserts that Greenwood boys soccer tied Avon and had an overall 3–2–1 record against teams in the conference.
The 2000–2001 Mooresville High School yearbook mentions Mooresville receiving the first-ever Mid-State trophy for girls soccer.
In 1999, Avon is credited for going 4–0 against girls' soccer teams whose schools were participating in the Mid-State conference.
The 2000–2001 Whiteland yearbook mentions the first soccer team being a co-ed team. A newspaper source lists 2003 as the second year for Whiteland Girls Soccer.
The 1998–1999 Greenwood Yearbook states that an intramural girls soccer team would be a possibility for the 1999–2000 school year.
The 1997–1998 Mooresville Yearbook mentions that 1996–1997 season was the first season for girls' soccer.
In 1993, Franklin and Greenwood decided to add soccer for the upcoming 1994–1995 school year.
The 2005 Martinville girls volleyball team participated and claimed titles in both Conference Indiana and Mid-State Conference.
The 2009–2010 Plainfield High School yearbook shows Plainfield girls volleyball as going 6–0 against teams whose school were participants in the Mid-State Conference.
The 1980 Franklin girls volleyball team won the South Central Conference before moving to the Mid-State Conference in 1981.
The 1969 Speedway High School yearbook shows that Speedway had victories over Danville, Mooresville and Greenwood in boys tennis and did not play any other teams whose schools were associated with the Mid-State Conference.
In the 1971–1972 school year, tennis switched from being a fall sport to a spring sport. The Mid-State tournament for Boys Tennis was played in May 1971 and again in October 1971.
The first Mid-State Conference girls golf tournament was held at Legends Golf Course in Franklin, Indiana on September 10, 1994. In 1994 and 1995 the schools with girls golf teams that competed in the Mid-State Conference Invitational were: Franklin, Avon, Greenwood and Speedway.
Martinsville girls golf participated in the Mid-State Conference starting in the 2005–2006 school year.
Mooresville fielded no girls' golf team in 1987 but had one female member on its golf team this year.
Cheerleading
Titles
School
Years
6
Greenwood
1998, 1999, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2012
5
Whiteland
Dec. 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2009
3
Mooresville
2000, 2022, 2023
2
Plainfield
2021, 2025
1
Franklin
Jan. 2002**
1
Martinsville
2024
The first Mid-State Conference girls competitive cheerleading competition was held at Franklin High School on November 14, 1998.
The 2001-2002 Mid-State Conference cheerleading competition took place in January 2002.
Unified Track and Field
Titles
School
Years
3
Franklin
2019, 2021, 2022
2
Whiteland
2024, 2026
Mid-State All-Sport Trophy (boys, girls and combined)
The Mid-State All-Sport is a trophy awarded each year to the team with the most overall success in athletics. The trophy has been awarded since 1947. The September 25, 1947, newspaper The Republican states that "at a meeting that took place on September 18, 1947, Mid-State officials elected to award an all-sport trophy."
Calculations to determine the recipient of the All-Sport Trophy are determined by each team's placing in each of the counting events. The higher the team places, the more points count toward the trophy.
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