Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association

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The Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association (or MIAA) is a boys' sports conference for private high schools generally located in the Baltimore metropolitan area but extending to various other regions, including the state's mostly rural Eastern Shore. The MIAA has 28 member schools and offers competition in 15 sports. In most sports, it offers multiple levels of competition, including Varsity, Junior Varsity, and Freshmen-Sophomore teams, and the conference is broken down by separate leagues in each. In addition, members are sorted in accordance to continual performance; categories include A, B, or C conference. Teams of the league may move up or down according to their performance spanning over the course of a year or so so as to upkeep the competition to the appropriate levels. Such levels vary for each sport; a school with a "B-conference" lacrosse team can have an "A-Conference" soccer team: it all depends on the athelic performance of that particular sport.

The MIAA is most notable for its lacrosse, in which the "A" Conference is considered one of the best, if not the best, high school leagues in the United States. Cross-Country has also produced several fine athletes, several of which will be pursuing D1 scholarships this year in college.

Seven members of the MIAA (along with non-MIAA member St. Maria Goretti) also form the Baltimore Catholic League in basketball.