History
The Lake Michigan Conference was started in 1997, when 6 members of the old Great Northern Lower Peninsula Conference- Lake Michigan Division (Boyne City, Charlevoix, East Jordan, Elk Rapids, Harbor Springs, and Traverse City St. Francis) along with GNLP-Lake Huron Division Kalkaska left after the deformation of the GNLP. The membership stayed the same until 2003, when Grayling, a former Lake Huron Division Rival of Kalkaska, left the Northeast Michigan Conference. This gave the conference the 8 teams that it has today. In 2010, conference athletic directors voted to eliminate St. Francis from participating in football effective in 2012. Elk Rapids and Grayling agreed to continue their series, while St. Francis will play two other LMC teams on a three-year rotation. The LMC has also extended a invitation to St. Ignace to join. On January 14, 2011, it was announced that St. Ignace will join the Ski-Valley Conference.
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