Greater Miami Conference celebrates its 50th anniversary - Cincinnati.com

Scott Kaufman looked around the conference room full of his Greater Miami Conference athletic director colleagues gathered at a West Chester restaurant. This school year, in particular, is significant for the GMC as it celebrates its 50th anniversary of competition. Just a day before the Ohio High School Athletic Association boys' and girls' golf seasons begin – which officially kicked off the fall sports season in early August - athletic directors from the 10-member GMC gathered to discuss issues for the... One of the oldest and most respected high school athletic conferences in the state, the GMC started in the 1966-67 school year with six charter member schools: Fairfield, Hamilton Garfield, Hamilton Taft, Miamisburg, Middletown and Princeton. Kaufman, the Lakota West athletic director who was previously at Princeton earlier in his career, is in his 18th year overall in the GMC. To his right sat longtime GMC Commissioner Steve Shuck and to his left was longtime Lakota District Athletic Director Stu Eversole. "Steve and Stu gives our entire group stability," Kaufman said as the group met took a break for lunch. Shuck, who has been in the conference since it started in 1966, worked in the Princeton school district for 30 years as an assistant athletic director and physical education teacher. Source: www.cincinnati.com