Eastern Mediterranean Activities Conference
| Abbreviation | EMAC |
|---|---|
| Formation | 1980 |
| Extinction | 2011 |
| Legal status | Inactive |
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Region served
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Middle East, Asia Minor, Egypt |
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Membership
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17 schools |
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Official language
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English |
The Eastern Mediterranean Activities Conference (also known as EMAC) was a regional sports and activities league founded in 1980 that hosted tournaments in a wide range of athletic and academic activities. The conference consisted of 17 mostly American schools, with a few British schools, from 11 nations - Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Syria, and the UAE. Occasionally, schools who were not EMAC members were allowed to participate in certain tournaments. EMAC ceased to exist as a conference in 2011.
The following athletic activities were offered:
Typically, each sport would have four separate tournaments, with a distinction made between boys and girls teams, as well as between Varsity and Junior Varsity teams, resulting in Varsity Boys, Varsity Girls, Junior Varsity Boys, and Junior Varsity Girls teams and tournaments. However, both gender tournaments were usually, but not always, hosted together at each level (e.g. Varsity Girls Basketball and Varsity Boys Basketball would usually be hosted simultaneously by one school). Varsity teams were for students aged 16 and older, while Junior Varsity teams for participants under the age of 16. The exceptions to this were the Track & Field and Swimming events. Both sports would have roughly 6 tournaments each (Varsity Boys, Varsity Girls, Junior Varsity Boys, Junior Varsity Girls, Under 13 Boys, and Under 13 Girls) happening at the same time.
EMAC also offered an activity called the Middle School Festival, a noncompetitive tournament in which participants played a variety of sports and gained exposure to athletics and team play.
EMAC also offered three non-athletic activities:
The teams for all 3 events were gender-neutral, as unlike the athletic events, there was no distinction between a boys and girls team. However, both the Academic Games and the Fine Arts Festival still had both Varsity and Junior Varsity teams. The Debate & Forensics did not, as membership to the D&F teams was open to students of all ages and genders; this made the Debate & Forensics tournament the only tournament without separate Varsity and Junior Varsity tournaments, and separate boys and girls tournaments.
The schedule of tournaments for the following year were decided around April. Teams from individual schools would typically prepare months in advance before an EMAC tournament, which was usually scheduled over a weekend, so as not to disturb school sessions (however, as most EMAC events would last on average from 3 to 5 days, some days would fall on a normal school day).
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