Oakland Activities Association

Oakland Activities Association is a Southeast Michigan high school athletics conference. It is made up of 23 schools located largely throughout Oakland County, with a single member located in Wayne County

History

The Oakland Activities Association was first formed with schools from an amalgamation of different leagues. The G.O.A.L. (Greater Oakland Activities League), Metro Suburban Activities Association and the Southeastern Michigan Association (plus one independently associated school) were all merged in 1994 into the Oakland Activities Association, with the goal being to form a more geographically-centered league.

Charter members

After its first year, the OAA experienced rapid growth, with Pontiac Central from the Saginaw Valley Association and Oak Park from the Suburban Athletic League joining in 1995, and Auburn Hills Avondale, Clawson, Madsion Heights Lamphere, and Madison Heights Madison all coming to the OAA in 1996 after the disbandment of the Macomb-Oakland Athletic Conference.

The next major growth period did not occur until 2002, when Farmington, North Farmington, and Farmington Hills Harrison from the Western Lakes Activities Association as well as the newly built Stoney Creek High School in Rochester Hills all joined the OAA.

2002 also marked a period of decline for the OAA, beginning with Brandon High leaving to join the Flint Metro League that year, where it currently resides. Two years after that, in 2004, Madison and Lamphere left to join the Macomb Area Conference, while Clawson left to join the Metro Conference, and in 2008, Waterford Mott and Waterford Kettering left to join the Kensington Lakes Activities Association. However, in 2010, the OAA gained a new member in Oxford, who had come from the Flint Metro League. After that, the next school to leave the OAA for another conference did not come for another 11 years, when Hazel Park left to join the Macomb Area Conference in 2019.^[1]

However, the OAA has been beginning to fill these holes in their membership, extending an invitation to Ferndale University in 2020, who had been co-oping with Ferndale for football for years, and extending another invitation to their first non-Oakland County school in Harper Woods, who was previously an independent, in 2021.

There have also been a significant amount of closings and consolidations of various Oakland County schools in recent years, which also has not helped the OAA's membership. These aforementioned consolidations are Dondero High School closing and merging with Kimball High School to create Royal Oak High School in 2006, Pontiac Central High School closing and merging with Pontiac Northern High School to create Pontiac High School in 2009, Lahser High School closing and merging with Andover High School to create Bloomfield Hills High School in 2013, Southfield-Lathrup High School closing and merging with Southfield High School to create Southfield Senior High School for the Arts and Technology (commonly abbreviated to Southfield A&T) in 2016, and Harrison High School closing in 2019.

Member schools

Current members

*- Ferndale University is involved in a co-op agreement with Ferndale for football

Former members

Membership timeline

Full members Full members (non-football)

OAA Divisions

The members of the Oakland Activities Association is divided into divisions which vary by sport. Before 2007, these divisions were labeled after Roman Numerals, with there typically being three divisions, labeled I, II, III, and occasionally a fourth, labeled IV. Nowadays, though, these divisions are labeled after colors, with most sports typically having three divisions: red, white, and blue. However, some sports are only divided into the red or white divisions while some are divided into a fourth division, gold.^[3]

OAA Football Divisional Champions

Division I (1994-2006)/Red Division (2007-) Champions
Year	School	Division	Overall
1994	Troy	5-0	12-1
1995	Troy	5-0	9-2
1996	Clarkston	6-0	9-1
1997	Troy	6-0	10-1
1998	Lake Orion Rochester Adams Troy	4-1 4-1 4-1	10-2 9-2 9-2
1999	Clarkston	4-1	11-2
2000	Clarkston	6-0	12-1
2001	Rochester Adams	6-0	10-1
2002	Farmington Hills Harrison Lake Orion Rochester Adams	6-1 6-1 6-1	8-3 9-2 8-2
2003	Farmington Hills Harrison	7-0	11-2
2004	Rochester Adams	8-0	12-1
2005	Rochester Adams	8-0	12-1
2006	Lake Orion	8-0	10-1
2007	Clarkston	8-0	9-2
2008	Lake Orion	7-0	12-2
2009	Clarkston	7-0	12-1
2010	Lake Orion	7-0	13-1
2011	Clarkston Lake Orion	6-1 6-1	7-4 6-4
2012	Clarkston	7-0	11-1
2013	Clarkston	7-0	13-1
2014	Clarkston	7-0	14-0
2015	West Bloomfield	7-0	9-1
2016	Clarkston Southfield A&T	5-1 5-1	9-3 8-4
2017	Rochester Adams West Bloomfield	6-1 6-1	9-2 11-3
2018	Clarkston	5-1	11-3
2019	West Bloomfield	6-0	10-2
2020	Clarkston	5-0	8-1

Division II (1994-2006)/White Division (2007-) Champions
Year	School	Division	Overall
1994	Lake Orion	4-0	7-3
1995	Pontiac Central	5-0	10-2
1996	Berkley	6-0	8-2
1997	Birmingham Seaholm	6-1	10-2
1998	Waterford Kettering	6-0	7-2
1999	Berkley Waterford Mott	5-1 5-1	6-4 6-4
2000	Birmingham Groves	6-0	8-2
2001	Royal Oak Kimball	6-0	9-2
2002	Birmingham Seaholm	6-1	8-3
2003	Birmingham Groves	6-1	7-4
2004	Southfield	8-0	9-1
2005	Birmingham Seaholm	7-1	8-3
2006	Royal Oak	7-1	8-3
2007	Rochester Adams	7-0	11-2
2008	Rochester Adams	7-0	8-2
2009	Rochester Adams	7-0	8-3
2010	Farmington Hills Harrison	7-0	14-0
2011	Farmington Hills Harrison	7-0	10-1
2012	Oak Park	6-1	9-3
2013	Southfield	7-0	7-3
2014	Farmington Hills Harrison Oak Park Southfield	6-1 6-1 6-1	10-3 8-3 9-4
2015	Farmington Hills Harrison	7-0	7-3
2016	Birmingham Groves	6-0	11-2
2017	Birmingham Groves Farmington Hills Harrison Oak Park	6-1 6-1 6-1	7-3 10-4 9-3
2018	Oak Park	6-0	9-2
2019	Oak Park	6-0	8-2
2020	Stoney Creek	5-0	7-1

Division III (1994-2006)/Blue Division (2007-) Champions
Year	School	Division	Overall
1994	Royal Oak Kimball	4-0	10-2
1995	Royal Oak Kimball	5-0	10-1
1996	Ferndale	6-0	10-1
1997	Birmingham Groves	6-0	8-3
1998	Birmingham Groves Ortonville Brandon Pontiac Northern	5-1 5-1 5-1	7-2 6-3 7-3
1999	Pontiac Northern	6-0	9-3
2000	Birmingham Seaholm Ortonville Brandon Southfield	5-1 5-1 5-1	9-3 9-2 7-3
2001	Birmingham Seaholm	6-0	11-1
2002	Farmington North Farmington	5-1 5-1	10-2 6-3
2003	Farmington	6-0	8-2
2004	Auburn Hills Avondale Bloomfield Hills Andover Bloomfield Hills Lahser	8-1 8-1 8-1	8-2 10-2 9-2
2005	Bloomfield Hills Lahser	9-0	12-1
2006	Rochester Hills Stoney Creek	8-0	8-2
2007	Rochester Hills Stoney Creek Waterford Mott	7-1 7-1	8-2 7-3
2008	Bloomfield Hills Lahser	8-0	11-2
2009	Hazel Park Pontiac	6-1 6-1	8-3 7-3
2010	Hazel Park	8-0	8-2
2011	Birmingham Groves North Farmington	6-2 6-2	6-4 7-3
2012	Birmingham Seaholm	8-0	8-2
2013	Birmingham Seaholm	7-0	9-2
2014	Farmington	7-0	7-3
2015	Birmingham Groves	7-0	10-1
2016	Bloomfield Hills	6-0	9-1
2017	Auburn Hills Avondale Ferndale Hazel Park	5-1 5-1 5-1	6-4 8-2 6-4
2018	Birmingham Seaholm	6-0	7-3
2019	North Farmington	6-0	9-1
2020	Rochester	6-0	6-1

Division IV Champions
Year	School	Division	Overall
1994	Birmingham Groves	4-0	5-4
1995	Hazel Park	5-0	7-2
1996	Ortonville Brandon	6-0	9-1
1997	Ortonville Brandon	6-0	10-1
1998	Oak Park	7-0	8-2
1999	Clawson	6-1	7-4
2000	Bloomfield Hills Andover	6-0	6-4
2001	Auburn Hills Avondale Bloomfield Hills Andover	5-1 5-1	5-4 7-3
2002	Bloomfield Hills Lahser	7-0	12-1
2003	Bloomfield Hills Lahser	7-0	9-2

References

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External links

• Oakland Activities Association Official Website
• Oakland Activities Association at League Lineup
• MHSAA 2018-19 Enrollment https://www.mhsaa.com/portals/0/documents/AD%20Forms/1819enroll.pdf
• Michigan High School Football