Welcome to the
    Mississippi High School Activities Association
    Ennis H. Proctor Ed.D. - Executive Director

    Dear Member Schools:

    It is with great anticipation that we look forward to another wonderful year with activities, both athletic and academic for the upcoming school year.  The 2005 – 2006 school year proved to be highly successful, mainly because of the hard work and dedication of our administrators, coaches, and sponsors throughout the state.

    The attendance at our events appeared to be as good as ever and the games at Memorial Stadium and in the Coliseum were indeed a happening.  Pearl High School did an outstanding job in hosting the State Marching Festival, Championship Marching Festival, State Band Concert Festival, Choral Music Festival and the state Track Meet.  Clinton High School also hosted the State Marching Festival and Madison Central High School hosted girls and boys powerlifting.  The State Baseball Championships, held at Trustmark were sponsored by Mississippi Sports Medicine.  It was well attended and proved to be a big success.

    The Athletic Director’s Association continues to grow on both the state and national level.  Activities such as cheerleading, speech and debate, and the Lindy Callahan Scholar Athlete are second to none in this country.  More schools are placing emphasis on the awards given to the Scholar Athlete Teams, as shown in the listing in the MHSAA Year in Review magazine.

    I am especially proud of the progress we have made with our sportsmanship program, however, we still have a long way to go.  We still have some coaches that need to learn self-control and to emulate the behavior they expect from their players.   Soccer, basketball and baseball had more than their share of coach's ejections and we must do a better job this school year.

    Good officiating continues to be a concern for all of us, since many of the veteran officials are retiring.  We need to recruit good, quality, young people to take their place.  Our schools can help with this problem by recommending people in their community that are high school graduates and have the qualities it takes to work with our young people.

    We have sanctioned girl’s Powerlifting as a state championship, as well as sanctioning the second girl’s State Invitational Golf Tournament.  The girl’s pole vault was a second year event in track this year and the student athletes showed great improvements.  This will give more of our young people an opportunity to participate.  We will continue to work towards improvement with all of our programs and ask that you call on us in the MHSAA office if we can be of service to you at any time.