The Western North Carolina Athletic Conference (August 2009) is a 8 school membered North Carolina High School Athletic Association conference which was referred to as the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics in January 2011.
Prior to January 2011, it was referred to as the Appalachian Athletic Conference. However, a name change was forced when the NCHSAA was hit by a copyright claim from the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) which operates a collegiate conference using the same name . 
