The mission of the South Carolina High School League is to provide governance and leadership for interscholastic athletic programs that promote, support, and enrich the educational experience of students. The purpose of the League is to formulate and maintain policies in accordance with its mission and beliefs that will: safeguard the educational values of interscholastic athletic competition; advance high ideals of sportsmanship; develop and direct a program which will promote, protect and conserve the health and physical welfare of all participants; and promote uniformity of standards in all interscholastic athletic competition.