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The Board of The Association of Independent Schools of NSW established the New South Wales Combined Independent Schools Sports Council (CIS) in 1995 for the purpose of providing independent school students and staff with the opportunity to participate in State and National school sporting activities previously only available to those in State schools. At the end of 2017 CIS became a company, a stand alone entity, with the schools becoming the members of the council. A Board of Directors was elected and to guide CIS into the future.
The model chosen for this Council was designed to assist both existing and new Sporting Associations of schools to work together to achieve this objective. To access the activities of the CIS, a student must first ne a member of an existing independent school. The school needs to be a member of CIS and affiliated to one of the Eligible Sporting Associations.
The current Sporting Associations are:
AICES: Association of Independent Co-Educational Schools (Secondary) - AICES has 8 sub-associations.
ASISSA: All suburbs Independent Schools Sports Association (Primary)
CAS: The Associated Schools of NSW (Secondary)
CASA: Combined Anglican Schools Association (Primary)
CSSA: Christian Schools Sports Association (Primary & Secondary)
GPS: Athletics Association of Great Public Schools (Secondary)
HICES: Heads of Independent Co-Educational Schools (Primary)
HRIS: Hunter Region Independent Schools (Primary)
HZSA: Hills Zone Sports Association (Primary)
IGSA: Independent Girls' Schools Association (Secondary)
IPSHA: Independent Primary Schools Heads of Association of Australia Ltd - NSW Branch (Primary)
ISA: Independent Sporting Association (Secondary)
NCIS: North Coast Independent Schools Sports Association (Secondary and Primary)
RAS: Riverina Associated Schools (Primary and Secondary)
SASSA: Southern Anglican Schools Sports Association (Primary)
Within this structure, some 147,000 students are provided with the opportunity to participate in higher levels of sporting involvement in a wide variety of sports including:
Secondary
Athletics
AFL
Baseball
Basketball
Cricket
cross Country
Diving
Football
Golf
Hockey
Netball
Rugby 7s
Rugby League
Softball
Swimming
Tennis
Touch Football
Triathlon
Volleyball
Water Polo
Primary
Athletics
AFL
Basketball
Cricket
Cross Country
Diving
Football
Golf
Hockey
Netball
Rugby Union
Softball
Swimming
Tennis
Touch Football
From the affiliated associations, the CIS secondary and primary representative teams are selected to compete witht heir peers fromt he State and Catholic sectors at the various NSW PSSA (Primary) and NSW All Schools (Secondary) activities from which state representative teams are chosen to participate in National Championships or sporting exchanges with teams from other state and territories. CIS is proud to be able to offer to schools involvement in these various levels of participation and competition, through which they can provide for their students such valuable sporting, social and cultural experiences.
Chris Ohlback
Executive Officer CIS
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