The Connecticut Association of Schools and the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC) is the

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for secondary school athletics and other interscholastic competition in the

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Connecticut Connecticut () is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. Its capita ...

Sports offered

Fall

* Cross Country *Boys Football *Girls

Field Hockey Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting ...

* Soccer *Girls

Swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, or other liquid, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Locomotion is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body to achieve hydrodynamic thrust that r ...

*Girls

Volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Sum ...

Winter

Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...

*Boys

Ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice h ...

Indoor Track Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping event ...

*Boys

Wrestling Wrestling is a series of combat sports involving grappling-type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. Wrestling techniques have been incorporated into martial arts, combat ...

Cheerleading Cheerleading is an activity in which the participants (called cheerleaders) cheer for their team as a form of encouragement. It can range from chanting slogans to intense physical activity. It can be performed to motivate sports teams, to ente ...

Spring

*Boys

Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding t ...

*Girls

Softball Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the professional level. The game was first created in 1887 in Chicago by George Hanc ...

Golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping ...

Lacrosse Lacrosse is a team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America, with its origins with the indigenous people of North America as early as the 12th century. The game was extensiv ...

Tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

Outdoor Track Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping event ...

*Boys

Rugby Union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In it ...

Conferences

Berkshire League The Berkshire League is a 9-team athletic conference of high schools, located in Litchfield County, Connecticut. The Berkshire League is a member of the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC). Teams The Berkshire League is ...

Capitol Region Athletic League The Capitol Region Athletic League (CRAL) is a high school athletic conference in Connecticut affiliated with the CIAC. Founded in 2013, its members are mainly located in Greater Hartford Greater Hartford is a region located in the U.S. state o ...

Central Connecticut Conference The Central Connecticut Conference (CCC) is an interscholastic athletic conference in the Greater Hartford region of Connecticut Connecticut () is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is bor ...

Connecticut Technical Conference Connecticut () is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. Its cap ...

Eastern Connecticut Conference The Eastern Connecticut Conference (also known as the ECC) serves high schools in Windham County and New London County New London County is in the southeastern corner of Connecticut and comprises the Norwich-New London, Connecticut Metropol ...

Fairfield County Interscholastic Athletic Conference FCIAC, the Fairfield County Interscholastic Athletic Conference, was established in 1961 and is made up of high schools throughout Fairfield County, Connecticut Fairfield County is a county in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Con ...

Naugatuck Valley League The Naugatuck Valley League (abbreviated NVL) is a 15-team athletic conference of high schools, located in the Naugatuck River Valley of Connecticut. The NVL is a member of the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC). It is the old ...

North Central Connecticut Conference The North Central Connecticut Conference is a high school league, and is a part of the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference. History In July 1999 Enfield High school a founding member of the CCC Conference in 1984, applied to join the ...

Shoreline Conference Shoreline Conference is one of the many athletic conferences in Connecticut. The conference consists mostly of schools in Middlesex County, Connecticut, Middlesex County and serves one school in New Haven County and another in New London County. ...

Southern Connecticut Conference The Southern Connecticut Conference (SCC) is a high school athletics conference in Connecticut Connecticut () is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east ...

* South West Conference

References

The CIAC Story
Retrieved 2006-04-30. *"Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference Handbook 2005-2006." CAS-CIAC. 2005. Connecticut Association of Schools - Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference.

External links

Official website
{{Authority control Sports in Connecticut Education in Connecticut High school sports associations in the United States Sports organizations established in 1921 1921 establishments in Connecticut

Sports offered

Fall

Winter

Spring

Conferences

See also

References

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