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
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Sports offered
Fall
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Cross Country
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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 ...
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Soccer
*Girls
Swimming
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*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
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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 ...
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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
Swimming
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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
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 ...
*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
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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 ...
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Capitol Region Athletic League
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Central Connecticut Conference
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Connecticut Technical Conference
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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 ...
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Fairfield County Interscholastic Athletic Conference
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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 ...
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North Central Connecticut Conference
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Shoreline Conference
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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 ...
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South West Conference
See also
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List of high schools in Connecticut
This list of high schools in the state of Connecticut is a sortable table. To sort alphabetically by the subject of each column, click on the triangles in each column heading. A second click reorders the list in reverse alphabetical order by that c ...
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NFHS
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
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Sports in Connecticut
Education in Connecticut
High school sports associations in the United States
Sports organizations established in 1921
1921 establishments in Connecticut