St Joseph's Nudgee College

August 8, 2008

Students in Years 5-7 will play against other independent colleges from 2009 after being accepted by the Combined Independent Colleges (CIC) Sports Association.

The CIC competition involves fourteen teams from independent Colleges in Brisbane and the Gold Coast who have middle/primary school Year levels.

It is completely independent of the Great Public School

s (GPS) competition which Nudgee students compete in once they reach Year 8.

Director of Activities Peter Todd said that he was surprised but excited to be entering the CIC competition in 2009.

"Nudgee is still a small CIC school so I thought that perhaps 2010 would be a more likely entrance year but to begin in 2009, in just the second year of having Years 5-7 at Nudgee, is very exciting," Mr Todd said.

Sports that students will be able to compete in are:

• Term 1 - Swimming and cricket
• Term 2 - Rugby, Football and Cross Country
• Term 3 - Basketball, Tennis and Athletics

Unlike the GPS competition, there are no premierships awarded in the CIC competition. This is due to the fact that it is run in two cycles over two years.

All colleges play seven rounds of a given sport per term each year, despite 14 teams being in the CIC, to make up Cycle 1. Teams that aren't played in one year are played the following year as part of Cycle 2.

In 2009 Nudgee will compete against Years 5-7 student from Brisbane Boys College, Moreton Bay Boys College, St Laurence's College, Brisbane Grammar School, St Patrick's College, Villanova College, and Iona College.

Schools that will be played as part of cycle 2 in 2010 are Anglican Church Grammar School, The Southport School, St Joseph's Gregory Terrace, Padua College, Marist College Ashgrove, and Nudgee Junior College.