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The Associated Independent Colleges, or AIC, is a group of independent secondary schools in south-east Queensland, Australia. With the exception of St Peters Lutheran College, AIC schools are all-boys schools (St Peter's secondary girls compete in the Queensland Girls' Secondary Schools Sports Association). The AIC was founded in 1998 as an athletic association for male secondary students. All eight colleges were formerly members of The Associated Schools (TAS), founded in 1956. Some colleges were originally members of the Metropolitan Catholic Schools Association (MCSA), founded in 1934. The most prominent sports contested include rugby union,〔〔 cricket and football, as well as swimming and track and field. ==History== The Associated Independent Colleges was formed in 1998 with the first year of competition being 1999. All AIC members were previously in The Associated Schools (TAS), which had expanded to include fifteen schools by the mid 1990s, and the standard of TAS competition was falling. The colleges with the strongest athletic performance levels in the TAS competition's top division moved to form the AIC.〔 After the AIC was founded, only one all-boys school remained in TAS, the now defunct Marist Brothers College Rosalie. In protest of the departure of the eight AIC schools from TAS competition, all TAS schools with a primary school attached withdrew from the CIC competition for private primary schools. In 2014, the AIC was expanded to include competitions for primary students in grades 5–7.〔 The primary schools attached to AIC schools had previously competed against their GPS counterparts as part of the Combined Independent Colleges (CIC) association until its dissolution in 2014.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Associated Independent Colleges」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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