Alberta Schools Athletic Association
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The Alberta Schools' Athletic Association (ASAA) is the governing body that oversees amateur athelics in schools for the province of Alberta
. It is a voluntary, non profit organization that currently has three hundred and fifty eight member high schools. It enforces polices as dictated by the provincial board of Governors.
in 1956 to coordinate high school championships among member schools. After starting their activities by organizing a regional basketball
tournament, more sports were added throughout the years, starting with track and field
in 1958, badminton
, volleyball
and cross-country
running in the 60's, followed by wrestling
, curling
, football
, golf
, cheerleading
and more recently, girls wrestling and rugby
.
The association is structured in 8 geographical zones, Calgary
& Edmonton
as urban zones, complemented by six rural zones.
Calgary has two associations; the Calgary Independent Schools Athletic Association is in charge of all private and chartered schools
Edmonton Metro handles schools from Elk Island Public, Elk Island Catholic, Edmonton Catholic, North Central Francophone, Black Gold, St. Thomas Aquinas, Sturgeon, St. Albert Protestant and Greater St. Albert Catholic.
Rocky View Sports Association controls cities, townships, and hamlets schools outside the city of Calgary
4A SCHOOLS ARE 800 + STUDENTS
3A SCHOOLS ARE 300-799 STUDENTS
2A SCHOOLS ARE 100-299 STUDENTS
1A SCHOOLS ARE 0-99 STUDENTS
The sports sanctioned by the ASAA are steered by the governing sports bodies and its guidelines to provide an equitable competition and ethical standards for all male and females students and coaches involved within that sports' program. The governing sports bodies are:
Through these organizations, the ASAA sponsors twenty nine provincial championships annually.
Alberta
Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...
. It is a voluntary, non profit organization that currently has three hundred and fifty eight member high schools. It enforces polices as dictated by the provincial board of Governors.
History
The ASAA was founded in CalgaryCalgary
Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies...
in 1956 to coordinate high school championships among member schools. After starting their activities by organizing a regional basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
tournament, more sports were added throughout the years, starting with track and field
Track and field
Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...
in 1958, badminton
Badminton
Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players or two opposing pairs , who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their...
, volleyball
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.The complete rules are extensive...
and cross-country
Cross country running
Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...
running in the 60's, followed by wrestling
Wrestling
Wrestling is a form of grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position...
, curling
Curling
Curling is a sport in which players slide stones across a sheet of ice towards a target area. It is related to bowls, boule and shuffleboard. Two teams, each of four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called "rocks", across the ice curling sheet towards the house, a...
, football
Canadian football
Canadian football is a form of gridiron football played exclusively in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete for territorial control of a field of play long and wide attempting to advance a pointed prolate spheroid ball into the opposing team's scoring area...
, golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
, cheerleading
Cheerleading
Cheerleading is a physical activity, sometimes a competitive sport, based on organized routines, usually ranging from one to three minutes, which contain the components of tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers, and stunting to direct spectators of events to cheer on sports teams at games or to participate...
and more recently, girls wrestling and rugby
Rugby football
Rugby football is a style of football named after Rugby School in the United Kingdom. It is seen most prominently in two current sports, rugby league and rugby union.-History:...
.
The association is structured in 8 geographical zones, Calgary
Calgary
Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies...
& Edmonton
Edmonton
Edmonton is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta and is the province's second-largest city. Edmonton is located on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Capital Region, which is surrounded by the central region of the province.The city and its census...
as urban zones, complemented by six rural zones.
District Zones
The eight geographic zones as sanctioned by the ASAA are as follows:- Calgary
- Edmonton
- North East
- North West
- North Central
- Central
- South
- South Central
The Associations
Within these geographic zones, the policies set forth by the ASAA are administered by the regional associations.- Calgary - Calgary Senior High School Athletic Association & Calgary Independent Schools Athletic Association 1
- Edmonton - Edmonton Metro Athletic Association 2 & Edmonton Public
- South Central - Rocky View Sports Association 3 & South Central Zone of the Alberta Schools' Athletic Association
- South - South Zone of the Alberta Schools' Athletic Association
- Central - Central Zone of the Alberta Schools' Athletic Association
Calgary has two associations; the Calgary Independent Schools Athletic Association is in charge of all private and chartered schools
Edmonton Metro handles schools from Elk Island Public, Elk Island Catholic, Edmonton Catholic, North Central Francophone, Black Gold, St. Thomas Aquinas, Sturgeon, St. Albert Protestant and Greater St. Albert Catholic.
Rocky View Sports Association controls cities, townships, and hamlets schools outside the city of Calgary
Structure and The Sports Governing Bodies
In order to provide a competitive balance, each member school are sorted and placed into tiers (for football) and divisions (for all other major sports like volleyball & basketball) based upon the student populous. Schools with a poplution base of 1250 and beyond are assigned to Tier I and Division 4A; Tier II and Division 3A schools include schools with a population base between 750 to 1249; Tier III and Division 2A schools are those carrying a student populous of 450 to 749; and Tier IV and Division 1A contain member schools of 449 or less.4A SCHOOLS ARE 800 + STUDENTS
3A SCHOOLS ARE 300-799 STUDENTS
2A SCHOOLS ARE 100-299 STUDENTS
1A SCHOOLS ARE 0-99 STUDENTS
The sports sanctioned by the ASAA are steered by the governing sports bodies and its guidelines to provide an equitable competition and ethical standards for all male and females students and coaches involved within that sports' program. The governing sports bodies are:
- Athletics AlbertaAthletics AlbertaAthletics Alberta, legally registered as Athletics Alberta Association, is the Provincial Sports Organization responsible for the promotion, coordination and organization of track and field, cross-country and road running in Alberta...
- Basketball Alberta
- Alberta Curling Federation
- Alberta Golf
- Rugby AlbertaRugby AlbertaRugby Alberta is the provincial administrative body for rugby union in Alberta.-External links:*...
- Alberta Wrestling
- Alberta Badminton
- Alberta Cheerleading Association
- Football Alberta
- Alberta Junior Rugby Association
- Alberta Volleyball
- Alberta Team Handball Federation
Through these organizations, the ASAA sponsors twenty nine provincial championships annually.
Championships
The provincial championships are held at or in appropriate venues annually and are awarded in the following ASAA sports:
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Football
The first ASAA sponsored provincial Senior Varsity football championship was awarded in 1985. Due to the cold inclement weather, the inaugural championship games were cancelled, and the competing schools were declared co-champions.| Year | Tier I | Tier II | Tier III | Tier IV |
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| 1985 | L.C.I. Lethbridge Collegiate Institute Lethbridge Collegiate Institute is the largest school operated by Lethbridge School District No. 51. The public high school is one of four in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, that serve grades nine through twelve. Entry into LCI is loosely based on resident location in either south or west... & Harry Ainlay Harry Ainlay Composite High School Harry Ainlay High School is a Canadian high school located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in the Royal Gardens Community, south of Whitemud Drive on 111 Street... |
Catholic Central & Stettler | ||
| 1986 | Salisbury | Stettler | Cochrane | |
| 1987 | Harry Ainlay | Cardston | Cochrane | |
| 1988 | L.C.I. | Salisbury | Medicine Hat | |
| 1989 | L.C.I. | Archbishop Jordan | Rocky Mountain House | |
| 1990 | L.C.I. | Cardston | Raymond | |
| 1991 | Henry Wise Wood | Cardston | Raymond | |
| 1992 | L.C.I | Cardston | Raymond | |
| 1993 | L.C.I | Cardston | Bert Church | |
| 1994 | L.C.I | Lloydminster | Wainwright | |
| 1995 | St. Francis Saint Francis High School (Calgary) Saint Francis High School is a liberal arts Roman Catholic high school, and one of the largest in Calgary, serving 1700 students in the communities of northwest Calgary, Alberta.... |
Brooks | Kate Andrews | |
| 1996 | Raymond | Cochrane | Sexsmith | |
| 1997 | Raymond | Brooks | Springbank Springbank Community High School Springbank Community High School, is a public senior high school in Springbank, Alberta, Canada. Located on the west side of the city of Calgary, the school provides programming to students in grades nine to twelve from the communities of Bragg Creek, Springbank, Redwood Meadows and parts of... |
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| 1998 | Raymond | Cochrane | McCoy | |
| 1999 | Jasper Place | George McDougall | W.R. Myers | Oilfields |
| 2000 | Strathcona | Foothills | W.R. Myers | Oilfields |
| 2001 | Strathcona | Medicine Hat | W.R. Myers | Ardrossan |
| 2002 | Bev Facey | Archbishop Jordan | Cochrane | Bow Valley Bow Valley High School Bow Valley High School is a public secondary school located in the township of Cochrane, Alberta, Canada. The school falls under the jurisdiction of the Rocky View Schools Division... |
| 2003 | St. Francis | Archbishop Jordan | Cochrane | Bow Valley |
| 2004 | St. Francis | Foothills | Cochrane | Ardrossan |
| 2005 | Raymond | St. Mary’s St. Mary's High School (Calgary) St. Mary's High School is a Canadian secondary school in Calgary, Alberta, operated by the Calgary Catholic School District . The school is well known in Calgary for its historical significance... |
Cochrane | Ardrossan |
| 2006 | Salisbury | Foothills | Wetaskiwin | Willow Creek |
| 2007 | St. Francis | Notre Dame ( Cal.) Notre Dame High School (Calgary) Notre Dame Senior High School is a Catholic high school in Calgary, Alberta, Canada with more than 1,450 students. Notre Dame High School has been granted with International Baccalaureate, it commenced in September 2010... |
Cochrane | Sylvan Lake Creek |
| 2008 | Raymond | Notre Dame (Cal.) | Cochrane | Ardrossan |
| 2009 | Raymond | |||
| 2010 | Raymond | |||
External links
- Alberta Schools' Athletic Association
- Calgary Senior High School Athletic Association
- Calgary Independent Schools Athletic Association
- Rocky View Sports Association
- Edmonton Metro Athletic Association
- Edmonton Public
- Central Zone of the Alberta Schools' Athletic Association
- The South Zone of the Alberta Schools' Athletic Association
- The South Central Zone of the Alberta Schools' Athletic Association
- Athletics Alberta
- Basketball Alberta
- Alberta Curling Federation
- Alberta Golf
- Rugby Alberta
- Alberta Wrestling
- Alberta Badminton
- Alberta Cheerleading Association
- Football Alberta
- Alberta Junior Rugby Association
- Alberta Volleyball
- Alberta Team Handball Federation