AIC SPORT PRAISED IN 25-YEAR CELEBRATION
Last Thursday evening, The Associated Independent Colleges (AIC) celebrated 25 years of sport with an event held at Marist College. Representatives from the 9 AIC Schools attended the event along with a number of AIC Hall of Fame inductees, including SPC Old Boy, Drew Mitchell SPC'01.
The value of school sport in education has been hailed by a panel of high achievers in a 25-year celebration for the state’s largest private school sporting organisation.
The Associated Independent Colleges (AIC) brought together some of its most famous sporting graduates in a function at Marist College Ashgrove tonight to showcase the organisation’s milestone year.
The panel included members of the AIC’s Hall of Fame unveiled this year to mark 25 years of AIC sport and a former great of a member College who discussed the important of school sport in their lives.
Wallabies Grand Slam captain Andrew Slack (Villanova College), veteran Wallabies winger Drew Mitchell (St Patrick’s College, Shorncliffe) and Commonwealth Games weightlifting medallist Damon Kelly (St Laurence’s College) praised the importance of their school sporting participation.
Mitchell and Kelly were unveiled in the Hall of Fame that included athletes who recorded significant achievements after featuring in the first 25 years of AIC sport.
The list, featuring 25 past students from the eight AIC member Colleges across Brisbane and Ipswich, includes Olympic, Paralympic and Commonwealth Games medallists among 21 men to have represented their countries. Current Brisbane Lions AFL stars Charlie Cameron (Marist College, Ashgrove) and Harris Andrews (Padua College) were named in the Hall of Fame along with rugby union internationals from five countries, Paralympic Games summer and winter medallists and medallists at Olympic Games, World Championships and Commonwealth Games.
AIC competition is now offered across 14 sports for students from Years 5 to 12.
“Tonight marks a celebration of AIC sport. The AIC was established 25 years ago to enable Colleges with similar goals and a similar approach to sport to provide competition for students,”
Marist College Ashgrove Head of College and 2023 AIC Chair Michael Newman said.
The video featured at the celebration can be viewed via our YouTube Channel below.