The North Jersey Interscholastic Conference, or NJIC, is a high school athletic conference located in New Jersey. It is one of the so-called "super conferences" created by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) as a part of a realignment of high school sports leagues in North and Central New Jersey announced in 2009.
A total of 37 public and private high schools are part of the NJIC. Most of the schools are located in Bergen County, with the rest in Passaic County and Hudson County.
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Increasing conflict over competitive imbalance in New Jersey high school sports leagues led to the formation of a committee to study the issue in 2008. The group proposed to disband the 11 athletic conferences in the northern part of the state and create six larger "super conferences".[1]
After a lengthy series of meetings and revisions, final implementation of the plan took place with the start of the 2010-11 school year. In the northeast corner of New Jersey, two super conferences emerged: the Big North Conference for larger schools and the NJIC for smaller schools.[2]
All NJIC schools were previously associated with two previous conferences: The Bergen County Scholastic League and the Bergen-Passaic Scholastic League. Most of the BCSL's members joined the NJIC, but the largest BCSL schools went to the Big North Conference instead. All B-PSL schools were slated to move to the NJIC.[3] However, Paterson Catholic High School closed in the spring of 2010 and therefore never joined the NJIC.[4]
Pascack Hills High School was a member of the B-PSL for football only; it was part of the North Bergen Interscholastic Athletic League for all other sports and is the only NBIAL school to join the NJIC. Three other schools--Hawthorne Christian, Mary Help of Christians and Saddle River Day--had been independent prior to the start of the realignment process. Those schools were placed in the BCSL or B-PSL as a transitional step before the NJIC began play.[5]
Fall Sports
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Winter Sports
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Spring Sports
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The NJIC is divided into three divisions, largely along geographic lines, with each containing an "A" and "B" subdivision based on the size of the schools. Because not all conference members participate in football and wrestling, different divisions exist for those sports.[6]
Colonial Division A
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Colonial Division B
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Meadowlands Division A
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Meadowlands Division B
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Patriot Division A
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Patriot Division B
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