Independent Girls Schools Sports Association (Western Australia)

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Independent Girls Schools Sports Association (Western Australia), or IGSSA (WA), is the group that organises interschool sports for eight private girls’ schools in Western Australia. It is based in Brigadoon and uses English.

IGSSA was founded in 1963 as the Independent Girls Schools Sports Association (Perth). It offers sports and cultural activities for its member schools. The first events were the Athletics Carnival at Perry Lakes Stadium in 1963 and the Interschool Swimming Meet at Beatty Park in 1965.

In 1967 the association adopted a constitution to organise interschool fixtures and finances for members of the Association of Principals of Independent Girls Schools Western Australia. In that year the schools briefly renamed themselves the Independent Girls Schools Sportsmistresses Association. After a 1985 review, the name was changed to Independent Girls Schools Sports Association (Western Australia).