On the heels of the school’s first football state championship since 2001 and its first cross country state title in seven years, McCallie finished ranked No. 13 in the 2019 fall sports national MaxPreps Cup standings for boys’ schools.
The MaxPreps Cup determines the top high school athletic programs in the country based on state tournament finishes as well as other factors.
The cross country team’s five scoring runners all finished in the top 14 at the TSSAA Division II-AA state meet to secure the team title in early November, and one month later the football team beat Montgomery Bell Academy 28-7 for the DII-AAA state title.
McCallie totaled 456 points in the MaxPreps boys’ standings for fall 2019, with Indiana’s Carmel finishing first at 739, well ahead of Montana’s Bozeman (627) in second place and Kentucky’s Trinity (613) in third. Signal Mountain (418) was No. 23 as the only other Tennessee school in the top 25.
The Blue Tornado’s success continued after the fall sports season this past school year, when the swimming and diving team tied with rival Baylor in February to share the Tennessee Interscholastic Swim Coaches Association boys’ state title for 2020, McCallie’s 21st overall in the pool.