Blue Tornado Baseball

The Blue Tornado are led by Former Major League Baseball Player Tim Costo. Since Coach Costo joined McCallie's coaching staff in 2012, the program has claimed the TSSAA Division II-AA State Championship twice, was state runners up in 2017, and has made the division’s Final Four seven of the past 10 years (no state playoffs in 2020), and most recently winning the state title in 2022. 

The baseball program competes at the state’s highest level and has advanced to the state championship finals four times since 2007. The Blue Tornado have won three state titles – 1976, 2014, and 2022.

As a collegiate player at the University of Iowa, Coach Costo was a two-time All Big-10 Conference player, a two-time All-American, a member of Team USA, and a Golden Spikes Award nominee given to the nation’s top amateur baseball player. He was drafted in the first round as the eighth overall pick in the 1990 Major League Baseball Draft by the Cleveland Indians and played 10 years of professional baseball.

The newly-renovated and newly-named Kenny Sholl Stadium on campus has seen several improvements in the last few years, including reconstructed dugouts and a new LED scoreboard. The covered 6,600-square-foot hitting pavilion also received a facelift with new netting in the hitting tunnels, lighting, and weather-proofed fencing surrounding the training area. The playing surface is a newly-installed turf infield, the same surface used in many Major League Baseball stadiums.