Blue Tornado Track & Field

Track and field at McCallie is one of the oldest recorded sports in the school’s history. It is also one of the most popular and successful.

Mike Wood has served as McCallie’s track and field coach since 1991. During that span, McCallie has had 32 individual State Champions in 39 different events. He has led the Blue Tornado to runner up finishes as the state meet eight times and the 2021 TSSAA Division II-AA State Track and Field Championship.

McCallie track athletes have gone on to compete for Wake Forest, Florida State, Harvard, Cal, Princeton, Virginia, Washington & Lee, Davidson, Yale, Cornell, Williams, Amherst, Georgia Tech, Furman, Appalachian State, Sewanee, Wyoming, Alabama, Ole Miss, Samford, Stanford, George Washington and other fine colleges and universities. Alums Tim Franklin (Florida State), Riley Young (Ole Miss), Will Raby (Appalachian State), Taylor Smith (Virginia), Jack Jones (Washington & Lee), Davis Couch and Alan Long (Sewanee), Matthew Hudson (Wyoming), Dylan Carmack, Ramsay Ritchie and Pierce DeRico (Davidson), and Eric Peterson (Samford) all made major contributions as all-conference or conference champions for their respective universities.