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Bowen Leads Cross Country Team to Victory in McCallie Invitational by a Single Point

On Friday night, the McCallie football team scored 35 points against Montgomery Bell Academy and won by 35. On Saturday morning, the Blue Tornado cross country team scored 35 points against MBA in the McCallie Invitational and won by a single point (35-36) over the Big Red. Baylor was a distant third with 109 points.

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Ben Verdery in Concert at McCallie

On Thursday night, it will just be Verdery, his guitars, and his stories of the guitar legends he’d interacted with. It may not match venues such as Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center, places he’s played his classical guitar in the past, but the setting is far less important to Verdery than the music he plays there.

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McCallie Says a Proper Goodbye to Bill Royer

As Royer would certainly have approved, a lot of McCallie alums and their spouses, as well as current and former faculty and staff, traveled to the Chattanooga Westin on Saturday evening, September 16, to celebrate the life of the beloved French teacher, dorm head, and theater program director who passed away on June 26 at the age of 74. Some reportedly came from as far away as Denver, Los Angeles, Northern Virginia, and Seattle.

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Joltin’ Ja’Von Leads McCallie Over Brentwood Academy 29-15 on ESPNU

BRENTWOOD, TN _ When it comes to top-ranked McCallie playing road games in TSSAA Division II Class AAA, they’re all starting to look alike. Both the sizzling starts and the fragile finishes.

But one thing they all have in common is the Ja’Von Jolt, and it’s electrifying to behold.

 
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ROAD TRIP: Or Thirty-Six Hours “Embedded” with the Top-Ranked Blue Tornado Football Team During its Overnight Trip to Memphis

With a game in Memphis scheduled for this past Friday at Memphis University School, communications department employee Mark Wiedmer ‘76 decided to tag along, or as Head Football Coach Ralph Potter referred to him, “our embedded reporter.” 

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Remembering 9-11

If you drive past the front of the McCallie Chapel today, you’ll see a sea of small American flags in the front yard. All told, there will be 2,977 of them stuck in the grass _ one for every person killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attack 22 years ago.

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McCallie Survives MUS Air Show In 42-35 Road Win

MEMPHIS _ With three quarters to play in Friday night’s McCallie-MUS football game, it looked like another certain win for the top-ranked Blue Tornado, which led 7-0 and owned the line of scrimmage against their hosts.

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First GPS-McCallie Pickleball Tourney a “Monumental Success”
To be blunt, they looked a little out of place in Monday’s 90-plus degree heat and blazing sun. But there stood junior boarding students Grant Sutherland and Oliver Moore wearing neckties, white dress shirts, and blue blazers as they took to the tennis courts/pickleball courts with 70 of their friends for the GPS/McCallie Coed Pickleball Tournament.

“We wanted to win best dressed,” said Sutherland. “We wanted to dress for success.”

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McCallie Looks in the Mirror and Blasts the St. Xavier Bombers 34-11
 

McCallie, ranked No. 1 in Tennessee, looked almost like they were playing themselves at kickoff on the perfect early autumn night. But once the game began, it was McCallie authoring one of the most impressive non-TSSAA Division II wins in school history, more than doubling St. X in total yardage _ 392 to 184 _ and first downs (18-7).

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McCallie Mountain Biking Team Shows Promise in First Race

Last Sunday, the first McCallie varsity mountain bike event showed promise for the Blue Tornado squad at Chickasaw Trace Park in Columbia, Tennessee. All five members scored points for the team in a crowded field with temperatures over 95 degrees and only a week to practice.

 
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