Catholic Central League - Expanding

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

February 5th, 2020

CCL

Gordie McClay, President

781-843-1237

Catholic Central League (CCL) Expanding for 2020-21

Two south schools added to strengthen further the state’s premier co-ed, Catholic schools conference.  

The Catholic Central League (CCL) is excited to announce the addition of two more highly competitive programs for the start of the 2020-21 school year. Bishop Feehan High School in Attleboro, MA, and Bishop Stang High School in Dartmouth, MA, will be joining the Catholic Central League, further strengthening one of the premier co-ed athletic leagues in the Commonwealth. 

The CCL has long been a leader in educational athletics, promoting exemplary sportsmanship, healthy competition, athletic excellence, and scholarly achievement. Comprised of Catholic, co-educational high schools from the North Shore to the South Shore, the CCL is rich in shared values and traditional rivalries.

With the addition of Bishop Feehan and Bishop Stang, the CCL includes 12 schools that excel at the highest level. In the past five years, these schools have combined to win over 20 state championships across a variety of sports. From earning state tournament berths to having graduates excel in all divisions at the college level, the CCL represents the very best in high school sports for young men and women.

In the CCL, each school has its own unique strengths, programs, culture, and emphasis, and all share the same mission to provide the powerfully formative and transformative experience of a co-ed, college prep, Catholic education. From Arlington to Attleboro, from Boston to Braintree, the CCL is stronger with these additions and poised to reach even greater heights in the coming decade.

For most sports, the newly-expanded CCL will be comprised of three divisions: Feehan, Stang, Archbishop Williams High School (Braintree) and Cardinal Spellman High School (Brockton) in the South; Arlington Catholic High School (Arlington), Austin Preparatory School (Reading), Bishop Fenwick High School (Peabody) and St. Mary’s High School (Lynn) in the North; Cathedral High School (Boston), Cristo Rey High School (Boston), Matignon High School (Cambridge) and Saint Joseph Prep High School (Boston) in the Small. League athletic directors are already working on details and logistics for the fall of 2020 and beyond to allow for north-south alignment, large-small scheduling, and an approach to inter-scholastic competition that benefits all of the CCL schools and student-athletes.

Finally, as the power rankings concept comes to the MIAA tournament in nearly all sports, under this configuration winning CCL teams will have the types of resumes to ensure earning the tournament bids and high seeds they deserve.  

AWHS Swim - The Bishops will participate in the South Sectional Swim Championship this weekend

BISHOPS GO INTO THE POSTSEASON AT THE MIAA SOUTH SECTIONALS SWIM CHAMPIONSHIPS THIS WEEKEND

The Bishops are sending a school-record number of competitors to MIT this weekend to compete against over 35 other schools in the South Sectional Swimming Championships on Saturday and Sunday.

The Girls South Sectional competition is on Saturday morning at MIT. Liz Galicki ’21 has qualified to compete in the 50 Freestyle and 100 Backstroke and Nicole Miller ’21 has qualified to compete in the 200 Freestyle and the 100 Butterfly. Each girl had to clock a time below the qualifying standard to compete in this event during the regular dual meet season or the CCL Championships. Liz is seeded 4^th in the 50 Free and 6^th in the 100 Backstroke. Nicole is seeded 15^th in the 200 Free and 20^th in the 100 Butterfly.

The Bishops qualified all three relays, the 200 Medley Relay, the 200 Freestyle Relay 200 and the 400 Freestyle Relay for the Sectional Meet. This is the first time the Bishops qualified three relay teams for the Sectionals for the first time Bishops Swimming History.  On the relays, Liz and Nicole will be joined by Lauren O’Brien ’21, Captain Megan Miller ’20, Grace Mahoney ’22 and Megan Baio ’24.

The boy's Sectional Meet is on Sunday morning. The boys qualified a relay team for the first time in Bishop’s Swimming History by meeting the Sectional time standards in the 200 Freestyle Relay and 400 Freestyle Relay. The Bishops are coming off a hot meet last Sunday where they broke the CCL League Meet record in both events and won both events going away. Representing Archbishop Williams will be Sam Rossini ‘21, Kevin Pegurri ‘21, Captain Teddy Rossini ‘20, Abayomi Graham ’21 and Evan O’Brien ’24.