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.