5-to-4. The team also hosts its own tennis tournament each spring, entitled the Francis Carter Invitational. The MBA Soccer Program is led by the former Coach of Waterford United (Irish Premier League), Giles Cheevers. MBA Soccer captured the 2015 TSSAA Tennessee State Soccer Championship (DII-AA) with a 3-0 win over Christian Brothers High School (CBHS). Debate and forensics In addition to its academics programs, Montgomery Bell Academy has a separate debate and forensics program. The school offers Policy Debate to its students. Annually, Montgomery Bell Academy hosts its speech and debate tournament, the Southern Bell Forum. The tournament has a unique ranking system, where speaker points are accounted for in the final ranking system. Visual and Performing arts The Montgomery Bell Academy theater program has won awards at the Tennessee Theater Association. The school also performs its annual student-directed one-acts in April and May, where it invites the students to write and direct their original scripts. MBA also performs its annual musical with students from the Harpeth Hall School. The high school orchestra is known as the MBA Sinfonia. In popular culture Montgomery Bell Academy graduate Thomas Schulman, class of 1968, wrote the screenplay for the 1989 motion picture Dead Poets Society, which depicts a fictional school patterned after Montgomery Bell Academy. Robin Williams portrayed a character based on Sam Pickering, one of Schulman's teachers during his years at Montgomery Bell Academy. Notable alumni Lt. Gen. Frank Maxwell Andrews, aviation pioneer, World War II European commander, Andrews Air Force Base namesake Will Bartholomew NFL fullback Ridley Wills II, author, historian Jere Baxter, railroad entrepreneur Robin Beard, former member of U.S. House of Representatives David Briley, former Mayor of Nashville, TN Madison Smartt Bell, novelist Ty Chandler, Running back for the Minnesota Vikings R. A. Dickey, professional baseball pitcher and 2012 Cy Young Award winner Jacob M. Dickinson, U.S. Secretary of War Frank Drowota, former Chief Justice, Tennessee Supreme Court Morgan Entrekin, Grove/Atlantic, Inc. president J. Frederick Essary (1881-1942), journalist Jesse Hill Ford, novelist Bill Frist, former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Thomas Frist, founder of Hospital Corporation of America Brendan Kyle Hatcher, U.S. Diplomat Hunter Hillenmeyer, Chicago Bears linebacker John Jay Hooker, attorney, entrepreneur, politician Joseph Toy Howell III, author E. Bronson Ingram II, American businessman and billionaire Madison Jones, novelist Kevin M. Kruse, historian Oliver Kuhn, athlete Alan LeQuire, sculptor Ingle Martin, Football player (NFL Quarterback) Penn Murfee, professional baseball