Christian McCaffrey has taken the football world by storm. He has come out as one of the front runners for the MVP award. A non-QB to do so in decades! But knowing the pedigree of his parentage, this should not come as a shock!

Born to former Super Bowl winner Ed McCaffrey and Lisa McCaffrey in 1996. CMC inherits sporting qualities from both sides of his family. His maternal grandfather was once the fastest man on the planet and his mother, Lisa McCaffrey, was herself a sensational soccer player.

It is in Christian McCaffrey’s blood

CMC’s mother Lisa (nee. Sime) had inherited sporting qualities from her decorated father, Dave Sime. And just like her siblings, she too went on to excel at sports from a young age. In her college days, she played soccer at Stanford, where she would meet the footballer and her future husband Ed McCaffrey.

But soccer wasn’t her first love! Just like her dad, she too, loved running and track. Apart from that, she excelled in tennis as well, getting lettered on four occasions.

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Lisa also created history by receiving Vanderbilt University’s first-ever scholarship for women’s soccer. She would eventually turn it down to go to Stanford. But this was not her first tryst with records, as her father set multiple ones!

This doctor can run

Lisa’s father, Dave, was an exceptional human being. Sime performed superbly in baseball, football, and track & field. He earned several scholarships for each sport and he chose the baseball scholarship from Duke University.

There, he continued playing all sports. But switched to running full time during the offseason to stay in shape for baseball. He went on to break and tie several high-speed records in the 1950s. And earned a silver medal at the 1960 Olympics. Not only that, Sime was drafted by the Detroit Lions at the 1959 NFL draft.

But after the Olympics disappointment, Christian McCaffrey’s grandfather chose to continue with medical school and leave his athletic career behind. Ending up as a renowned ophthalmologist performing more than 10,000 operations, before passing away in 2016.

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