McLean's 2011 season was another successful season for the Highlanders. The Highlanders went 6–4 in the regular season, beating archrival Langley High School 21–0 to close the regular season. The Highlanders then went over to Arlington the next week for the playoffs and fell to eventual Division 5 runner-up Yorktown High School 20–6. At the conclusion of the 2011 season, it was announced that Coach Jim Patrick would be promoted to Athletics Director and that McLean had hired Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology Defensive Coordinator Dennis Worek as the new head coach. After a 5–5 season in 2013, Worek retired, and was replaced with Shaun Blair, a former assistant coach from Lake Braddock Secondary School, as McLean's head football coach.