Alumni in the News

The Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (PIAA) has named January 8-14 as Officials’ Appreciation Week. The designation is meant to honor sports officiants whose contributions and efforts are vital to conducting scholastic athletics. Within the Fox Chapel Area School District, there are many graduates who are involved in officiating at various levels, including Moe Barr, Jim...Read More

From the time they were young soccer players and then standouts on the Foxes girls soccer team, Fox Chapel Area alumnae Taylor Cohen and Dixon Veltri had big dreams of playing professional ball. The chances of that happening are infinitesimal, but the athletes beat the odds and made it to that elite level of play...Read More

Former Fox Chapel Area tennis player Karsten Lagerquist was recently voted by the students and faculty of Grove City College as the 2021-2022 Senior Man of the Year, the highest honor bestowed by the college. Karsten received the award in recognition of his exemplary athletic and academic contributions to the college. When Karsten was on...Read More

By: Ray Fisher Saturday, April 16, 2022, TRIB-LIVE Rich Kriston is recognized as one of the best heavyweights in the storied history of the Fox Chapel wrestling program. Kirston won three consecutive section titles from 1970-72 and was the first of 25 section champions at Fox Chapel in the ’70s. After two years of covid-related...Read More

Carrington Vaughn is a graduate of the Law School at the University of Arizona and just earned his JD! But he first started as a preferred walk-on for Arizona Football under RichRod, playing out his initial dream of playing D1 football. It’s been said there is more to sports than the game, from the back...Read More

Sarah Sinnott met Dixon Veltri about five years ago, when the two young women were playing on the Fox Chapel High School women’s soccer squad. “When I got there, it was her class that was the heart of our team,” said Sinnott, who graduated from high school in 2019 and is two years younger than...Read More

Fox Chapel graduate Annika Urban closed out another sensational cross country season with a 12th-place finish in the NCAA Division III meet Nov. 20 in Louisville, Ky. A week earlier, the Emory University sophomore placed first at the South Regional Championships, was named the South/Southeast Regional Female Athlete of the Year and was named to...Read More

The Case Western Reserve women’s soccer team is riddled with Western Pennsylvania roots across its entire roster. From Maggie Storti (Oakland Catholic) and Helina VanBibber (South Fayette) to Gretta Lazzara (Fox Chapel), Ella Copich (Allderdice) and Katie Rishel (Pine-Richland), the WPIAL alumni were part of a CWRU team who recently finished a historic 2021 season....Read More

Mike Kovak | Monday, Nov. 1, 2021, TRIB-LIVE Westminster women’s soccer has been the toast of the Presidents’ Athletic Conference this season. Consider Grove City a fast-rising side with serious momentum. And, if the seeds hold in the PAC tournament semifinals, the Titans and Wolverines will clash for a conference championship Saturday. There’s also a...Read More