By: Marty Stewart , Friday, April 26, 2019, TRIB-LIVE This is the first in a series of profiles on the 2019 Fox Chapel Sports Hall of Fame inductees. The banquet is June 8 at The Harmar House. For more information, contact Jim Perry at gymbeck63@aol.com. Doug Ostrosky graduated from Fox Chapel in 1994. He excelled...
By Drew Karpen, Big 5/6 News, April 23, 2019 Krystyna Burdelski went 2-0 with a 1.16 ERA and 1.67 WHIP in a pair of complete games last week for Westminster College. She fired a one-hit shutout in Westminster’s 9-0 (5 inn.) game two victory over Presidents’ Athletic Conference rival, Bethany College, last Thursday. Over 15...
By: Jerin Steele, Saturday, January 12, 2019, TRIB-LIVE Fox Chapel native Chad Veltri put up good numbers in net at every level of hockey he had played in the last few years, and this season he got a long-awaited chance to play in the USHL, the top junior hockey league in the country. But after a...
Walker Brooke is a 2015 graduate of Fox Chapel Area High School and ran cross country for two seasons. Currently, he is a senior at the University of Oklahoma where he is studying finance and sports management, and is an intern in the school’s athletic department. Q: What are you doing now that’s related to...
Two former Fox Chapel Area High School girls’ soccer players have continued their dominance in the sport, only now with NCAA Division III teams that are currently ranked in the top-25. At least one other player is on a squad that was among that elite group during the regular season. Taylor Cohen, a 2016 graduate,...
Abby Pitcairn, a Fox Chapel Area 2017 graduate, is having quite a freshman year at the University of North Carolina. She is a midfielder on the NCAA Division I top-ranked women’s field hockey team that automatically advanced to the November 9 NCAA playoffs. After posting a 19-0 record, the team also earned its 21st Atlantic...
Today, most people would recognize Fox Chapel Area grad Craig Mauro as the doctor who treated their orthopedic issues. Or, perhaps others know him as just another fellow parent who enjoys helping out with his children’s sports teams. But “in the day,” Dr. Mauro was a talented three-sport high school athlete who earned eight letters,...
Former Foxes’ soccer players Jourdan Gottlieb and Lauren Kelly didn’t share the field when they were in high school, but today they enjoy a different kind of camaraderie as part of a growing number of women professionals who work in the National Football League (NFL). Jourdan, a 2010 alum, works in social media for the...
People who question the benefits of high school sports really should talk to 1997 Fox Chapel Area High School graduate Dann Kabala. A former quad athlete who played football, basketball, track, and baseball for the Foxes, Dann says his positive experiences had a huge impact on him, and even led to the career choices he’s...