After ending last season with a 7-1 section record and going 12-4 overall, including getting to the second round of the postseason playoffs, girls tennis coach Alex Slezak looks forward to seeing what his experienced corps can accomplish this season. Veteran seniors Carissa Shepard and Katie Voigt have been with the team for four years...Read More

When you play for one of the most storied high school golf programs in the region, let alone the state, each year the bar gets raised a little higher to carry on the proud tradition. For Fox Chapel Area High School, it all started in 1961 when the boys golf program was inaugurated. Now, many...Read More

Senior running back Zidane Thomas’ best memory of playing Fox Chapel Area football is actually one that started out not so good. When he was a sophomore and the team was playing Armstrong High School, he fumbled the ball at the end of the third quarter and was devastated. “I came back in the second...Read More

In the six years that Aleta Balcer has overseen the middle and high school cheerleading programs, she must have heard the rallying chant, “Goooo Foxes!” a million times. It never gets old, though. It’s a job she relishes and one that has turned into a labor of love. When Coach Balcer first took over the...Read More

Now entering their senior years, two of the Foxes’ top athletes are very glad they have already checked off one of the most anxiety-producing tasks – taking the SAT. Russell Fenton, a member of the section champions Foxes basketball team, and Ashton Schutzman, a tri-sport athlete, aced their standardized college entrance exams on their first...Read More