STEVE ROTSTEIN AND MIKE WHITE, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 31, 2020 The WPIAL has decided to push back the start of football season to Sept. 10 and also delay the start of a few other fall sports. The move was made because of concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic and comes after the PIAA voted Wednesday to...Read More
By: Greg Macafee |Monday, June 22, 2020 | TRIB-LIVE Fox Chapel’s Scott Bitar was one of the top golfers in the WPIAL last season. Now, he’s looking forward to seeing how he stacks up against a different level of competition. Before he heads to Miami (Ohio) to play Division I golf in the fall, Bitar...Read More
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 5, 2020 While high school sports teams in the state are still waiting to hear when they are permitted to start offseason workouts because of the COVID-19 pandemic, youth sports and club teams around Pennsylvania can start practicing and playing games this weekend. That situation has high school athletic directors frustrated. “Not...Read More
The WPIAL board of directors met Monday afternoon, May 18, and released baseball and softball section alignments for the next two years. The biggest change is in the number of teams in Class 6A. Both sports lost about one-third of their teams, including Fox Chapel. For the next two years, WPIAL Class 6A baseball will...Read More
By: Jerin Steele, Monday, March 9, 2020, TRIB-LIVE During offseason training, first-year Fox Chapel softball coach Chris Olbrich kept seeing more and more girls show up to work out. It was a pleasant surprise for Olbrich, who was an assistant coach with the Foxes the past four seasons. The 2019 team had only 11 girls...Read More