By: Ray Fisher , Friday, March 1, 2019, TRIB-LIVE Zach Skrinjar has been coaching at Fox Chapel for a decade. The Foxes have qualified for the WPIAL playoffs seven times in the past 10 seasons, including six of the past seven years. This year’s team is 16-8 and advanced to the Class 6A quarterfinal round....Read More
By: Marty Stewart , Saturday, February 23, 2019, TRIB-LIVE Ellie Schwartzman, a sophomore on the Fox Chapel girls basketball team, helped the team’s turnaround this season as she averaged 9 points and 8 rebounds. She’s been playing basketball since first grade and is also on the volleyball team. Here’s a closer look at this week’s...Read More
If you watch wrestler Avery Bursick before he steps into the limelight on the mat, what you’ll notice is a serious, quiet, and focused young man who doesn’t like to interrupt his concentration by listening to music or joking around too much with his teammates. His intensity is palpable, and the senior, who competes in...Read More
The morning of the 2019 WPIAL Class AAA diving championships, Jonah Cagley started his day just like he would on any other Saturday. He slept in late, made himself an egg sandwich, and then started to watch the television show “How to Get Away With Murder,” while he rolled out his muscles and stretched. But,...Read More
People who have never witnessed a high school wrestling match don’t know what they are missing. It’s one of the most grueling sports – and maybe the toughest of all of them – and pushes an athlete’s outer limits of strength, flexibility, endurance, and mental stamina. Seven Foxes’ grapplers passed the test February 23 at...Read More