Ron Frank is always on the hunt for athletes to join his wrestling team, and their gender doesn’t concern him at all. His philosophy is that good athletes can be trained in the techniques of the sport, as long as they have an outstanding work ethic, a desire to learn, and can withstand the rigors...Read More
It has been two decades since a Foxes’ boys’ swim team won a section title, but Coach Dan Taylor thinks this might be the year. His optimism comes on the heels of his concerted effort to rebuild a program that, five years ago, only had about six male swimmers. The 2018-2019 combined boys’ swim and...Read More
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...Read More
It didn’t take long for senior divers Jonah Cagley and Magnus Loeffler and sophomore David Manelis to qualify for the WPIAL Class AAA championships coming up in February. In fact, they did it at the very first meet of the regular season. In order to qualify, divers must attain a cumulative 9.7 difficulty on five...Read More
By: Michael Love, Thursday, January 3, 2019, TRIB-LIVE The WPIAL recently released a list of the top swim times from December dual meets, and a number of freshmen have crashed the party and posted leading performances. Quaker Valley’s Isabel Huang recorded the top 100-yard backstroke time in girls Class AA with a 1:00.51 in a dual meet against Beaver...Read More