One goal of Fox Chapel Area’s girls basketball coaches and their athletes this season is to grow into a more player-led team on which the girls assume more accountability and responsibility for outcomes. The effort started in earnest last May and was proceeding nicely into the infancy of the 2023-2024 season. But an unexpected twist...Read More

Last year,  it took the Foxes cheerleaders two tries to generate a first-ever invitation to the prestigious National High School Cheerleading Championship at Disney World in Orlando. Now, one year later, they have done it again.  The team will compete in the small varsity division 1 non-tumbling group along with teams from across the country. The...Read More

As the winter sports season begins at Fox Chapel Area, there is a new offering available. For the first time, Fox Chapel Area has a girls wrestling team. Girls wrestling had never been a sanctioned standalone sport in Pennsylvania until the summer of 2023. A roster of 15 girls is taking to the mat for...Read More

Many members of the Fox Chapel Area boys wrestling team saw significant action on the mat last season, and head coach Michael Frank is excited about the wealth of experience they’ll bring to this year’s squad. “We didn’t graduate too many seniors, and only one senior from our starting lineup graduated,” he said. “It’s huge....Read More

Fox Chapel Area diving coach Vernon Yenick succinctly summed up how he feels about this year’s team: He expects it to be “super strong.”  “I feel like this is going to be a great year,” he said. There are many reasons coach Yenick, who is in his 16th year as coach, feels that way, not...Read More