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

When 6’8” Jack Reese played volleyball for the Foxes from 2012 to 2015 (he was only 6’5” back then), he was one of the most prolific players to ever come out of the school’s program and the WPIAL. The first-team all-WPIAL and all-state player helped lead the Foxes to win the 2015 WPIAL championship that...Read More

When 2020 graduate Shane Susnak was the starting quarterback for the Foxes football team, he helped lead it to the playoffs in his senior year; broke the previous school passing record with nearly 2,000 yards; and was named the Big 56 first-team quarterback for the Northern Conference. Now an upcoming sophomore at Notre Dame, Shane...Read More