The Fox Chapel Area girls soccer team is entering the 2021 season after losing only one regular-season game last year. They had a lot of graduating seniors, but this is a resilient program with talented players who are spread across all grade levels. Coach Peter Torres talks here about what to expect this season. QUESTION: […]
After ending last season with a 7-1 section record and going 12-4 overall, including getting to the second round of the postseason playoffs, girls tennis coach Alex Slezak looks forward to seeing what his experienced corps can accomplish this season. Veteran seniors Carissa Shepard and Katie Voigt have been with the team for four years […]
When you play for one of the most storied high school golf programs in the region, let alone the state, each year the bar gets raised a little higher to carry on the proud tradition. For Fox Chapel Area High School, it all started in 1961 when the boys golf program was inaugurated. Now, many […]
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 […]
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 […]