By: Michael Love , Wednesday, December 25, 2019, TRIB-LIVE In the latter stages of the third quarter of Friday’s game at WPIAL power North Allegheny, the Fox Chapel girls basketball team led the Class 6A No. 2 Tigers, 31-25, and had designs on finishing off a key early-season Section 1 victory. However, North Allegheny battled […]
David Manelis, last year’s PIAA Class 3A diving runner-up, describes himself as a very outgoing person who enjoys talking to people. But when he approaches the diving board, it’s a totally different matter. That’s when his ability to maintain total focus on the moment sets in. “Mental toughness is definitely an important part of diving,” […]
Fox Chapel Area Boys Basketball Coach Zach Skrinjar is very superstitious, so for him to go out on a limb and say he has a good feeling about this year’s group of basketball players is, to say the least, very atypical. “I don’t really tell people that,” he says, “but this group excites me because […]
The Foxes’ senior swimmers are proud of a distinction that no others before or after them can ever claim: They are the first (and only) class that was part of the original group that inaugurated the new pool when it opened in 2016 and then swam in it all four years of high school. During […]
By: George Guido, Friday, Dec. 13, 2019, TribLive HSSN It was a night for sophomores to shine as Fox Chapel won its fourth game of the season, leading Penn Hills the entire way to a 66-45 final. Eli Yofan led the Foxes with 16 points, 11 rebounds and four steals while J.P. Dockey had 13 […]