By: Josh Rizzo Saturday, January 6, 2024, TRIB-LIVE Fox Chapel graduate Jessie Thiessen was picked for the North Coast Athletic Conference women’s soccer 40th anniversary all-decade team. Players had to compete in the NCAC between 2013-23 to be eligible. Thiessen, a 2017 Allegheny college graduate, helped the Gators reach the NCAA Division III tournament in […]
Caroline Slember never saw a wrestling match before her first practice last season as a member of the Foxes team. A year later, she and her pioneering teammates are making history as part of the school’s first all-female squad, and it’s something she never anticipated. “The sport of wrestling wasn’t on my mind in the […]
There are some challenges facing Nadine DeLeo and the Fox Chapel Area gymnastics team this season, not the least of them being the small group with which the coach has to work. Various injuries have left the team with just seven members at the beginning of the season. The longtime coach said she started with […]
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 […]
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 […]