Fox Chapel Area tennis coach Alex Slezak likes to find famous quotations that best reflect his messages and thoughts. When it comes to describing his own coaching philosophy, he thinks legendary NFL football coach Tom Landry said it best: “A coach’s job is to get players to do the things they don’t want to do […]
The fall sports season is winding down, and the Fox Chapel Area boys and girls cross country teams are exactly where they want to be at this time of the year – WPIAL Class 3A Section 4 champions. This is the boys fifth consecutive section title, while the girls earned their first team gold medal […]
By: Josh Rizzo Saturday, October 7, 2023, TRIB-LIVE Colin Martin has all the gizmos and gadgets to properly track his pace, but the Fox Chapel graduate also utilized his intelligence to know if he was on the right track to qualify for the U.S. Olympic marathon trials. Running in Grandma’s Marathon in Duluth, Minn., Martin […]
By: Josh Rizzo Saturday, September 30, 2023, TRIB-LIVE Jesse Foglia was named the head coach at the USRowing Training Center at Princeton at the right time to help American athletes pursue a chance to compete at the 2024 Olympics in Paris. The 2000 Fox Chapel graduate was hired to coach the team in January after […]
No one knows for sure if David Fuhrer has broken a scoring record playing on the Pittsburgh Field Club golf course, but one thing is sure: He played one heck of a great game at the recent tri-meet among the Fox Chapel, North Allegheny, and Sewickley Academy. At that match, he shot a six-under-par 30, […]