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Family Motivates Wrestler

By: Josh Rizzo Saturday, February 18, 2023, TRIB-LIVE Josh Alexander had one of his brothers work on lighting a fire underneath him. With the Alexander family, there is a lot of successful family history on the wrestling mat. Both of Alexander’s brothers wrestled at Maryland, and his father competed at Clarion. The 139-pound Fox Chapel […]

Girl Basketball Player

Senior Spotlight: Elsie Smith

By: Abby King Monday, February 13, 2023, TRIB-LIVE After coming off a tough season, Fox Chapel’s girls basketball team has quite a lot to be proud of this winter, putting itself in the playoff chase. Contributing to the success is the lone senior, Elsie Smith. “Last year was a very difficult season for us, but […]

Sophie Shao: ‘Racing Against Myself’

As a freshman, Sophie Shao came to the Foxes swim team already a star. Now a senior, she is just as exceptional as she was then. Exceptionally competitive, intelligent, and full of vigor and positivity, Sophie has achieved a career that has been marked by the kind of perseverance and mental toughness that leads to […]

Coach Skrinjar Never Quits Teaching

When coach Zach Skrinjar ends his day job as a middle school history teacher at North Hills Middle School, he doesn’t leave that identity far behind when he walks out the door. Rather, for many months out of the year, he begins his second part of the day as head coach of the Foxes boys […]