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Top-Seeded Fox Chapel Breezes by North Hills

By Keith Barnes | Tri-State Sports & News Service March 8, 2022 Fox Chapel had gotten pushed around a bit by teams late in the season, so it wasn’t a huge surprise when North Hills scored a quick goal 2:20 into the game to take an early lead on the Foxes. That was also the […]

Post-Gazette Athlete of the Week: Sophie Shao

By Keith Barnes | Tri-State Sports & News Service March 8, 2022 The past week: Shao won two individual and two relay titles at the WPIAL Class 3A swimming finals at Pitt’s Trees Pool. Check this out: Shao, a junior, broke the longest-standing swimming record in the WPIAL when she went 53.85 seconds to win the 100-yard […]

Top Seeded Foxes Route North Hills

Post-Gazette, March 8, 2022 Fox Chapel had been pushed around a bit by teams late in the season, so it wasn’t a huge surprise when North Hills scored a quick goal 2:20 into the game Monday to take an early lead on the Foxes. That was the only time the Indians found the back of […]

Foxes Sending Record Number to States

When all was said and done, the Foxes swimming teams brought home four gold medals from the WPIAL Class 3A championships; the girls team was the runner up, finishing behind perennial powerhouse North Allegheny; and the boys finished fourth with what is believed to be the best finish in team history. Overall, this season, the […]

Sophie Shao Sets Sights on More

Many people might not know it, but All-American swimmer, three-peat WPIAL champion, and two-time state champion, Sophie Shao, also is quite an accomplished artist. But even she couldn’t have painted a better picture of what happened at the WPIAL Class 3A swimming championships, when the junior came away with four gold medals. As if that […]