Brandon Peifer, Fox Chapel Area School District’s interscholastic strength and conditioning head coach and a Fox Chapel Area High School social studies teacher, has been named the 2020 State Coach of the Year by the National High School Strength Coaches Association (NHSSCA). This award is given annually to high school strength and conditioning coaches in...Read More

It’s been some kind of year for the Foxes’ boys basketball program – gratifying, exhausting, and fun –  as players accomplished a milestone that only one other team in school history has done before: They won 20 consecutive games over the course of the regular season and ended up 21-1. The only other time that...Read More

When Coach Bob Siar shook hands with the team’s oldest wrestlers at the Foxes’ recent senior and alumni night, it was bittersweet. After an illustrious 55-year career with the sport and many personal victories on the mat – including personal WPIAL and PIAA state champion titles and another 30 years as a coach – he...Read More

By: Marty Stewart , Friday, February 7, 2020, TRIB-LIVE Now in his 11th season as coach of the Fox Chapel boys basketball team, Zach Skrinjar remains one of the most successful and underrated coaches in the WPIAL. His teams have qualified for the WPIAL playoffs eight times, and he has won over 160 games. This...Read More

Aleta Balcer wasn’t ever a cheerleader herself, but she’s been about as close as you can get to the sport without actually springing into mid-air to perform Herkies or toe-touches. “I played volleyball for two years in high school,” says the cheer coach who first got involved in the activity when her younger sister was...Read More