Fox Chapel Area’s girls tennis team and boys swimming and diving team have been named the recipients of the 2020-2021 Team QPA Award. The girls tennis team earned a cumulative QPA (quality point average) of 4.162. The boys’ swimming and diving team placed second with an overall QPA of 3.883. Congratulations to both teams for...Read More
After dancing around the gold medal for the past two years, David Manelis finally won his final high school diving competition in grand style by winning the PIAA Class 3A boys diving championship. With his win, David became the first diver in school history, male or female, to win the state title. His 2021 score...Read More
March 3, 2021 The past week: Manelis posted a score of 571.75 to win the WPIAL Class 3A diving title for the second consecutive year. Check this out: Manelis, a senior and West Point recruit, is the first diver to win back-to-back titles by more than 100 points since Pine-Richland’s Dominic Giordano in 2012-13 and...Read More
Watching David Manelis dive is a powerful, yet beautiful experience. The height he gets on his takeoffs is twice that of his peers, and his picture-perfect, powerful form and major attention to every detail have combined to make him the most dominant diver in WPIAL Class 3A – twice. David just won his second consecutive...Read More
David Manelis is the top boys diver in WPIAL Class 3A, and has been all season, just as he was last year. He was aware of that, although he doesn’t spend a whole lot of time looking up that type of information. But when told he is also ranked first in the state, the humble...Read More
