Bryan Deal figured this would be a year when he would need to rebuild his boys golf team. After all, everyone but one player from last year’s state championship team had graduated, and his starting lineup was untested on varsity, although they had gone undefeated last season as junior varsity players. However, Coach Deal’s anticipation...Read More

BY MIKE WHITE PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE, August 14, 2020 Nine years ago, it was the new Deal. After more than three decades on the high school and major-college level, Bryan Deal gave up football coaching, stepping down at Fox Chapel High School. He went cold turkey, giving up something he had done for almost two-thirds of...Read More

After winning the PIAA and WPIAL Class 3A championships last fall, some members of the Foxes boys golf team got together one last time to play at 2020 High School National Invitational at Pinehurst Resort in Pinehurst, N.C. The group represented Pennsylvania at the tournament and finished fourth in the nation, only six strokes behind...Read More

STEVE ROTSTEIN AND MIKE WHITE, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 31, 2020 The WPIAL has decided to push back the start of football season to Sept. 10 and also delay the start of a few other fall sports. The move was made because of concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic and comes after the PIAA voted Wednesday to...Read More

When recent graduate Arnold Vento found out he was selected as the Western Pennsylvania Positive Male Multisport Athlete winner for 2019-2020, he could not have been more surprised. But it is a well-deserved honor for the rising Penn State freshman who hopes to become an aerospace engineer. When reviewing all of the nominations, the Positive...Read More