The boys’ tennis and girls’ gymnastics teams are this year’s winners of the annual Team QPA Awards. Recipients are determined by the quality grade point average of the varsity team members. The boys’ varsity tennis team has an overall QPA of 4.071. In addition to their achievements in the classroom, the team is favored to...Read More
When Rachel Himmel and Nicole Garcia-Tunon joined the Foxes’ gymnastics team as freshmen four years ago, there were no seniors on the squad to mentor the younger girls. It was also Nadine Buchanan’s first year as head coach of the team. All of that has changed now, and more. The 2019 team has more depth...Read More
There were many individual school records broken during the winter season, and in many cases, the ink was barely dry before another one was set. Fox Chapel Area High School sent one team to the PIAA playoffs, eight individuals qualified for PIAAs, and many others advanced to the WPIAL championships. PIAA Medalist Jonah Cagley –...Read More
Collectively, the winter sports teams had one their most successful seasons ever. Almost every team proved that tenacity and hard work pay off, either by the amount of team victories, or an increased number of individual athletes who advanced to regional and state championships. There also was a nice influx of talented underclassmen that, along...Read More
While there are many armchair fans of televised gymnastics, it’s pretty safe to say that 99 percent of the student population at Fox Chapel Area High School has never attended one of the girls’ gymnastics team’s meets. It’s not necessarily that there’s a lack of interest in the sport, but the trend to hold high...Read More