By Karen Kadilak | Sunday, July 24, 2016, TRIB-LIVE Fox Chapel tennis coach Alex Slezak has earned an impressive honor. Slezak, 34, of Hampton was named the recipient of the 2015 United States Tennis Association Middle States Allegheny Mountain District High School Coach of the Year Award. He was picked from a group of candidates...Read More
Fox Chapel Area High School was well represented at the WPIAL and PIAA championships this spring. Seven out of the school’s eight spring sports teams – baseball, boys’ and girls’ lacrosse, softball, boys’ tennis and girls’ track and field and boys’ track – all advanced to the WPIAL playoffs. For the first time in school...Read More
This was a year of many firsts and fantastic outcomes for Alex Slezak, coach of the Fox Chapel Area High School boys’ and girls’ tennis teams. One of those highlights was having his peers elect him as the United States Tennis Association (USTA) Middle States-Allegheny Mountain Region High School Coach of the Year. But true...Read More
Robby Shymansky and Sidd Rajupet made PIAA history over Memorial Day weekend when they won the bronze and silver medals at the PIAA Class AAA boys’ singles tennis championship held in Hershey, PA. It was the first time in state history that two teammates shared the singles’ winners’ podium. “There are 3,000 players in high school tennis...Read More
The Foxes’ Boys’ Tennis Team concluded their outstanding season this weekend by winning the silver medal at the PIAA Class AAA championships. Their loss inthe finals to Lower Merion High School was the only blemish on an otherwise perfect year packed full of high achievements. In his first season coaching the boys’ squad, Alex Slezak led them...Read More