By Karen Kadilak | Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2016, TRIB-LIVE Two Fox Chapel graduates will continue their tennis careers with college teams in the fall. Siddharth Rajupet (Case Western) and Laurel Shymansky (Duquesne) made commitments. Rajupet, 18, of Indiana Township was a standout on a Fox Chapel boys squad that won its first WPIAL title and...Read More
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