After the PIAA Class 3A West Regional Championships, senior Michael Worsen thought his season was over as he had missed the cutoff to qualify for the state meet. Disappointing, but he’d already amassed an impressive high school career record of 98-42, and he figured he had ended his career and was proud of what he’d...Read More
By: Josh Rizzo Saturday, February 1, 2025, TRIB-LIVE Landon Funk had the idea planted in his head of reaching 100 wins as a varsity wrestler in 2017. Funk admired Foxes wrestler Mike Mahon and was in the crowd when he hit the century mark. During the Frank Ferguson Brooke Classic at Brooke High School in...Read More
By: Josh Rizzo Saturday, January 25, 2025, TRIB-LIVE Fox Chapel wrestling coach Michael Frank was proud of how balanced the Foxes’ lineup proved to be at the Allegheny County Championships. The Foxes finished third in the team standings despite not having a wrestler reach the finals. “It shows how well they wrestled as a group,”...Read More
Fox Chapel Area High School’s gymnasiums soon will transform into the epicenter of high school wrestling as the 23rd annual Allegheny County High School Wrestling Championships begin on January 17. The two-day event draws sell-out crowds, nearly 100 volunteers, and the county’s most talented wrestlers, including several of Fox Chapel Area’s own medalists from last...Read More
Please reiterate your personal history of wrestling at Fox Chapel Area High School and when you started. I started wrestling at Fox Chapel Area when we moved here as a family in 1988 at 6 years old, and I haven’t really left the program since. I competed for my dad and (former coach) Bob Siar...Read More