Fox Chapel Herald notebook: Fox Chapel names hall of fame Class of 2025

By: Josh Rizzo
Saturday, April 19, 2025 | 11:01 AM

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The Fox Chapel Area Sports Hall of Fame announced its Class of 2025. Six inductees will be honored during a banquet May 31.

The inductees are:

• Jason Lennon, Class of 1991, Soccer/baseball

• Dan Tublin, 2010, Volleyball

• Jason Kolod, 2011, diving

• Erin Mathias, 2014, basketball

• Brian Papich, 2014, basketball/track

• Mary Jo Dunlap, special recognition

Chiu recognized

Fox Chapel’s Milo Chiu was selected from a pool of 158 students around the WPIAL to be one of the recipients of the 34th annual WPIAL James Collins Scholar-Athlete Award. There were 20 candidates, 10 male and 10 female, chosen to win the award.

During Chiu’s career at Fox Chapel, he collected 12 varsity letters: four each in soccer, track and field and wrestling. As a senior, Chiu was named all-state in soccer.

During his junior year, Chiu finished second in the section wrestling tournament.

He also excelled in the classroom with a 4.4 GPA.

Chiu was also heavily involved in the community and did volunteer work.

Gwin paying dues

Appalachian State freshman runner Rowan Gwin has been working on finding a way to climb the rankings in the NCAA Southeast Regional. Thus far, Gwin has found his way into the top 50. He has the 37th-fastest time in the 1,500-meter run.

Gwin’s best time is 3 minutes, 49.56 seconds. Virginia’s Gary Martin leads the regional with a time of 3:33.71.

FC girls lacrosse wins

The Foxes have maintained their position in the playoff race thanks to their excellent scoring attack. Fox Chapel continued to pile up the goals during a section win over Butler. Caroline Leland led the Foxes with four goals in a 15-7 win over the Golden Tornado.

Caroline Grimsley added three goals and two assists, and Zehra Ozkaya and Meg Delaney also added three goals apiece.

SSA duo gets started

Shady Side Academy graduates Rachel Jones and Sydney Birchard are working on finding their footing in college lacrosse. Jones has made three appearances in goal for Franklin & Marshall, which is 12-2 overall and 4-0 in Centennial Conference play.

Birchard has appeared in four matches and has collected four ground balls this season.

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