“Spikeball has always been in my blood,” said Sam Cavanagh, vice president of the new and rapidly growing ARHS Spikeball Club. In fact, when he first played in elementary school, he said it was...

Boys’ basketball had an even start to the season, with a 2-3 record, but in early December, team members said they had hopes of turning over more wins in the months to come. The...

It’s Tuesday at 4 p.m. and ARHS senior Juliet Coleman is where she almost always is at that time, on the ice practicing for her next big show. She smiles as she races past...

The ARHS Alpine Ski team, which practices regularly at Berkshire East Mountain, is led by senior captains Alex Cain, Thea Binzen, and Roka Gould, under the guidance of teacher-coaches Simon Leutz, Gloria Davis, and...

This year’s Nordic team is large, with about 60 skiers. According to freshman Ian Burns, some standout skiers are Julian Camera, Tesh Jaswal, Addie Mager, and Zoey Candito, all captains.  “Ella Workman is another...

The ARHS indoor track and field team is spearheaded by a strong group of juniors and seniors who are ready to take a huge step forward from previous years.  Coming off a top-three finish...

This year’s regional varsity hockey team includes seven seniors: Skyler Ferro, Evan Scott, Josh Goodhind, Cooper Beckwith, Liam Flynn, Yuuki Ishida, and Ethan Nompleggi. In addition to that crew, the team includes a handful...

As most people from Amherst may know, getting recruited can seem like a pipe dream.   One student-athlete has risen above these obstacles and is now a committed DII athlete. Francesca Sloan has played lacrosse...

The Amherst Hurricanes football team was on an impressive journey this fall, turning last season’s struggles into a successful 4-0 record at the start of their season. With leadership and talent at its core,...

ARHS sophomore Sofia DaSilva-Askew has been playing tennis since she was four years old. “My sister was originally supposed to play but I got more into it,” she said. “ I remember winning my...

The track team at ARHS needs runners. With about nine girls on the team and 20-30 boys, the team is hoping for new athletes in the coming years. While the 2023 spring season has...

Senior Charles May, captain of the baseball team, developed his love for baseball when his father Tom May showed him the game at four years old. May fell in love and has been playing...

Boys’ Ultimate had a great season this year, winning all their regular games except one, placing fourth and second in two big Massachusetts tournaments, and capturing the State championship for the 26th year in...

I recently had the pleasure of being able to sit down with Billy McBride, a YMCA Youth of the Year winner at age 17 (he had a car and an apartment by then); NFL...

ARHS’s junior class president Neil Patrick Cunniffe runs a sports photography business/brand under the name NPC Flics. Since 2020, Cunniffe has photographed the athletes and crowds at ARHS sports games. Cunniffe is also an...

Audrey Bowen is a senior at ARHS, who, like many students, faces an injury that sets her back as an athlete. I spoke with her to learn about her injury, how she recovered from...

Sara Baxter, ARHS class of 2022, is a freshman at Stony Brook University in Suffolk County, NY where she is studying civil engineering and swimming at the Division I level, coached by Mark Anderson...

Louis Douville Beaudoin is an 18 year old ultimate Frisbee player from Amherst Massachusetts who made the US ultimate team; in exciting news, that group went on to win the World Ultimate Championship. He...

Justin Webb is ARHS’s Athletic Trainer. Webb deals with hundreds of teen athletes per sports season keeping us all safe and healthy. His motto is “the noblest art is that of making others happy.”...

With historically strong teams, four Western Mass wins in the last five years, and having qualified for states for more than 30 years consecutively, the members of the girls’ cross country team went into...

 On October 30, the Amherst girls’ varsity volleyball team won Western Mass for the first time since 2016. The girls swept Longmeadow, the same team they lost to in their Western Mass game last...

Although the Amherst boys’ soccer team didn’t have the most stellar year, finishing the season with a record of 6-10-2, Coach Matt Travis and Captain Arthur Vickery both enjoyed playing a leadership role and...

The ARHS high school football season finished the season off with a few comeback victories and a record of 5 wins and 6 losses. Captains were juniors Jameson Dion and Neil Cunniffe and seniors...

The Northeast Classic is a DIII college ultimate Frisbee tournament held in Saratoga Springs, New York. This year, the Classic took place on April 2 and 3, less than two weeks after the ARHS...

This winter, when people showed up to cheer on the ARHS boys’ and girls’ basketball teams, they got to also show their support for the all-new dance team, who performed before games in the...

This year, the ARHS girls’ swimming team won the state championship for the first time in school history. The historic moment was due to many individuals’ hard work. Some standout performances came from seniors...

The boys’ baseball team has been at their sport for a long time. Senior captain Evan Dooley has been playing baseball for 10 years and has been on the team since ninth grade. “Freshman...

The boys’ basketball team, coached by Jamahl Jackson, had a great season this year, racking up 15 wins and 6 losses and having a lot of fun along the way. “One of the highlights...

Despite a tough fall season, the ARHS girls’ field hockey team worked hard both on and off the field to create a strong community. Their team was smaller this year, leading to some challenges,...

The Amherst boys’ soccer season finally came to a close on Saturday, November 13 as they lost to Canton in the quarterfinals of States. The Hurricanes (ranked 20) upset both Silver Lake (13) and...