Category: Sports

Imagine this: you are playing your heart out on the athletic field, proud to represent your school and town and to show the skills and talents you have been honing for months. You run...

As the sun set on another football season at ARHS, players, coaches, and fans were jubilant. The team had a historic undefeated season (their first in 60 years), won the Western Mass title (their...

As a long-time female hockey player, on mostly male teams, I’ve had a lot of time to consider the topic of sexism in hockey.  From my vantage point, men’s professional hockey teams are heavily...

Minute by minute, more results were coming in. None of them had beaten his score yet, but Evan Rutherford still had to anxiously wait for the rest of the competitors to finish. Rutherford was...

A storm was brewing in Western Mass. this fall, and it wasn’t anything Pioneer Valley pigskin fans expected. The Amherst Regional High School football team came for all the Massachusetts Division 5 hardware, and...

The ARHS girls’ cross country team has dominated over the competition for a long time.  The team won Western Mass for the last two years, and they are hoping for a third win this...

For the ARHS boys’ varsity soccer team, the difference between the 2018 and 2019 seasons has amounted to a complete 180 degree turn.  The crowds are back, “The Naysh” is alive, and the boys...

The Amherst boys’ golf team believes they have a shot at qualifying for States and maybe even winning Western Mass this season, a goal that all current members remember seeming very far-fetched in seasons...

When Michelle Risch took over the reins of the ARHS field hockey program four years ago, she was given a small group of hard working players and a single senior who bought into her...

“We weren’t going to go from losing every game to winning every game but my goal was to inspire a new culture surrounding girls soccer at the high school,” said Casey Flueckiger, one of...