The ARHS girls varsity volleyball team had a breakout season this year, and seniors Delaney MacPhetres and Nicole Lambert and junior Audrey Bowen played key roles in making that happen. Last season, the team...

Three banners hang in Amherst Regional High School’s gymnasium filled with dates of every Western Massachusetts championship title won by the girls’ cross country team, starting in 1989 and ending with 2019. No sport...

The Amherst Hurricane girls’ varsity soccer team has had one of the best seasons in recent years, with an overall record of 9 wins and 1 loss despite having many new members on their...

The ARHS varsity golf team had a fast and intense season. Coach Carl Vigeland was glad that the team had two weeks of practicing before school and the season started. “Our first match was...

Greg Carvel, head hockey coach at UMass, has had an amazing year. Under his direction, a once-struggling team came back to win Nationals, and devoted UMass fans were thrilled to have him as their...

During the pandemic, students were forced to adjust to a lot of changes during virtual schooling, some for the better and some for the worse. But how did athletes fare?  I reached out to...

Cold weather and exercise are two things I hate. But the senior team captains of ARHS’s Nordic skiing team, Nor Young and Zora Dallman, count them among their favorite activities. Young and Dallman organize...

ARHS senior Shane Robles, a first year starter and captain on the boys’ varsity basketball team, said that coming into the season, the team had set goals to make playoffs, and beat their school...

This year’s hockey season did not disappoint once again, as the Hurricanes made it back to the Western Mass semi-finals and finished with a record of 13-4-3.  Head Coach Micheal Rousseau has had a...

Led by Jen Albertine’s experienced coaching, both the boys and girls swim teams were able to achieve an undefeated record in their league, and senior swimmer Noah Labich broke three school records: the 200im,...

At ARHS, the alpine ski team is full of hard working, talented athletes. They stand out from other teams, because though they enjoy winning, they focus more on having fun and cultivating a positive...

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...

Starting next year, ARHS will be adding a new class called Adaptive Gym. Adaptive Gym is a class where students with disabilities from the PIP (Pathways to Independence program) will be partnered with general...

Taj-Amir Torres is a former Amherst High School football player who has taken his game to the next level, grabbing a slot in the NFL. He agreed to do a special interview for The...

  Hunter Wolfson started fishing at a young age, about 2 or 3, he said.  “I kinda just grew up on it. It’s like a family tradition,” he said. He has continued to pursue...

Senior Sophia Jacobs-Townsley took third in the nation running the 5K, and Junior Pontes da Veiga, Isaiah Moyston, Ben Fang, and Kai Bailin were also on top of the world, after coming in fifth...

The Amherst co-ed ice hockey team had a record of 16 wins and 5 losses, in yet another great season. Though they lost in their playoff game for the Western Mass championship on Saturday...

The Amherst girls’ varsity basketball team has had a fantastic season, ending the season with a record of 9-11, showing tremendous improvement since last year. Coach Dustin James has been with the team for...

Philly Brainin coasted through the first round of the fantasy football playoffs, and is now in the championship game, competing for the title of League Champ. “It gives me the chance to compete with...