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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...
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...
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,...