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...

“ERRRRNTT!” Putnam 57. ARHS 55. It was the last 15 seconds of the game. Both teams had defeated each other once in the regular season and knew that the winner of this third match-up...

The chilly Mullins Center felt a little bit warmer on the night of December 8, 2018, as a sellout crowd of 8,412 packed the arena to see the UMass Minutemen take on the Quinnipiac...

With a winning record of 8-3, the Amherst golf team is headed straight to the playoffs. “Amherst golf has been steadily improving throughout my time at the high school, and I think it will...

Led by a group of elite runners, the ARHS cross country programs are at the top of their game in 2018, with ambitions to win big this year. Both the boys’ and girls’ teams...

“All the people who don’t play field hockey and say it’s not a sport or whatever, they’re just jealous,” said Jenna Schilling, a member of the JV ARHS field hockey team, embodying the mentality...

As the varsity volleyball season comes to a close, the team has been able to clinch a spot in the playoffs with a current record of 9-7. The team won against Wahconah but lost...

Last season was the first time since 1999 that the Amherst varsity football team qualified for the playoffs. The team is hoping to reach that goal again this year and with a 5-2 record...

Amherst girls’ soccer had  a difficult time finding their footing this year, but they were tenaciously finding ways to move forward from their 0-12 record in late October. The team has been rebuilding their...

For the first time since 2012, the Amherst girls’ lacrosse team went to playoffs. Confidently winning a game 20-4 against Pope Francis secured the girls a playoff seed in the MIAA D1 western central...