Amherst boys’ tennis enjoying a very successful season, with only one loss so far. The team is ranked second in Western Mass and has already qualified for the playoffs with three matches left in...

Walking through the Amherst High School parking lot you can hear yelling all around you. You turn the corner of the school to see the fields engulfed by dozens of tents and Frisbees flying...

The 2018 boys’ recreational basketball championship took place on March 11, 2018 at 4:05 p.m. in the high school gym. This year was the battle between the Bulls and the Celtics. The bleachers were...

ARHS, is face to face with his opponent before a wrestling match. Sweat gathers on his palms, his heart racing fast, but his mind is calm. Although his opponent is significantly larger than him,...

After a thrilling season, the boys’ basketball team lost in the semi-finals to Putnam 55-57, finishing the season 13-9. Senior captain Tate Rietkerk said he began the season ready to work hard after a...

Reaching playoffs for first time in six years, the girls’ basketball team is excited to see where the future leads their team. They finished the regular season 8-12, improving on last season’s record 3-17...

With the indoor track season wrapped up, Amherst runners are looking forward to a strenuous and ambitious outdoor track season. The indoor season was a mixture of success and setback, but with a season...

Despite finishing the 2017-18 season with a 4-8-5 record, the ARHS hockey team still has hopes for its future. The team has made their division’s playoffs in each of the last three years, but...

The Amherst Swimming and Diving team capped off an exciting season in February that had been filled both with great successes and fraught with disappointment. “This season was challenging with a young team, where...

Willy Wright led Amherst’s Nordic ski team in the 2018 season by placing third in Western Mass. Coaches Nathaniel Woodruff and Steve Bruner and captains Piper Lacy, Luke Sedor-Protti, Stella Wenczel, and Willy Wright...

I can’t move. Even if I wanted to. I’m perfectly content right here, even though my first priority should be my defensive duties. I stand mesmerized watching this yellow shirt move effortlessly across the...

The last hundred feet of the five kilometer race. It’s now or never. You can hear your teammates screaming, cheering you on, but you zone them all out. Your one focus is on the...

This year’s football team had one of its best seasons in quite a while with six wins and three losses in late October. They won against Monument Mountain, Ludlow, Drury, Woodstock Academy, and Belchertown,...

By making the postseason and winning their first game since the 2014 season, the girls’ field hockey team made history. “I think we accomplished our goal of winning a game,” said senior and co-captain...

Newly elected senior class president Peter Treyz, in an attempt to prove he is “not all talk,” brought the first ever Spikeball tournament to ARHS on September 27. Sixty students participated in the tournament,...

After losing five key seniors at the end of their successful 23 win, one loss season last year, the girls’ varsity volleyball team didn’t know what to expect for the upcoming 2017 fall season....

Boys’ varsity soccer was off to a rousing start this season, with 15 wins and 5 losses in November. They’d taken down Monument Mountain, Mount Greylock, West Springfield, Minnechaug, Agawam, Westfield, Woodstock Academy, Northampton,...

Winning the Massachusetts state bass fishing championship is an impressive accomplishment and going on to place third in the northern conference makes you a name in the national bass fishing community. But doing all...

In the Spring of last year, Cricket Club brought a sport rarely played in the U.S. to ARHS. Started by Louis Triggs, the club now meets on Fridays, depending on the weather, and is...

“The feeling of losing’s not a good feeling. We want to win,” said senior boys’ basketball guard Iani Ferreira, who echoed the sentiments of the entire squad. After losing to Putnam two years in...

A severe lack of snow didn’t stop either the Alpine Ski Team or the Nordic Ski Team from making great progress this past season. The Alpine Team sent six people to States, more than...

After the ARHS girls’ volleyball team won the title of Western Mass champions this year, a group of students at ARHS started asking if there was a boys’ volleyball team, too. When the answer...