Amherst Regional High School (Massachusetts)

Public high school in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States

Amherst Regional High School

Amherst Regional High School in 2012

Address

21 Mattoon Street

Amherst

Massachusetts

01002

United States

Coordinates| 42°22′51″N 72°30′46″W﻿ / ﻿42.38083°N 72.51278°W﻿ / 42.38083; -72.51278
Information
School type| Public High School
Open enrollment[1]
Motto| Veritas Unitas Caritas
(Truth Unity Charity)
Founded| 1956
Superintendent| Douglas Slaughter
Principal| Talib Sadiq
Teaching staff| 73.69 (FTE)[2]
Grades| 9–12
Enrollment| 858 (2022-23)[2]
Student to teacher ratio| 11.64[2]
Language| English with ELL programs
Area| Amherst, Pelham, Leverett, Shutesbury
Color(s)| Maroon and White
Mascot| Hurri the Hurricane
Team name| Hurricanes
Rival| Northampton
Newspaper| The Graphic
Yearbook| The Goldbug
Website| arhs.arps.org

Amherst Regional High School (ARHS) is a secondary school in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States, for students in grades 9–12. It is part of the Amherst-Pelham Regional School District, which comprises the towns of Amherst, Pelham, Leverett, and Shutesbury, Massachusetts.[4] Its official colors are maroon and white. ARHS's current principal, beginning in the 2023–24 academic year, is Talib Sadiq.[5]

## Extracurricular and non-academic activities

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### Sports

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The school's sports teams are known as the Hurricanes. The nickname first appears in the Goldbug yearbook of 1942, in the Sports/Baseball section,[6] "Hurricanes humble Hopkins". The nickname is likely in recognition of the 1938 New England Hurricane.[7] "History of the Class", Goldbug 1939, is entitled "The Epic Of A Hurricane";[8] it begins "We are a hurricane."

The boys' cross-country team has been listed in the top 100 high school teams in America, and has won many Western Massachusetts championships, most recently in 2018.[9] In 2001 they won the State Championship.[10]

ARHS is one of many high schools in Massachusetts with a nationally ranked Ultimate program.[11][12] The program hosts the annual Amherst Invitational Ultimate Tournament which pits 30 high school teams from across the country in the oldest and one of the largest high school tournaments in the USA.[13]

The 1992–1993 girls' basketball team inspired the book In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle by Madeleine Blais.[citation needed]

The Football team won the 1999 Massachusetts High School Super Bowl by defeating Southbridge, 27–7. It was the first Super Bowl win for Amherst in 25 years.[14][15]

Amherst High Athletics came to national attention in the fall of 2016, when the entire volleyball team, with the exception of one player, decided to kneel during the playing of the National Anthem at an away game against rival Minnechaug on Oct. 7, 2016. The sole player who chose to stand was profiled by ESPN.[16]

### Survival living

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ARHS is one of the few schools in the nation to offer a Wilderness Survival program.[17]

## Notable alumni

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This article's list of alumni may not follow Wikipedia's verifiability policy. Please improve this article by removing names that do not have independent reliable sources showing they merit inclusion in this article AND are alumni, or by incorporating the relevant publications into the body of the article through appropriate citations. (September 2024)

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* Annie Baker (class of '99), Pulitzer Prize winning playwright [18]
* Thomas Bezucha (class of '82), film director and writer of Big Eden and The Family Stone
* David F M Brown (class of '81), President, Massachusetts General Hospital; Trustees Endowed Professor, Harvard Medical School
* Madeleine George, award winning playwright and young-adult author
* John Henry, former MLB player (Washington Senators, Boston Braves)
* Michael Hixon (class of '13), diver
* James Ihedigbo (class of '02), Philanthropist and retired NFL safety who played 2007-2016 for the New York Jets, New England Patriots, Baltimore Ravens (including 2012 Super Bowl), Detroit Lions, and Buffalo Bills
* Amory Lovins, sustainability guru and CEO of the Rocky Mountain Institute
* Eric Mabius (class of '89), actor known for his roles as Daniel Meade on Ugly Betty and as Tim Haspel on The L Word
* Michael E. Mann (class of ‘88), climatologist and geophysicist and current director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University
* J Mascis (class of '84), of Dinosaur Jr. and other bands
* Makaya McCraven (class of '02), jazz drummer and bandleader
* Julie McNiven (class of '98), actress
* Ellen Moran (class of '84), Chief of Staff to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce
* Perry Moss (class of '78), NBA player
* Peter Moss (class of '75), college basketball player
* Ebon Moss-Bachrach (class of '95), actor
* Benjamin Nugent (class of '95), writer
* Gil Penchina (class of '87), CEO of Wikia
* David Romer (class of '76), Herman Royer Professor of Political Economy at the University of California, Berkeley
* Robbie Russell, (class of '97), played soccer for the MLS teams Real Salt Lake and D.C. United
* Deb Talan (class of '86), an American singer-songwriter for the folk-pop duo The Weepies.
* Kaleil Isaza Tuzman and Tom Herman (both class of '89), founders of govWorks and stars of the documentary film Startup.com
* Christopher O. Ward (class of '72), Executive Director of PANYNJ, NYC Commissioner of Department of Environmental Protection
* Jamila Wideman (class of '93), former WNBA player
* Kevin Ziomek (class of '10), professional baseball player in Detroit Tigers minor league

## References

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1. ^ "Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education - Error Page" (PDF). www.doe.mass.edu.
2. ^ a b c "Amherst Regional High". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved September 2, 2024.
3. ^ "Massachusetts Department Of Elementary And Secondary Education - 2017-18 SAT Performance Report - All Students Statewide Report". profiles.doe.mass.edu.
4. ^ "Amherst-Pelham Regional Public Schools - Amherst-Pelham Regional Public Schools". www.arps.org.
5. ^ "ARPS Staff Directory | Amherst-Pelham Regional Public Schools". www.arps.org. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
6. ^ "Goldbug 1942 Sports Baseball". Amherst Regional High School. 1942.
7. ^ "National Weather Service, The Great New England Hurricane of 1938".
8. ^ "Goldbug 1939 History of the class". Amherst Regional High School. 1939.
9. ^ "Amherst reclaims boys Division 1 cross country title | GazetteNet.com". Archived from the original on 12 November 2013. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
10. ^ "Massachusetts Cross Country 2001 All-Massachusetts Championship Natasha Roetter smashes state record Andy Pitts, Amherst boys win big". November 17, 2001. Retrieved November 8, 2021.
11. ^ "USA Ultimate youth boys rankings". Archived from the original on 2010-09-30. Retrieved 2012-06-19.
12. ^ "USA Ultimate youth girls rankings". Archived from the original on 2010-09-30. Retrieved 2012-06-19.
13. ^ "2012 Amherst Invitational Tournament Website". Archived from the original on June 24, 2012.
14. ^ [1] Fitchburg Sentinel from Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Monday, December 8, 1975, Page 8
15. ^ [2] HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Super Bowl history from 1972–2013, Boston Herald, August 10, 2014
16. ^ "Understand why the national anthem is a protest, every time it's sung".
17. ^ "ARHS Survival Living: About". Archived from the original on 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2011-05-31.
18. ^ "Annie Baker's the Flick Wins 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama - Playbill.com". Archived from the original on 2016-01-05. Retrieved 2014-04-14.

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