Go Hurricanes, go Hurricanes!  Here's the skinny on our ARHS kids' sports teams.  Congrats to everyone who invested the time and effort in their team!

Girls Ultimate
Season Record: 32-7
State Champions!

Boys Ultimate
Season Record: 25-2
State Champions!

Softball
Season Record: 20-0
League Champions!
Qualified for MIAA Tournament
All-Stars: Quianna Diaz-Patterson Ella Guimond, Emily Mangiaretti, Jen Mears, Heather Mears, Emma Mendoker

Baseball
Season Record: 14-8
Qualified for MIAA Tournament
All Stars: Dean Bonneau, Steffen Herter, Fred Shepard, Kevin Ziomek

Girls Track & Field
Season Record: 2-7
Western Mass Champions: Leah Haake 2nd Place in Two Mile

Boys Track & Field
Season Record: 2-4
Athletes who qualified for State Championships: Atticus Brigham, TchuijoNkamebo.

Girls Lacrosse
Season Record: 9-11

Boys Lacrosse
Season Record: 5-13

Boys Tennis
Season Record: 15-4
Western Mass Finalist
All-Stars: Alex Hirsch, Tom Suchodolski

Girls Tennis
Season Record: 18-2
Western Mass Champions!
All-Stars: Maya Hart, Jenna Klaes, Juliana Gensheimer.
Maya Hart was the Individual Western Mass Champion!

That's a whole lot of awesome!  CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OUR ATHELETES AND COACHES!

The ARHS Teacher/Staff Appreciation Luncheon is coming up this Monday, June 22nd and donations of food and offers to help are still GREATLY appreciated! It's not too late to pitch in!

-Set-up/serve (10:15 - 11:30)
-Serve/clean-up (11:30 - 12:45)
-Donations of food: salads and desserts (serving 8 -10). These can be dropped off  anytime in the morning on Mon, June 22 in the cafeteria.  

If you can help please call K.C. Conlan at 253-7346 or email kcconlan@comcast.net

Come bike, eat, listen to great music, and help raise money to put solar panels on the high school roof! Join the Environmental Action Club’s Project Solar Lunchbox group at Groff Park on Saturday June 27th from 11-3. Collect pledge cards and permission slips from room 306. Bring completed forms to the event.

Cordoba Exchange students Anthony Wilson, Briana Figarella, Salomon Moreno-Rosa, and Maya Nair Noonan, and, teacher Mick O’Connor, will present their film on immigrant populations in Spain and the United States on Thursday, June 25 at 7 pm in the APE Gallery, 126 Main St. in Northampton. Their work is a result of a US State Department Grant to ARHS through ITD.

For the 2009 - 2010 school year, Amherst Regional High School no longer will provide funding for after school clubs. In an effort to maintain school clubs ARHS parent/ guardians will be asked to contribute to raise at least $20,000 - the amount needed to maintain the 30+ clubs offered at the school this past year. Fortunately a generous donor has offered to provide $5,000 to match the first $5,000 raised through parent/ guardian donations.

ARHS families will receive a request for donations for the "ARHS After - School Club Fund" for 2009 - 2010 in the mailing that they receive in August. We are asking each family to provide a voluntary donation of at least $25 so that we can continue to have after-school clubs at ARHS. Let's meet the challenge and raise the $20,000 needed to keep after school clubs going at ARHS. We can do this!

The final episode of Season One of the student-produced awesome "Student News" will air 6/22, 6/23, and 6/24 on ACTV (Amherst Community Television) at 9:30pm, channel 12.  In addition to the Headlines and Feel-Good-Story-of-the-Week, this sixth episode will feature "interesting" moments from the Amherst School Committee over the past year; a Nose-to-Nose segment on the newest Star Trek movie; and a behind-the-scenes tour of Student News.  

You can also watch the show on-demand and view past episodes of Student News online at:  http://www.actvamherst.com/Site/ACTV_on_Demand.html
Just find Student News on the schedule and click on "view." 

Student News is currently recruiting students, ages 14-17, to join our 2009-2010 production team as reporters, crew members, videographers, etc. (No experience necessary.)  Go to our website at www.meridianconsulting.biz/studentnews for dates/times/locations of upcoming informational meetings.  Student News is an independently produced, monthly half-hour news show produced by high schoolers in the Pioneer Valley.

Two mailings will be sent from ARHS in August. On Friday, August 14th the high school will be sending out its bulk mailing with contact and health forms, calendar info, etc. Included will be a Parent Center fundraising letter and Safe Homes sign-up.

On Friday, August 21st the high school will send out student schedules for the 2009 - 2010 school year.

There will be a series of orientation sessions for incoming 9th graders & students new to ARHS during the week of August 17th. We'll post the dates and times of the orientations when we get the information.

The ARHS Parent Center is sponsoring an "Evening Coffee" with Principal Mark Jackson early in the school year - Thurs, Sept 17th from 7-8 pm in room 13 at the high school.  We'll be welcoming new families.  This will be a great time to ask questions about the high school and meet other parents.

Happy Summer from the Parent Center Executive Committee - Adrienne, Kate, Sue, Amy (& Arnie)

Hope you'll join us in September!