The 2023-2024 Armstrong Rifle Team is ranked second in its division and is expected to qualify for WPIALs. This year, the team broke their previous high score record twice. 

Senior Jeramiah McDermott and junior Shannon Anthony described this season as “one of the best so far.” 

Despite the season’s rocky start, the girls basketball team is preparing for the playoffs, according to Captains Kyla Fitzgerald and Sarai Weaver and senior Sophia DiGregorio. 

Senior Jack Valasek and Team Manager Cole Walker reported that the primary focus of this year’s basketball season is team building and growth, along with winning. Their record at the time of the interview was 9-6. 

“We play good teams. We don’t get blown out,” Cole said. 

Nine of the thirteen AHS musicians who attended the 2024 District III Chorus Festival auditioned and were chosen to advance to the next level. 

This year’s bowling team is currently undefeated and making their way to the section championship. Jordan Harmon, the captain, said that the team is currently ranked fifth in the state of Pennsylvania. 

Armstrong’s Quiz Bowl team achieved a double victory in the Indiana County Academic League, qualifying them for a spot in the national tournament in Atlanta, Georgia. The top four members of the team will be eligible to compete in the High School National Championship Tournament held in late May. 

AHS swim team Co-Captains Bryony Shipe and Dylayn Shipe have high hopes for the future of the team in the coming years despite the team’s small size. 

As of mid-January, juniors Bryony and Dylayn and freshmen Emily Eroh, Amelia Bissell, and Aynsley Shipe have all qualified for WPIALs.

Ten of the eleven students Armstrong High School sent to this year’s District Band Festival were selected to advance to Region Band in late February. 

“This was the most prepared group I’ve ever had going into a district band festival. You never know if that will completely translate in an audition, but in this case, it did in spades,” said AHS Band Director and Music Department Chair Mr. Jason Venesky in a Facebook post. 

This month, Advanced Placement (AP) US Government and Politics students created a timeline of civil rights featuring at least one entry every decade since 1780. Students researched developments in the expansion (or contraction) of the rights of numerous groups of people and chose the developments they deemed most important. 

Living Historian Kenneth Serfass presented a program on the relationship between General Ulysses S. Grant and President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War at the Ford City Public Library on Feb. 1.