By: Matt Peffer and Levi Greene 

January 16, 2026

Things are starting to look up for the possibility for Red Land to get their own turf field. After all, many sports teams have expressed their unwillingness to constantly travel over to Cedar Cliff for their own practices.  especially when those practices interfere with Cedar Cliff’s practices, as it did when both Cedar Cliff and Red Land made the playoffs this year for football. 

At a board meeting on January 7, 2026, Brett Sanders, Director of Operations and Planning for West Shore School District, shared some details about the future field. The field will be located in between the baseball field and the track. He shared that construction will start in the summer of 2027. We will not be using a bid contractor and will go with Fedavia or McClure. He also included that we will be getting new tennis courts as well, which will be between the girls soccer field and softball field. 

Athletes of Red Land are happy to hear that we are getting a turf field. Cole Myers, a senior football player,  said, “I think it would be nice because you’re not getting dirty, you know all that stuff, not slipping on the grass field”. Cole also agreed with the statement that turf is better than a grass field.

The future is looking bright for Red Land’s sports program. The addition of a turf field and tennis courts will improve the training experience for the athletes and save them some gas money.

By Caden Douville and Carter Jordahl

October 30, 2025

The Red Land/Cedar Cliff rivalry is one many in this area are familiar with, and love. For the last 13 years, Cedar Cliff has dominated ours truly Red Land High School football team, and for the 13 years we've been trying with all our heart to beat them but have fallen short everytime. At the beginning of the 2025 football season, our football team surprised everyone. In a teeth clencher game ending with the score of 17-14, Red Land defeated the Cedar Cliff Colts. Freshman Tyson Kirchner, who kicked the game winning field goal, said, “With the new coaches stepping in, they brought a new energy to this team and really put in the work to help us be the best we can. And, we’ve been working a lot harder this year and have been taking practices very seriously this year unlike past years.”  He also said, “I believed I was there for a reason and I knew I would make the kick, even though I sprained my ankle bad in the third quarter, stepping up to the line to kick the ball, I blocked everything out and all I saw was the ball and I kicked it.”  

As of this publishing date, they have defeated Waynesboro is a huge win of 56-14 and are still undefeated.. Our team has beaten Lower Dauphin and Gettysburg High School in polarizing games where our defense and offense has showed up in big moments. We also interviewed the star quarterback, senior Quinlin Shearer who said. “I think the desire and the will to win and, the bonding between our teammates and our coaches was definitely far greater and different compared to years past.” Quinlin and his back field have been piecing up defenses too. Running back, sophomore Eli Philips said, “The new coach had the biggest effect…the coach prior didn’t really do much as a team. It was more just football and not family related as it is now, which makes the team better.”  Overall this years’ team is one to be noticed. GO RED LAND!!!!