Friday night lights are here! After a year of absence from the home crowd, Mountain Ridge is eager to open its stands to Ridge Army.    Freshmen, welcome their first chance to belong in the student section as high schoolers. Sophomores, get...

The 2021 Ridge football season has begun and the Ridge Army is getting ready to go wild in the student section on Friday nights. The new turf field has been striped with forest green and a burgundy mountain lion calls attention to the 50 yard-line, awaiting...

In the past few years, the conversation around mental health has been brought up more and more, but there’s still a huge stigma surrounding it. The Athletic Trainer here at Ridge, Kim Rodgers, feels that mental health should be discussed more, especially...

Kaden Hicks, senior at Mountain Ridge and starter on the varsity football team, has more than just the upcoming football season on his mind.   To date, Hicks has received 11 college offers from all over the US and will continue to keep his...

Some enjoy the sport of hockey because of the non-stop action. Some enjoy it because of the cold and icy environment. I enjoy Hockey simply because of its aggressive play.   For my 11th birthday, my dad took me to my first hockey game here...

What sports pull you in? How do they pull you in? The thrill of a home run or the excitement in a hockey fight. Each one is different and they all attract different people.    Sports are thrilling to many all over the world. They can be intense...

Dedication and hard work can take you anywhere you want to go. Goals are reached when you put all your effort into making it happen. Seeing improvement is the most rewarding thing when pursuing goals.   For me, sports are my passion. I work...

All-Region Honors were given out this March to several extra outstanding team players, two of them being Mountain Ridge’s very own Hannah Uhlenhop and Janae Floyd and honorable mention Ari Goren of the Varsity Girls Basketball Team, with Uhlenhop receiving...

  You’re getting ready to explode out of your blocks at your track meet and your adrenaline is skyrocketing. You jump up and down to warm up your muscles and you crawl into the blocks. You rock side to side to settle into position and you are...

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, schools have enacted health regulations to keep players and coaches safe. However these district benchmarks and the inconvenience of the epidemic has diminished numbers in seasons, especially in the winter...

The Dig Pink event took place on October 20th where Mountain Ridge’s volleyball team faced off against Liberty High School.    They came up short and lost against Liberty but the real focus of the night was breast cancer awareness. Every...

Badminton entered a tournament the weekend between the third of October to the fourth. It was a tournament with a total of six teams, coming from Xavier, Sunnyslope, Washington Highschool, OC, Ironwood, and Mountain Ridge Highschool. This was to be a...