Sports

For the first time in a long time, Helm Gym was rocking.  Playing in front of a raucous home crowd for the first time in recent memory, the Los Gatos High boys and girls basketball teams won’t soon forget their Jan. 28 doubleheader. The boys...

Given the number of heart-stopping five-set matches that the Los Gatos High girls volleyball team has already played in this season, Wildcats coach Brynja Thompson and a reporter joked that going through all of the riveting and suspenseful moments have taken years off of...

Point guards at the high school level need to see the floor well, anticipate things before they happen and be strong with the ball.  If they can shoot the ball and get to the basket off dribble penetration, that’s a bonus. Junior Max Houghton has...

Longtime Los Gatos resident Joe Kapp, who played quarterback at Cal and led the Minnesota Vikings to the Super Bowl, died May 8. He was 85.  Multiple media reports confirmed Kapp’s death came after a long battle with dementia. A private service will be held...

For the first time this season, the Los Gatos High football team found itself in uncharted territory—with an opponent that kept things close several minutes into the fourth quarter.  However, the Wildcats passed the test with flying colors, literally running away from Wilcox for a...

The Los Gatos High football team was on the cusp of bringing home the program’s first-ever CIF State Championship Bowl Game title. However, the Wildcats came up just short following a 45-42 loss to Central Valley Christian of Visalia in the Division 2-A championship game...

Two weeks after breaking the points record in the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League Finals, the Los Gatos High wrestling team continued its historic season with a second-place finish in the Central Coast Section Masters Finals Feb. 18 at Watsonville High.  The Wildcats established a...

When Joel Fumia became the Los Gatos High School boys soccer coach in the summer before the start of the 2022-2023 season, his goal was to get the Wildcats back into the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League’s De Anza Division.  Mission accomplished.  The Wildcats got promoted...

At the start of the season, the Los Gatos High girls basketball team was still finding its way and searching for its identity. But the Wildcats know who they are now, and that’s as the reigning queens of the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League’s De...

The college sports landscape has changed so much in the last several years, it’s hard to keep track of all the rule-swiching and court decisions. These have sent ripples throughout the NCAA.  In last week’s Los Gatan, Camryn Whitfield detailed the Division I five-year regulation,...