Sports

A last-place finish in the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League’s De Anza Division last year sent the Los Gatos High boys soccer team to compete in the league’s lower El Camino Division this season.  However, the Wildcats intend for their stay in the El Camino...

Outside of the football season, Mark Krail’s busiest time of the year comes in December and January—the two months leading up to the Charlie Wedemeyer All-Star Football Game.  The veteran Los Gatos High School football coach—along with the rest of the staff that organizes the...

Los Gatos High boys lacrosse coach Chris Nespor will be the first to tell you the Wildcats haven’t had the season they were hoping for.  However, with two matches left in the regular-season and a strong possibility of making the Central Coast Section playoffs, the...

In most sports at the prep level, the top athletes and college prospects play for their high school.  Tennis happens to be one of those sports where it’s hit and miss, depending on the player. For Wildcats’ sophomore ace Kayla Mitchell, playing in high school...

In a stroke of genius, Los Gatos High School boys tennis coach Justin Stenger decided to schedule Robert Louis Stevenson School of Pebble Beach as an add-on for the final regular-season match of the 2025 season.  Unbeknownst to Stenger, the decision ignited a series of...

The Doc Buchanan Invitational is widely considered one of the top-5 high school wrestling tournaments in the nation.  Athletes from across the country make their way to the Central Valley every January to compete in elite fields and see where they currently stack among the...

The loud thump of the ball hitting the cage backstop was sweet music to the Los Gatos High field hockey team’s ears.  That’s because it was Clare Torres’ rocket for a shot that went in to send the top-seed Wildcats to a riveting 2-1 overtime...

The Los Gatos High boys basketball team hangs its hat on defense. Nowhere was that more apparent than late in the third quarter of its Central Coast Section Division I playoff home opener against San Benito High on Friday. The Haybalers needed a score to...

When the talented trio of Luke Schoch, Michael Terrell and Wesley Hayden burst onto the scene last year as freshmen, they provided a clear glimpse into the future of the Los Gatos High School wrestling program. True to form, the trio have done nothing to...

Survive and advance. It’s one of the most timeless adages in sports, because it often rings true from the youth to the pro game. For the Los Gatos High boys and girls lacrosse teams, one was able to survive and advance and the other...