Sports

For the last couple of years, the Los Gatos High girls water polo team had an embarrassment of riches at the goalie position with Jackie King and Lucy Holland. The duo have since moved on to play at the Division I level, King to Stanford...

It was a year of growing pains for the Los Gatos High baseball team after it graduated 17 seniors from last year’s squad.  That meant there were a lot of new faces across the board playing together in a competitive schedule.  But this group of young...

With just over a week left in the regular season, the Los Gatos High softball team is in the pole position to win another outright Santa Clara Valley Athletic League De Anza Division championship.  The Wildcats, who have clinched at least a share of the...

Three teams from the Los Gatos National Junior Basketball (NJB) program won national championships last month to cap the 2023-2024 winter season.  Within the NJB’s top division, All Net, the Los Gatos fourth- and eighth-grade boys team captured titles. Los Gatos’ eighth-grade boys divisional team...

By earning a spot in the Central Coast Section Division I field, the Los Gatos High football team has proven itself to be one of the elite squads in the section this season.  Now the No. 6 seed Wildcats (10-0) will find out how they...

Town of Los Gatos officials got the ball spinning by arriving at Creekside Sports Park early on Thanksgiving Day to allow organizers to start preparing for the day’s big event—the annual Turkey Bowl. Matt Ober, the National Turkey Bowl League commissioner, entered the astroturf-covered grounds...

Even when the other team is making a huge run or winning a game, the Los Gatos High girls volleyball team doesn’t panic. That demeanor starts at the top with coach Brynja Thompson and goes down to the players.  That’s why when Palo Alto High...

(Photos by Jonathan Natividad) In addition to the stunning digital shots sports photographer Jonathan Natividad has collected throughout the year, he’s also taken time here and there to snap some key moments on old school film. “I’ve been using a disposable film camera, mainly Fujifilm and...

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...

In the grand scheme of things, preseason rankings don’t amount to much.  However, there is a certain respect factor that comes along with being listed as one of the top-ranked teams, especially in the case of the Los Gatos High School football team. The No....