Sports

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...

It wasn’t but a New York minute when Los Gatos High field hockey coach Henry Reyes started looking at the video to dissect his team’s play in their 2-0 loss to visiting St. Francis on Oct. 18.  “It was a tough one, it hurts, like...

As Los Gatos High girls basketball coach Sara Quilici Giles was watching game film of San Benito High, it didn’t take long for her to realize that the Wildcats needed to stop Bailey Cotter in order to advance out of their Central Coast Section...

Erwina Kwan started playing basketball in 1st grade. Now 35, she just finished playing in a tournament this past weekend. She grew up to be a sports physical therapist and says she wants to make sure the next generation of athletes can enjoy the sport...

Greg Varela is entering his third full season as the Los Gatos High wrestling coach, and he said this year’s squad could be his best one yet.  The Wildcats open the season on Dec. 3 in the Chukchansi Invitational at Madera South High, the first...

Last week, locals celebrated as 25-year-old mountain biker Haley Batten clinched the silver at the Olympics for the United States. Now, her brother has been sharing with the Los Gatan about how this impressive achievement was made possible, in part, due to the training she...

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...

The Los Gatos High School girls basketball team went 3-7 in the non-league portion of its schedule, a byproduct of facing a Murders’ Row of powerhouse opponents.  Was coach Sara Quilici Giles worried? Hardly.  Now we know why.  After the slow start, the Wildcats ripped off a...

Despite a fantastic start to the season, Los Gatos High School girls soccer coach Lisa Mitchell eagerly awaited her team’s Santa Clara Valley Athletic League De Anza Division opener against Los Altos on Jan. 4.  “I think tomorrow will be a true test of where...

Brett Heimlich’s road to winning the Stanley Cup began years ago in Los Gatos. He’d recently graduated from high school and was casting around for a policing or audio/visual job, when he went to a family barbecue at the home of a friend his mom...