Sports

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...

It’s hard to believe that for the first several years of his career, San Jose Sharks legend Patrick Marleau seemed uncomfortable in front of the media or having any attention heaped his way.  If the Feb. 23-25 festivities surrounding Marleau proved one thing, it was...

The Los Gatos High School football team was looking to become just the second public school in Central Coast Section history to beat three West Catholic Athletic League teams and win a playoff championship.  It wasn’t meant to be.  After a pair of riveting wins over...

After the 2024 season ended, Los Gatos High School girls tennis coach Justin Stenger predicted 2025 would be a special one for the program.  This proved prescient, as the Wildcats had one of their best seasons in recent memory, finishing as the runner-up in the...

Table tennis was just part of family life for Rachel Sung, who made her Olympic debut yesterday in the team competition in Paris—and became part of a viral storyline with US basketball greats. Her parents met playing for their colleges in Taiwan, and she grew...

Jeff Alzina has come full circle.  After 25 years living in Southern California, the all-time winningest coach in AVP history returned home to Santa Cruz in February 2019 to become the head coach of the Santa Clara University beach volleyball program.  Then, just three months ago,...

When the Live Oak and Los Gatos football teams clash in Morgan Hill on Friday, they’ll be playing for something far greater than trying to notch another ‘W’ in the win column.  They’ll be a part of the first-ever Coaches Against Cancer football game. Coaches...

For Los Gatos High girls basketball coach Sara Quilici Giles and freshman standout Nicole Steiner, the moment hit them as Ella Rabtiz was hoisted up by her teammates to put an index card on the south wall at Helm Gym, the area that lists...

Through the first half-plus of round-robin play in the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League De Anza Division season, the Los Gatos High boys basketball team has stamped itself as the favorite to win the title.  Despite suffering their first league loss to Mountain View on...

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...