Sports

Owen Slain has already traveled to 15 countries—that’s four more than the number of years he’s been alive.  Just this summer alone, the Daves Avenue fifth-grader traveled to Costa Rica, Italy and South Korea for fencing tournaments, a sport he became passionate about from the...

Los Gatos High senior Daniil Gorshkov went undefeated with a 4-0 record in the Central Coast Section Wrestling Championships Feb. 18-19, dominating each opponent that stood in front of him. He battled his way in the two-day tournament to a first-place finish against Palo Alto...

For Los Gatos High senior Kylie Chang, golf runs in her family.  The Wildcats’ No. 1 player grew up around the game because her parents and her older brother all play the sport. But it’s Kylie who may have bragging rights when it comes to...

Once the Los Gatos-Cupertino-Saratoga (LGCS) Magic 12U(A) softball team was assembled in the fall of 2024, it proceeded to play 15 tournaments spanning the next 40 weeks.  However, nothing could top the Magic’s dazzling run through the USA Softball Northern California Championship Tournament, culminating with...

Even though the Los Gatos High girls basketball team returned a solid core of players off a 2021-2022 squad that finished 25-4, won a Central Coast Section championship and advanced out of the opening round in the CIF NorCal playoffs, each season is a...

Jared Allen, who graduated from Los Gatos High School, has been named a finalist for induction into the NFL Hall of Fame. Allen, who was born in Dallas, was raised on a ranch in Morgan Hill, where he attended Live Oak High School. Allen played...

When we look back at 2024, it will be remembered as one of the finest in Los Gatos sports history. Los Gatos High School tends to dominate the local sports chatter, but uber-talented athletes and teams from every age level and division—youth, college and...

With one loud thump, the Los Gatos High field hockey team was on its way to another Central Coast Section playoff championship match.  Natasha Evenden’s thunderous goal a minute into the third quarter stood up in a 1-0 win over Christopher High on Wednesday in...

Nick Kalpin couldn’t believe his former football coach, Butch Cattolico, was on the other line. The two are all-time greats in the storied Los Gatos High School football program—Cattolico as a coach and Kalpin as a running back. When Cattolico called Kalpin last December to...

The bodies of elite gymnasts take a beating, and Reese Drotar has the battle scars to prove it.  The recent Los Gatos High graduate and Level 10 gymnast has had four major surgeries in the last four years, three on her knee and the most...