Sports

At the midway point in the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League De Anza Division season, it’s apparent the Los Gatos High girls basketball team’s toughest opponent will be themselves.  Six wins—all by double digits—has stamped the Wildcats as the prohibitive favorite not just to win...

Beau Leroux used to find his ultimate meaning and identity through the lens of his achievements on the soccer field.  That all changed after the first-year San Jose Earthquakes midfielder suffered the first serious injury of his athletic career during his junior season at San...

Two more Los Gatos High sports teams have clinched league championships in the current winter sports season. With the school having already won titles in girls basketball and wrestling, the boys basketball team pulled off a remarkable repeat title season. A year after earning...

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...

For the Los Gatos High cross country program, the future is now. In freshman sensation Shea Elmore, the Wildcats have an uber talented individual who won a key early season race on Sept. 11. Elmore’s victory came in the Ed Sias Invitational, where she covered...

Given the number of heart-stopping five-set matches that the Los Gatos High girls volleyball team has already played in this season, Wildcats coach Brynja Thompson and a reporter joked that going through all of the riveting and suspenseful moments have taken years off of...

In Greg Varela’s distinguished 22-year career coaching high school and club wrestling, he’s never had a team that’s made such dramatic improvement as this year’s Los Gatos High squad.  That’s why Varela beamed with pride about the Wildcats’ performance in the Central Coast Section Masters...

Andre Torres won’t be forgetting the marvelous season the Los Gatos Little League Junior All Star team's had this year any time soon. The squad advanced to the NorCal State Tournament for the fourth consecutive season. They also did it as under-11 All Stars, U12 Majors...

For the Los Gatos High boys basketball team, there’s no rest for the weary. With the season in full swing, the Wildcats will only take the Christmas weekend off before resuming game action at the Head-Royce Tournament in Oakland on Dec. 27.  “Forget the holidays,...

The only noticeable change in the tone of Callum Schweitzer’s voice came midway through an extended telephone interview with the Los Gatan. “Splitting time is something I’ve never done before,” Schweitzer said, when asked about his 2024 junior year, in which he started the season...