Sports

Local Jewish teen athletes recently returned from the 2025 JCC Maccabi Games in Tucson, Arizona with medals, memories and a renewed sense of pride with Jewish teens from around the country. The JCC Maccabi Games are an Olympic-style sporting event, and the world’s largest annual...

Entering the 2023 season, one of the biggest questions the Los Gatos High football team had was at running back.  Would there be anyone capable of replacing Emiliano Mejia, last year’s tailback extraordinaire? The answer has been a resounding yes in senior Boxer Kopcsak-Yeung, who...

Ben Kinczel had every reason to be encouraged after finishing in second place in the USA Powerlifting California High School Open’s 75 kilogram (165 pound) division on Nov. 17 in Hayward.  After all, the 14-year-old Kinczel, a Los Gatos High School freshman, was competing in...

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...

After a five-year run as an assistant baseball coach at Saratoga High from 2011-2015, Mike Minkel knew he wanted to run his own team as an on-campus teacher.  The 39-year-old achieved his goal when he was recently named the new Los Gatos High baseball coach....

What a difference a year makes. After struggling on the links in 2021, the Los Gatos High girls golf team was voted down to compete in the Santa Clara Valley League’s lower El Camino Division this season.  With added talent and experience for 2022, the...

Despite a hard-fought effort, the Los Gatos High boys basketball team absorbed a 63-55 loss to Bellarmine in the Central Coast Section Division I playoff championship game Feb. 25 at Santa Clara High. Their CCS title goal denied, the Wildcats still have a season left...

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...

When the San Jose Earthquakes played the Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC) on May 6 at Levi’s Stadium, the game drew over 40,000 people.  A crowd in excess of 40,000 is also expected when the Quakes play the LA Galaxy in the 97th edition of...

The football games that are won in the fall are often decided by the work that was done in the spring and summer.  That’s why Mark Krail feels refreshed and confident entering his 10th season as the Los Gatos High coach. As the idiom goes,...