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When Nicole Steiner unleashed a throw of 41 feet, 6 ½ inches—the top mark in the Central Coast Section this season—in the St. Francis Invitational on March 18, she admitted it wasn’t her most technically sound effort.  “There wasn’t a whole lot of technique. It...

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...

The Los Gatos High football team opened the 2022 season in the same way it ended the 2021 season—with a loss.  Same venue, same electric atmosphere, same result, different opponent. Instead of Bellarmine in last year’s Central Coast Section Division I playoff game, Southern California...

After a record-breaking track and field season, a half-dozen Los Gatos High athletes are headed to the famed Hayward Field at the University of Oregon in Eugene to compete in the High School Nationals June 16-18. The list includes the boys 4x400-meter relay team of...

The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors recently approved a one-time grant for the Town of Los Gatos to help upgrade senior-serving facilities. The funds, part of the Fiscal Year 2022-23 budget, will be used for ADA-related improvements to the Los Gatos Adult Recreation...

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,...

For the third time in the last four years, the Los Gatos High School softball team is reigning supreme as the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League De Anza Division champions.  The Wildcats punctuated the regular season with a 11-1, mercy-rule victory over Mountain View on...

Frank Marotti Jr. had beads of sweat draped on his forehead on a frigid 45-degree night—and he wasn’t even playing.  To say the Los Gatos High boys soccer coach gets into the Wildcats’ games would be an understatement. The players seem to take after his...

In the midst of what could go down as a truly historic season, Los Gatos High boys water polo coach Davor Koret said the team has yet to hit its peak in the 2023 campaign.  Should that happen and the Wildcats go on to win...

Los Gatos High senior Zoe Frangieh didn’t have the opportunity to compete in the Central Coast Section Swimming Championships in her sophomore and junior years due to Covid.  Back at the Santa Clara International Swim Center—the annual site of the Championships—for the first time since...