Sports

Inclusivity. Diversity. Welcome for all.  That’s the message head coach and Athletic Director Amanda Rothier wants others to know about the Los Gatos-Campbell Pop Warner Cheerleading program. The Los Gatos resident is in her first full season running the show and has placed a heavy...

The Los Gatos High baseball team is one of the handful of public school squads in the Central Coast Section that is capable of beating the powerhouse West Catholic Athletic League programs that typically dominate the top playoff Open Division.  This season should be no...

Started in 1991, The National Turkeybowl League is a town institution. The Thanksgiving morning football tradition sees players as old as eight years young and as young as 60 years old show their best moves in this flag football event. Each player hopes to be part...

Los Gatos High cross country standouts Shea Elmore and Sophie Tau can be in the middle of a hard workout when they suddenly start busting out in laughter. In a sport as difficult as running—where one has to continually push their physical limits—keeping things...

The Los Gatos High boys and girls track and field teams both finished runner-up to Los Altos in the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League De Anza Division Finals on April 27 at Gunn High.  Qualifiers advance to the SCVAL Championship Finals on May 6 at...

Henry Reyes has coached the Los Gatos High field hockey program to 17 Central Coast Section championships and five runner-up finishes, over a 32-year run that started in the early 1990s.  The Wildcats are the winningest program and gold standard in the section, having built...

All of 17 years old, Niko Tsakiris has enjoyed an auspicious start to his professional soccer career.  After Tsakiris signed a Homegrown contract with the San Jose Earthquakes in January 2022, the Saratoga native didn’t waste any time making an impact. Last season, Tsakiris appeared...

In a clash worthy of a championship stage, the Los Gatos High School girls soccer team outlasted perennial power St. Francis on Feb. 27, capturing the Central Coast Section Division I title in a bruising, edge-of-your-seat battle that went the distance at Santa Clara...

When a high school baseball team graduates eight senior starters—all of whom are either playing at four-year or two-year programs—the cupboard is usually bare the following season.  At tradition-rich Los Gatos High, however, there’s really no such thing as a rebuilding process—it’s more like a...

With a stable of talented runners, Los Gatos High cross country coach Paul Lawryk knows the formula for the boys and girls teams to have another successful season.  “It’s not too complicated this year. Keep them healthy and they’ll do well,” Lawryk said. “It’s just...