Sports

When the Los Gatos Longhorns Cheer team didn’t place in a Pop Warner competition at the beginning of the season last September, members of the team weren’t satisfied.  “We were all bummed out about it and that’s when we decided to extend the season,” Longhorns...

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...

As Los Gatos Rowing Club Director Jaime Velez exited the plane from Florida and raced to catch his connection in Nashville to Oakland, he was ecstatic. There’d been high hopes for the 59 athletes and their 14 boats at the USRowing Youth National Championships in...

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...

Three teams from the Los Gatos National Junior Basketball (NJB) program won national championships last month to cap the 2023-2024 winter season.  Within the NJB’s top division, All Net, the Los Gatos fourth- and eighth-grade boys team captured titles. Los Gatos’ eighth-grade boys divisional team...

The Leigh High girls soccer team—with seven players on the roster who live in Los Gatos—recently completed a historic season by winning the school’s first-ever CIF NorCal Regional Playoff Championship in any sport.  The Longhorns did it with a 1-0 win over Granite Bay on...

If looks could kill then Los Gatos High senior Lily Van Putten would’ve burned a hole through one of the players on the Castilleja girls water polo team in their Santa Clara Valley Athletic League De Anza Division match on Sept. 27.  Van Putten had...

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...

Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of college eligibility, especially due to the NCAA Division I five-year rule. It is one of the biggest obstacles student-athletes face, and, for some, more challenging than the sport they play itself.  However, change is unfolding...

Similar to one of his bone-jarring hits on the gridiron and on the rugby pitch, Lyndon Bailey never saw it coming.  In early June, a couple of weeks after an impressive performance in the Boys Rugby High School Club National Championships, the 2024 Los Gatos...