Sports

After a standout freshman season, Los Gatos High center Nicole Steiner entered her sophomore year knowing she would need to take on a bigger leadership role on the team.  From scoring points, rebounding, playing defense and encouraging her teammates, Steiner’s role has taken on greater...

Although the Los Gatos High boys golf team doesn’t have a player who will likely contend for a Central Coast Section individual championship, it has a lineup that goes eight deep with every player at those positions being of quality.  That type of depth is...

Surrounded by family and friends to celebrate the announcing of his contract signing with the San Jose Earthquakes on Jan. 13 at PayPal Park, Niko Tsakiris couldn’t help but get emotional.  After all, a dream had been realized. But in typical Tsakiris fashion, the precocious...

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 the summer of 1984, the Los Gatos Majors 12-and-under All Star team was the feel-good youth sports story of the Bay Area, advancing to the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa. For the first time since its historic run, the team is having...

Lucy Holland and Jackie King grew up playing for the same water polo teams, culminating at Los Gatos High, where they split time at goalie. Even though both were college prospects early in their high school careers, they never let their individual ambition get...

Make no mistake: the Los Gatos High School girls basketball team took its lumps in the non-league portion of its schedule, losing seven of 10 games.  But if the Wildcats’ performance in their Santa Clara Valley Athletic League De Anza Division opener is any indication—a...

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...

Scotty Brennan probably got knocked down more times driving to the basket in one half of Thursday night’s Central Coast Section Division I basketball playoff semifinal game than he did all of football season.  But like clockwork, every time Brennan hit the floor, he got...

After winning the Central Coast Section Championships by a convincing margin, the Los Gatos High boys track and field team continued to surge in the CIF State Championships May 26-27 at Veterans Memorial Stadium at Buchanan High in Clovis.  The Wildcats finished 10th in the...