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...

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...

Every time Aydon Stefanopoulos runs, he questions whether the workout he’s doing is going to get him faster.   Judging by Stefanopoulos’ results this season, the answer is a resounding yes. The Los Gatos High sophomore has been remarkably consistent in 2022, with a first, second,...

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...

Ewan Lonergan led the Los Gatos High swimming team with a seventh-place showing in the boys 100-yard breaststroke in the CIF State Championships May 11-13 at the Clovis Olympic Swim Complex on the campus of Clovis West High.  The junior standout swam the race in...

As the laps ticked off in the girls 3200 meter race in the star-studded Dublin Distance Fiesta on March 21, Shea Elmore knew she was on pace for a fast time. She just didn’t know how fast.  The Los Gatos High School senior finished fourth in...

Once the Los Gatos-Cupertino-Saratoga (LGCS) Magic 12U(A) softball team was assembled in the fall of 2024, it proceeded to play 15 tournaments spanning the next 40 weeks.  However, nothing could top the Magic’s dazzling run through the USA Softball Northern California Championship Tournament, culminating with...

Los Gatos High girls water polo coach Don Appleton acknowledged there was a bit of a hangover with the team after it suffered a crushing 15-2 loss to a powerful Soquel High squad in the Central Coast Section Open Division playoff semifinals on Nov....

Advancing to its first-ever CIF State Championship Bowl Game last season is still fresh in the minds of the Los Gatos High football team.  After all, the Wildcats played that contest—a 45-42 loss to Central Valley Christian in the Division 2-A final—just seven months ago....

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...