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At 19 years old, Saratoga resident Niko Tsakiris is already entering his fourth season as a San Jose Earthquakes midfielder.  “It’s been amazing,” he said. “You learn a lot entering the locker room at 16. You grow up pretty fast, but it’s been fun.” Tsakiris says...

The only noticeable change in the tone of Callum Schweitzer’s voice came midway through an extended telephone interview with the Los Gatan. “Splitting time is something I’ve never done before,” Schweitzer said, when asked about his 2024 junior year, in which he started the season...

It’s hard to believe that for the first several years of his career, San Jose Sharks legend Patrick Marleau seemed uncomfortable in front of the media or having any attention heaped his way.  If the Feb. 23-25 festivities surrounding Marleau proved one thing, it was...

The Los Gatos High girls volleyball team knew it would still have at least one more match to play after an opening round loss to St. Ignatius in the Central Coast Section Open Division playoffs on Nov. 2.   That’s because any team that made the...

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 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—Los Gatos, Los Altos and Palo Alto—entered the final day of the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League De Anza Division season with an opportunity to share or win an outright championship.  In the end, it was the Wildcats standing alone at the top after...

Los Gatos Little League Junior All Star Manager Andre Torres and his assistants know they’re coaching a truly special team.  The majority of the athletes on the team have grown up playing together in LGLL since they were 8-year-olds in the Double-A level. Now, as...

A shutout, a clean sheet and an impressive performance.  Los Gatos High boys soccer coach Joel Fumia couldn’t have asked for anything more after the Wildcats’ 2-0 win over Milpitas High on Jan. 5. The victory came just two days after Los Gatos edged Monta...

The year before Joel Fumia took over the reins of the Los Gatos High School boys soccer program, the Wildcats finished 2-8-1 in the SCVAL De Anza Division, a last-place finish that earned them a demotion to the SCVAL’s lower El Camino Division.  In three...