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Last season, the Los Gatos High boys volleyball team got off to a strong start only to fade to the finish. This year, the Wildcats are looking to stay healthy and peak as the season progresses.  “One of the big things we’re paying attention to...

Mike Vick is making his first and only season of high school soccer well worth it.  The Los Gatos High senior is averaging a goal a game, including the lone tally in the Wildcats’ 1-0 win over Milpitas High on Jan. 26. The victory strengthened...

The last time the Los Gatos High School girls basketball team lost a Santa Clara Valley Athletic League De Anza Division game—Jan. 28, 2022—Wildcats coach Sara Quilici Giles only had one kid.  Now a proud mom of two children, Giles briefly reflected on the team’s...

Brett Heimlich’s road to winning the Stanley Cup began years ago in Los Gatos. He’d recently graduated from high school and was casting around for a policing or audio/visual job, when he went to a family barbecue at the home of a friend his mom...

Few boys cross country teams have a storied history such as Los Gatos High.  From 1980 to 2014, the Wildcats won 10 Central Coast Section championships, had five runner-up finishes and five individual champions, including two—Matthew Petrillo and Chris Foster—who were repeat champions. So, the Wildcats’...

As Wil Brennan crossed the finish line in the boys 4x400-meter relay race in the Central Coast Section Track and Field Championships at Gilroy High on May 21, he reached out and gave a little tap to Los Altos’ fast-charging anchor leg runner.  The two...

A Hall of Fame induction ceremony tends to be a significant event for various reasons, but this year’s version of the Los Gatos High School’s Athletic Hall of Fame ceremony has the added layer that it will be the first one since 2019.  The rescheduled...

There might not be enough superlatives to describe what Karly Frangieh and the Los Gatos High girls swimming team did in the Central Coast Section Championships May 5-6 at Hollister High.  Record-breaking, superb, fast and spectacular are some of the words that come to mind...

The last handful of seasons for the Los Gatos High girls water polo team have been some of the best in program history.  The Wildcats’ recently completed 2023 campaign was another one to put in the record books, as they finished 23-3, including going a...

In the first practice following a 6-1, eight-inning loss to Serra High School on March 1, the Los Gatos High School baseball team impressed its coach, Mike Minkel.  “The Serra game we had five errors—four of those throwing errors,” he said. “So the first thing...