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When Nicole Steiner unleashed a throw of 41 feet, 6 ½ inches—the top mark in the Central Coast Section this season—in the St. Francis Invitational on March 18, she admitted it wasn’t her most technically sound effort.  “There wasn’t a whole lot of technique. It...

Now in its sixth season as a program, the Los Gatos Wildcats ice hockey team remains one of the best and most consistent in the area even amid a pandemic.  The sport took a major hit worldwide in youth club participation levels at the onset...

Six years ago, Edwyn Mendoza was an eighth grader at Ida Jew Academy in east San Jose.  A lot has happened since then for the San Jose native. Now in his second professional season playing for Town FC—the San Jose Earthquakes’ second team club—the 19-year-old...

Even when the other team is making a huge run or winning a game, the Los Gatos High girls volleyball team doesn’t panic. That demeanor starts at the top with coach Brynja Thompson and goes down to the players.  That’s why when Palo Alto High...

Two more Los Gatos High sports teams have clinched league championships in the current winter sports season. With the school having already won titles in girls basketball and wrestling, the boys basketball team pulled off a remarkable repeat title season. A year after earning...

After a five-year run as an assistant baseball coach at Saratoga High from 2011-2015, Mike Minkel knew he wanted to run his own team as an on-campus teacher.  The 39-year-old achieved his goal when he was recently named the new Los Gatos High baseball coach....

The Los Gatos High football team was on the cusp of bringing home the program’s first-ever CIF State Championship Bowl Game title. However, the Wildcats came up just short following a 45-42 loss to Central Valley Christian of Visalia in the Division 2-A championship game...

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...

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...

Jared Allen, who was raised on a ranch in Morgan Hill and graduated from Los Gatos High School, was announced as a Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee on Thursday. Allen was born in Dallas and attended Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill. He'd been...