Sports

After a five-year stretch which resulted in multiple league championships and berths in the CIF State Meet, the Los Gatos High School boys and girls cross country teams are in a rebuilding phase this season.  Both squads were hit hard by graduation, especially on the...

Los Gatos High girls water polo coach Don Appleton said as long as the team focuses on improving, the Wildcats will once again reach lofty heights this season. They’re coming off a 2022 campaign that included a historic run through the Santa Clara Valley Athletic...

Few prep sports teams in the Bay Area—if any—have to travel farther for away league games than the Los Gatos High boys lacrosse squad.  Due to a variety of factors, the Wildcats play in the Pacific Coast Athletic League’s upper Gabilan Division, which includes Salinas...

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...

The Los Gatos High boys 4x400 meter relay team is running for keeps this season.  The quartet of Jake Bohane, Brady Kamali, Levi Romero and Wil Brennan clocked a swift 3 minutes, 21.01 seconds in the St. Francis Invitational on March 18, easily the top...

Last week, locals celebrated as 25-year-old mountain biker Haley Batten clinched the silver at the Olympics for the United States. Now, her brother has been sharing with the Los Gatan about how this impressive achievement was made possible, in part, due to the training she...

The Los Gatos High boys and girls basketball teams completed 2022 with wins in their respective tournaments. Now it’s on to league play.  The boys team earned an impressive 66-54 win over Mountain View in the third-place game of the Aptos/Santa Cruz Warriors Invitational on...

The Bay Area Fencing Club in Los Gatos has two goals: to bring the sport to the masses and provide a platform for those wishing to advance to the highest level.  In Andy Peng, John Wang, Lisa Posthumus and Bogdan Gurinenko, the new fencing center—located...

Los Gatos High didn’t have a girls tennis coach just days before the start of the season four weeks ago. In stepped Pablo Cueto—an on-campus teacher—to fill the void.  “It was crazy,” he said. “The other coach had to leave so they needed someone right...

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...