Sports

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...

When a high school baseball team graduates eight senior starters—all of whom are either playing at four-year or two-year programs—the cupboard is usually bare the following season.  At tradition-rich Los Gatos High, however, there’s really no such thing as a rebuilding process—it’s more like a...

Despite getting swept by Central Coast Section power Palo Alto High last week, the Los Gatos High baseball team still controls its destiny to make the playoffs.  The Wildcats enter the week with a 6-6 record in the Santa Clara Valley League’s De Anza Division,...

For Los Gatos High senior Kylie Chang, golf runs in her family.  The Wildcats’ No. 1 player grew up around the game because her parents and her older brother all play the sport. But it’s Kylie who may have bragging rights when it comes to...

Just a few blocks from where the Seattle Seahawks were battling the New England Patriots for football’s biggest prize Sunday, giant turquoise boxes and palms were bathed in sunset rays, as a nearby mid-rise office building hummed. Around a paved bend, inside a hacienda-style structure,...

Back in the day, if you wanted to get exposure as a student athlete, you had to focus on attending camps and reaching to play in higher leagues. But now, with the advent of social media—and the ability to craft your own platform at your...

Tommy Splaine was on the receiving end of not one but two Gatorade showers in the aftermath of the University of Arizona baseball team’s riveting 4-3 win over USC in the Pac-12 Tournament championship game on May 25 in Scottsdale, Ariz.  Splaine’s one-out single in...

The Los Gatos High boys and girls basketball teams are in the pole position in their respective quests to win Santa Clara Valley Athletic League De Anza Division titles.  Both teams are off to 4-0 starts in league play and in sole possession of first...

The biggest move in the off-season concerning the Los Gatos High School athletics program is one that didn’t happen.  When Brent Brennan—Scotty Brennan’s father—left San Jose State University to take the University of Arizona football head coaching position last January, the question suddenly turned to...

Macie Yannoni picked a great time to score on a header for the first time in her career.  The junior standout headed a ball in from the goal area off a corner kick from Caitlyn Simons in the 94th minute that gave the Los Gatos...