Sports

Matt Ford-Wellman knows he’s not one of the household names on the talent-laden Los Gatos High School baseball team.  However, the senior pitcher finds other ways to contribute, a fact not lost on Wildcats coach Mike Minkel.  “The ultimate team-first teammate,” Minkel said in a text...

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...

Henry Reyes took over the Los Gatos High field hockey program in 1990. Thirty-one years later, he’s still stalking the sidelines, his raspy voice as distinguishable as ever. The 16-time Central Coast Section champion Wildcats are geared up for another run at title glory. Nothing...

The Los Gatos High girls volleyball team knows exactly what it needs to improve on going forward.  The Wildcats enter the week at 3-2 with their two losses coming to perennial NorCal powers Mitty and Lowell of San Francisco. They have additional non-league matches against...

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...

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...

Virtually every high school basketball team that advances far in the playoffs or wins championships have one thing in common: they stay busy during the summer league season.  Los Gatos boys coach Nick Ward made sure to put the team in a position to succeed...

Manager Brian Chiala couldn’t have asked for a better group of players or assistant coaches to work with on this year’s Los Gatos Little League 9U All Star team.  The affable Chiala has coached all age divisions from Little League to Pony to the high...

Even after the No. 5 seed Los Gatos High girls water polo team was eliminated by No. 4 seed St. Francis 6-4 in the Central Coast Section Open Division playoff quarterfinals on Nov. 6, coach Don Appleton is confident the Wildcats are in prime...

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...