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December 10, 2025

New coach aims to spark next era of girls soccer brilliance

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After more than a decade of coaching youth soccer and a lifetime spent immersed in sports, Lisa Nunes Mitchell is stepping into a new chapter as the head coach of the Los Gatos High School girls soccer team. A Los Gatos alumna herself, Mitchell brings...

Los Gatos High baseball team reloads for another strong season

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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...

Los Gatos High baseball repeats as SCVAL De Anza Division champs; CCS playoffs next

Three teams—Los Gatos, Los Altos and Palo Alto—entered the final day of the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League De Anza Division season with an opportunity to share or win an outright championship.  In the end, it was the Wildcats standing alone at the top after...

‘Cats roundup: Elmore, Stefanopoulos win cross country league titles; field hockey and boys water polo teams advance to CCS playoff semifinals

When Shea Elmore won the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League De Anza Division Cross Country Finals as a freshman, she was running with then-teammate Sophie Tau to cross the finish line first.  The two were in a virtual dead-heat to the finish, and both had...

Wildcats ace Kayla Mitchell among section’s elite

In most sports at the prep level, the top athletes and college prospects play for their high school.  Tennis happens to be one of those sports where it’s hit and miss, depending on the player. For Wildcats’ sophomore ace Kayla Mitchell, playing in high school...

Los Gatos boys soccer team primed for league championship run

Frank Marotti Jr. had beads of sweat draped on his forehead on a frigid 45-degree night—and he wasn’t even playing.  To say the Los Gatos High boys soccer coach gets into the Wildcats’ games would be an understatement. The players seem to take after his...

Los Gatos NJB All Net teams win Nationals

Three teams from the Los Gatos National Junior Basketball (NJB) program won national championships last month to cap the 2023-2024 winter season.  Within the NJB’s top division, All Net, the Los Gatos fourth- and eighth-grade boys team captured titles. Los Gatos’ eighth-grade boys divisional team...

Jen Beattie: a champion on and off the pitch

Over the course of her 17-year professional soccer playing career, Jen Beattie has been on her fair share of championship-winning teams.  While the 33-year-old Bay FC defender is still going strong on the pitch, she’s championing another cause: breast cancer awareness. Beattie, who was 29 when...

Los Gatos High boys soccer team off to solid start in what it hopes will be a league championship, CCS playoff season

The Los Gatos High boys soccer team finished one point behind Fremont High for the league championship last season, which cost the Wildcats a Central Coast Section playoff berth.  Even though the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League El Camino Division is competitive and features some...

Sports roundup: Monte Sereno’s Nikki Dzurko cheers artistic swimmers to Olympic silver; Chloe Miller competes at Concacaf U15 championship

Even though Nicole Dzurko didn’t get to compete in this year’s Paris Olympic Games, she could take satisfaction in knowing that she played a part in the U.S. artistics swimming team’s journey to winning a silver medal. The 24-year-old Monte Sereno native—who still lists the...

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