Los Gatos Weekly-Times

Photograph courtesy of Robert Semichy.

Only the bloomers suggest a historical context for this undated photograph found during a housecleaning by retired LGHS teacher Robert Semichy. The photograph was taken in front of the old boys' and girls' gym located at the site of the present girls' gym.

John S. Baggerly

LGHS has fielded many top athletes

'Shannon Sullivan is one of the three best athletes in school," said Butch Cattolico, head football coach and athletic director at Los Gatos High School.

A nosy reporter asked, "And who are the other two?" The coach replied, "I won't tell you. I'd make a lot of enemies."

The Wildcats were that rich in talent during Sullivan's high school years, which ended in 1995. And there has been no talent drop-off in the 1995-96 school year, or so it seems from Dick Sparrer's weekly sports pages.

Today, Sullivan is on a softball scholarship at Michigan State University. She joins many other male and female LGHS athletes who've received college athletic scholarships in recent years.

Other LGHS girls playing college sports with athletic scholarships include Kim Hay, a sprinter at Duke; Julie Varroza, a swimmer at Georgia; Jessica Acord, a pitcher at Santa Clara University, and Mollin Costello, who plays field hockey at Santa Clara; Allison White and Shelby Edwards, both on the volleyball squad at Oregon State University; April Colgrove, volleyball at University of Nevada, Reno; Stephanie Schlink, volleyball at Georgia, and Lisa Nanez, on the soccer team at Santa Clara University.

Also on the distaff side, Megan Frey is on the payroll as a statistician for men's baseball and men's and women's basketball at Santa Clara.

And Gatos High male graduates, many on athletic scholarships, are and have been competing. Antonio Lannes is on the swim team at Bucknell University in Lewiston, Pa.; Tom Krug is a quarterback at Notre Dame; Jeremy Sutter is on the tennis ladder at University of Illinois and played in the Rolex Intercollegiate Tennis championships; Rusty Millard was a regular as a freshman on the soccer team at Westmar University in Iowa; Brad Sanfilippo played shortstop at Nevada, Reno; Darren Fisk, football, Colorado University; Derek Krug, football at Oregon State University; Mike Fisher, quarterback at Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo along with brothers Dave and Jim Lombardi; Ryan Marcos, football, San Diego University.

With the passing of two years, Cattolico revealed that "the three best athletes in the school" were Sullivan; shortstop-halfback Sanfilippo and Tom Krug, now a quarterback at Notre Dame.

LGHS currently fields boys' and girls' teams in the following sports: cross country, basketball, water polo, wrestling, soccer, tennis, swimming, diving, crew and tumbling (which is offered at West Valley College, the high school having dropped it in 1979).There are also coed teams in badminton and golf.

Football is offered for boys as are baseball, rugby and mountain biking. Girls have an opportunity to play softball and field hockey.