Newport Harbor Football
The Kamble Chai Foundation Athletic Scholarship
The Kamble Chai Foundation is a publicly supported memorial established in December 1997 to honor Mr. Kamble Chai, an outstanding Chinese-American community leader and a man of great virtue. The foundation focuses its worldwide philanthropic activities on education and has established an annual scholarship award of $500 to a senior athlete of the Newport Harbor High School Football team.
The recipient shall be chosen by the Coaching Staff. The criteria for this award are ‘NEED’ – exemplified by Never giving up, Excellence, Enthusiasm and Dedication to the team. The recipient shall receive a commemorative plaque to the scholarship and a perpetual plaque shall be presented to the school.
Thank you for considering a donation to The Kamble Chai Foundation Athletic Scholarship.
Garrett Emerson and Carter Gomez were the 2022 Kamble Chai Foundation award recipients.
Past Recipients
- 2022 – Garrett Emerson & Carter Gomez
- 2021 – Duke Starnes & Grayson Simon
- 2020* – Tim Tizon & Matthew Osborne
- 2019 – Jack Starnes & Chad Koste
- 2018 – Austin Osumi
- 2017 – Blake Gomez & Juan Gomez
- 2016 – Blake Terry & Tucker Knipp
- 2015 – Max Spruill & Arthur Guillen
- 2014 – Brett Beaudette
- 2013 – Joe Zavala & Gerardo Aceves
- 2012 – Emmanuel Jogwe
- 2011 – Ted Barry
- 2010 – Trevor Lawrence & Connor Miki
- 2009 – Brandon Coffey & Zack Moghaddam
- 2008 – Peter Kinney & Nick Svendsen
- 2007 – Dusty Campbell & Ben Frazier
- 2006 – Brian Beaudette
- 2005 – Billy Munce & Ryan Uhl
- 2004 – Efrain Castro & Greg Miner
- 2003 – Austin Nieto
- 2002 – Jimmy Sanchez
- 2001 – Lou Castillo
*’20 was COVID year, season was played in spring 2021
Blake Terry 2016 Kamble Chai Recipient
Tucker Knipp 2016 Kamble Chai Recipient
