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