PRESS RELEASE: Charter Oak High School football players Darl Bernardino, Kamden Brown, Kyle Morales, Ryan Nguyen, and Robert Owen III were honored this week at the 46th Annual Scholar Athlete Awards banquet for the National Football Foundation at the Pasadena Convention Center.
Every year the National Football Foundation honors academic and athletic excellence on school’s varsity football teams as part of the San Gabriel Valley Chapter and Pasadena areas. The criteria for the scholar athlete award includes a minimum GPA, a member of the varsity team their senior year, exhibited outstanding football achievement, and demonstrated leadership on and off campus.
In addition to the five Charter Oak players aforementioned that received scholar-athlete recognition, the Tournament of Roses Scholarship presented by their President was awarded to Ryan Nguyen. The David M. Davis Scholarship award was presented to Darl Bernardino and the Coach Jim Brownfield Scholarship award was presented to Kamden Brown.
In the 46th year’s banquet’s history no school has had 5 representatives and the chapter has never awarded three scholarship award winners to the same school.

Congrats to Charter Oak Scholar Athlete winners Ryan Nguyen, Robert Owen, Kyle Morales, Kamden Brown, Darl Bernadino pic.twitter.com/OUEJndTxI2

— Fred J. Robledo (@SGVNSports) March 24, 2016