Congratulations to our Scholarship Recipients!

• Our inaugural year (2019 -2020 ) recipient was Giancarlo Esposito!

 Giancarlo's Experience:

The scholarship has been immensely useful in helping me cover the related costs for playing on a Japanese rugby team such as gear, transportation and dues. Purchases like a train commuter pass becomes very useful when going from school to home and back again later for practice. Moreover, during away games the scholarship helped me pay for taxis and filling up my train pass. In the academic sphere the scholarship helped me pay for all of my books for my classes, especially Japanese, where I needed to buy up to 6 separate books! Lastly the scholarship covered my bullet train ticket to visit my host family in Hiroshima for the winter holiday. While money was tight to be able to come home for the holiday break the scholarship allowed me  to go and spend time with my long time Japanese host family during Christmas and New Years. Having this scholarship gave me an extra ease of mind knowing all the surprise costs I ran into in Tokyo were fully covered for and allowed me to have more fun socializing with new friends and teammates in Japanese.