The Maxwell Lampl Memorial 2024-2025 Scholarship

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St. John is the patron saint of love, loyalty, and friendships. John was the only Apostle who did not abandon Christ during His passion. Scripture teaches that love and loyalty are virtues that should guide Christian conduct. “Do not press me to leave you and to stop going with you, for wherever you go, I shall go, wherever you live, I shall live.” Ruth 1:16. Max demonstrated steadfast love and loyalty for his family and friends. He stood by them and was trustworthy and compassionate toward them. They knew by his actions that he loved them, and he continues to live in their hearts today.


St. Thomas Aquinas recognizes that truth is an important virtue for Christians, and that “to say what is true is a good act.”1 Aristotle said, “The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.”2 Max was an independent and critical thinker who had the courage of his convictions. He educated himself and drew his own conclusions about important issues of the day, and he was faithful to his understanding of the truth regardless of whether it was fashionable or conflicted with popular consensus.


Fortitude is one of the cardinal virtues. 3 “Fortitude is the moral virtue that ensures firmness in difficulties and constancy in the pursuit of the good.”4 Max played football and basketball at Cardinal Newman, but he was passionate about baseball. Fortitude, grit, and determination helped Max to succeed as a baseball pitcher. Some of his accomplishments include:

  • making the Cardinal Newman varsity baseball team as an 8th grader in 2012 and leading the team in Strikeouts (19) and ERA (2.26) and finishing second in Innings Pitched (21.2);
  • leading Cardinal pitchers in Wins (3), Complete Games (3), ERA (3.40), Innings Pitched (59.2), and Strikeouts (67) as a sophomore in 2014;
  • pitching two Complete Games in a single week during the playoffs in May 2014, an 8-4 win at Florence Christian and a 2-1 loss at Hilton Head Prep;
  • pitching a Perfect Game for River Bluff High School over Spring Valley in 2015, retiring all 21 batters he faced and striking out 12;
  • leading Gator starting pitchers in WHIP (1.18), OBA (.164), and Strikeouts (50) despite having his season shortened by a serious knee injury sustained while pitching against White Knoll.

Max suffered a second complete tear of his ACL during his senior season in 2016. He pitched three innings of relief against White Knoll hours after he received the diagnosis.

1 Summa Theologica, II-II, Q109 2 Essay, “The High-Minded Man” 3 Catechism of the Catholic Church, Paragraph 1805 4 Catechism of the Catholic Church, Paragraph 1808 5 Catechism of the Catholic Church, Paragraph 1804

Scholarship Eligibility

Any Cardinal Newman student may apply for the Maxwell J. Lampl Memorial Scholarship. However, applicants should be serious, intellectually curious students. Applicants should also be actively involved in Cardinal Newman athletics, either as a player or in a formal support role (e.g., team manager, scoreboard operator, etc.). Special consideration may be given to applicants who are affiliated with the Cardinal Newman baseball program.

Applicant Essay

Each applicant should submit a short (1-2 pages) essay in which the applicant identifies a virtue that he or she intends to develop and practice at Cardinal Newman School and beyond.  “Human virtues are firm attitudes, stable dispositions, habitual perfections of intellect and will that govern our actions, order our passions, and guide our conduct according to reason and faith... The virtuous man is he who freely practices the good.”5 
 
"Why is the virtue about which you have chosen to write important to you? How will developing it help to improve your life and the lives of others?"

The application and essay deadline is Friday, March 14,2025.  Please complete the online portion and then turn in essays to Mrs. Yoho in the Advancement Office on A-wing. 

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