{"id":73138,"date":"2025-11-28T11:19:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T11:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/73138\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T11:19:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T11:19:13","slug":"former-oakland-high-student-thrives-with-life-changing-damian-lillard-scholarship-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/73138\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Oakland High student thrives with life-changing Damian Lillard Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">OAKLAND, Calif. &#8211; A former Oakland High School student is flourishing after receiving a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/education\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:life-changing scholarship;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">life-changing scholarship<\/a> from Portland Trail Blazers All-Star Damian Lillard.<\/p>\n<p>First recipient of Damian Lillard Scholarship<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Kayla Sisavat was the first recipient of the Damian Lillard Scholarship to Portland State University. She is receiving $25,000 a year for her studies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sisavat, who was raised by a single mother after her father died of cancer, said the experience motivated her to excel academically.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;It gave me that ambition and drive to succeed in school and to push myself whether I wanted to give up or not,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Lillard\u2019s goal: Support students who need it most<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Local perspective<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lillard, an Oakland native and fellow Oakland High graduate, said the scholarship aims to support young people who need the opportunity most.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Knowing that we reached someone who needed it and that is going to help them continue to grow and have an opportunity like this, I think that\u2019s the fulfilling story for me personally,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Damian Lillard Scholarship offers students from nine Bay Area high schools the chance to attend Portland State University. The award covers tuition, food and housing for four years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND, Calif. &#8211; A former Oakland High School student is flourishing after receiving a life-changing scholarship from Portland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[34062,42862,143,145,42861,144,42860,7502],"class_list":["post-73138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-damian-lillard","tag-kayla-sisavat","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-high-school","tag-oakland-news","tag-portland-state-university","tag-portland-trail-blazers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}