Chaminade’s Thomas Gamba is one high Flyer.
Getting cut from the Catholic school’s crew team as a freshman four years ago was the greatest thing to happen for the Syracuse-bound grad, as he instead found a talent calling games from the sidelines and earned what few high schoolers have.
Gamba was honored at the 2026 Sports Emmys in May for receiving the Jim McKay Memorial Scholarship as an outstanding student broadcaster who has called MLB games and done studio work for NHL Network.
“It’s a little bittersweet leaving this place,” Gamba, who called the Little League Classic in 2024, told The Post. “It’s given me so much. … Hopefully, I made this a better place over the four years that I came here.”
Gamba also took home two first-place trophies from the New York Press Association for his work, as he enjoyed mentorship from Post columnist Mike Vaccaro and former Postie Pat Reichart, who now moderates the school’s sports broadcasting club.
Reichart remembers well seeing that Gamba had the right stuff from his first call in ninth grade.
“Thomas stood behind that mic for introductions and just leaned into it like he was at Madison Square Garden,” the teacher said. “It was to the point that everyone from coaches to parents just kind of stopped and started looking around or looking at me like, ‘Who is this kid?’ ”
Gamba’s next goal is to get behind the microphone to call Cuse hoops once he gets to campus in the fall, but right now, he can only think about paying it forward to fellow Flyers.
“I hope we continue to expand and just continue to keep pushing out kids that want to do this at the next level,” he said.
“Not only do that, but for them to just enjoy what they’re doing here.”
