35th ANNUAL
CHARLIE WEDEMEYER HIGH SCHOOL ALL-STAR FOOTBALL GAME

The Almaden Valley Rotary Club is proud to present the Annual Charlie Wedemeyer High School All-Star Football Game, the Silicon Valley Youth Classic. This year is our 35th year of honoring graduating senior high school football players. The game is scheduled to be played at 7:30 pm Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 at Spartan Stadium.

Congratulations to the Head Football COACHES, Mike Machado of Valley Christian High School for the South; and Shawn Thomas of Leigh High School for the North. The coaches have completed their selection of players and the player information is now available for the South Roster and the North Roster respectively. The rosters will have links to each player's page as the information from the players come in. Player's, check out your web page. Also, Check out the Rosters of past years. The more recent rosters have a link to each player's biographical information.

Heather Holdorf is this year's intern to the media relations post for the All-Star Football Game. She is a student at San Jose State.

PLAYERS, some of your accomplishments are not complete on your information sheets. Don't be afraid to include them all (league, team, school, previous years). Remember, these highlights will be in the game program and on this website for many years to come. And we need your mug shot(s).

The 2009 BANQUET is scheduled for Monday, May 18th at the 300 San Jose. The keynote speaker is Jim Tomsula, Defensive Line Coach for the San Francisco 49ers. Check out last year's Banquet where all the coaches and players were honored. The featured speaker was Guy McIntyre, Player's Representative for the San Francisco 49ers. He was introduced by Bob Braunstein Executive Producer Host for CAL-HI Sports Bay Area. He was introduced by John Ralston, Past Head Football Coach of Utah State, Stanford University, Denver Broncos and San Jose State University. The photos taken by the game photographer, Jerry Costanzo, at the banquet are used for the game program and on each of the the player's webpage. There also are candid pictures taken which are on the banquet page.

We have a very preliminary list of ALUMNI. Click HERE to view this list. Two tickets are available to every one of the past participants of the All Star games but you must get in touch with us AS SOON AS POSSIBLE to receive the tickets. Free tickets will not be available at the game.

Thanks to all the SPONSORS of the past. We will always be looking for a few large sponsors in the future. We have been blessed with many smaller sponsors that have made this game possible and allowed us to donate to many charities over the past years.

One of the primary charities is ALS. Charlie Wedemeyer has been an inspirational representative and has been a part of the Santa Clara County All-Star Football since ..... Read all about his story.

The game in 2008 was another BIG success. The North beat the South, 21-19 for North's third straight victory. Read the San Jose Mercury News article.

The Official Photos of the game by our game photographer are available. Also, additional photos by amateur Rotarians are on the Almaden Valley Rotary webpage.