Whitefish/Area Athletes Selected for East-West Shrine Game

Over the Christmas Holiday the rosters were revealed for the 78th Montana East-West Shrine Game.

Memorial Stadium in Great Falls has been selected as the 2025 host site with the game to be played on Saturday June 21st, at 7pm.

The rosters feature 40 athletes, on each team, from the Treasure State with one Canadian to join each group.

Players are nominated by schools and coaches across the state and are selected as the "best of the best" to participate in the contest.

In all, nine players from the Valley have been named to the West roster with several more being named alternates.

Two Whitefish Players have been selected for this year's game with one Bulldog being named an alternate.

Carson Gulick was named to the roster as a Safety while Scotty Dalen was named to the roster as a Defensive End.

CJ Thew has been named as an alternate.

In a cool full circle moment: Carson Gulick's Dad, Patrick, played in the East-West Shrine game back in 1991. Meanwhile, Dalen's Grandpa, Gary, played in the 1965 game, 60 years ago.

The rest of the Valley athletes named to the West roster include

From Glacier: Offensive Tackle Ben Winters, Wide Receiver Bridger Smith, Running Back Kobe Dorcheus, Inside Linebacker Mark Ahner & Safety Carson Baker.

Offensive Guard Lane Voermans from Columbia Falls.

Offensive Tackle Henry Carlson from Bigfork.

Eureka's Wes Banks was also named to the roster as a Defensive Tackle.

Helena Capital's Kyle Mihelish has been named the Head Coach for the West. 

Full look at the rosters & alternates here: https://www.montanaeastwestshrinegame.org/west.html

According to the Montana East-West Shrine Game's Official Website:

It is one of the oldest high school all-star football games in America. Every year since 1947, Montana high schools' finest players are selected to compete in a game to raise money and to help make the public aware of the expert orthopedic and burn care available at the Shriner's Children's in Spokane, Washington. In recent years, the Montana game is the top high school Shrine Game in the nation for hospital donations. In the last ten years this game has raised over $1 Million.