San Antonio Sports announced that Pieper High School’s Nick Rogers and Harlen High School’s Eddie Salas will serve as head coaches for the 2025 San Antonio Sports All-Star Football Game presented by Valero. The game will showcase top local high school players following the All-American Bowl on Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025 in the Alamodome. Rogers will coach Team Gold and Salas will coach Team Black in the battle between the area’s top seniors.
The San Antonio Sports All-Star Football Game will feature players who are committed to play for some of the top universities in the country as well as players looking for an additional chance to impress college scouts with potential scholarships to offer. Sixty-one (61) who were in the 2024 All-Star Game signed to play college football, including eleven (11) going to NCAA DI schools. Ninety-eight (98) were named all-district and four were MVPs.
Players from Bexar and seven surrounding counties are nominated by their high school coaches and chosen by a selection committee featuring broadcasters, journalists and former coaches. The 2025 All-Star Football Game rosters will be announced in the fall.
Nick Rogers is the first head football coach and athletic coordinator at Pieper High School, the newest high school in Comal ISD. Rogers was previously at Cedar Park High School in Leander ISD where he served as offensive coordinator and quarterback coach from 2015-2020. During his 13 years of coaching, Rogers has helped lead his teams to a state championship title in 2015, six district championships and he coached in another state championship game in 2020. Pieper has played two seasons against UIL competition in 5A D2, going 2-8 the first varsity season and 12-2 in their second season, winning a district championship and making it to the state quarterfinals in 2023. Coach Rogers was named 5A Coach of the Year by the Padilla Poll that season.
Eddie Salas has been coaching high school athletics for 25 years. He has been the athletic coordinator and head football coach at Northside ISD’s Harlan High School since the school opened in 2017, with six playoff appearances in six seasons including two district championships and a 53-18 record. In 2023, Salas was awarded the 2023 Texas High School Coaches Association Region 8 Head Football Coach of the Year. Before Harlan High School, Salas was the head football coach at Holmes High School, improving the program record to a 15-year high. Salas also made coaching stops at Boerne Champion, where he won the Lone Star Cup State Championship, Boerne High School which won the 2007 Softball State Championship, Edison and Highland High Schools.