2019 Sun Devil Football Kickoff Luncheon | Tempe Chamber of Commerce on Glue Up

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The Tempe Chamber of Commerce, the Sun Devil Club and the ASU Alumni Association are proud to partner with the entire ASU Sun Devil Football organization to help celebrate the start of the 2019 season with an exciting celebration just above home field!

The 19th annual ASU Sun Devil Football Kickoff Luncheon will be held for the very first time in Sun Devil Stadium at the new SanTan Ford Club! With views of the field and "A" mountain, this venue will make you feel like you are part of the game! Highlights include on-stage interviews and Q&A with team starting players and Coach Edwards. Sparky and the ASU Spirit Squad will be on hand to keep the energy high!

You don't want to miss this outstanding event in it's new location! Seating is limited and partner tables including a player or coach are still available.

Get your seats today!

Agenda

Friday, August 23, 2019 11:30^AM to 1:35^PM

11:30^AM - 12:15^PM

Registration and Networking

Registration and raffles will be open 30 minutes prior to the event start. Stay tuned for the availability of pre-purchase raffle sales!

12:15^PM - 12:20^PM

Welcoming Remarks

Anne Gill, President & CEO of the Tempe Chamber welcomes the audience.

12:20^PM - 12:30^PM

Welcome & Team Entrance
Tim Hovik

Tim Hovik of San Tan Ford welcomes the audience and rallies in the team!

Tim Hovik
Owner at San Tan Ford

12:30^PM - 12:50^PM

Lunch Start & Raffle Break

12:50^PM - 12:55^PM

Tim Healey Welcome

"Voice of the Sun Devils" Tim Healey will welcome the attendees and give thoughts on the upcoming season.

Tim Healey
Voice of the Sun Devils

12:55^PM - 1:00^PM

Dr. Christine Wilkinson

Dr. Christine Wilksinson, President of ASU Alumni shares updates on ASU Alumni support programs.

Dr. Christine Wilkinson
President & CEO of ASU Alumni Association

1:00^PM - 1:05^PM

Ray Anderson Remarks

Ray Anderson
Vice President of University Athletics at Arizona State University
Prior to joining the Sun Devil Family in 2014, Ray served as the Executive Vice President of Football Operations for the (NFL) National Football League.

A Los Angeles native, Anderson earned a BA in political science from Stanford and a juris doctorate degree from Harvard Law School. He was an all-league high school quarterback and shortstop, and a three-year football letterman and two-year baseball letterman at Stanford.

In 2016, he was named by Forbes Magazine as one of the 25 Most Influential Minorities in Sports noting that he had “helped position the Sun Devils as one of the most innovative brands in college sports.”

1:05^PM - 1:10^PM

Coach Edwards Remarks
Herm Edwards

Herm Edwards
Head Coach at Arizona State Sun Devil Football
Former NFL head coach and ESPN Analyst Herm Edwards was named the 24th head coach of Sun Devil Football, as announced by Arizona State University and Vice President of University Athletics Ray Anderson on December 3, 2017.

Edwards arrives in Tempe with a football legacy that has impacted thousands, whether as a player, coach, analyst, motivational speaker and author, or community advocate and philanthropist.

At ASU, Edwards will take a proactive approach to developing coordinators and assistant coaches, drawing on his nearly three decades of NFL experience in a variety of capacities and wide range of leadership positions within both the sport of football and in other endeavors. That experience will also be utilized in an effort to develop players to prepare for the next stage of their careers after college.

Edwards co-authored the book You Play to Win the Game – Leadership Lessons for Success On and Off the Field with ESPN’s Shelley Smith, and he was involved in longtime NFL referee Jim Tunney’s book, It’s the Will, Not the Skill – Principles and Philosophies of Success as Seen Through the Eyes, Mind and Heart of Herm Edwards.

Edwards and his wife Lia are the proud parents of three children: Marcus, Gabrielle and Vivian.

1:10^PM - 1:30^PM

Q&A Session Coach Edwards and Players
Tim Healey

Tim Healey
Voice of the Sun Devils
Tim Healey is in his 46th year in broadcasting, and 21stth season as the radio play-by-play voice of ASU Football, Men’s Basketball & Baseball. Over the past two decades, he has called close to 1,500 Sun Devil football / men’s basketball /Baseball games on the radio.

Healey was named the Arizona Sportscaster-of-the-Year each of the last 2 years (2015 & 2016) by the National Sports Media Association. He spent 26 years (1973—99) as a TV news & sports anchor at 6 different television stations around the country, including 3 ½ years (1983-87) as Sports Director of Channel 10 in Phoenix, and 11 years (1988-99) as an Emmy-Award winning sportscaster at Channel 3 in Phoenix.

Healey is a 1973 Magna Cum Laude graduate of Penn State University and native of Washington, D.C.

1:30^PM - 1:35^PM

Closing Remarks & Raffle Drawing