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Salem’s Jalen Cotto gets scholarship to Wes Welker camp
By Wendy Killeen

Globe Correspondent / May 17, 2012

DREAM COME TRUE: Jalen Cotto of Salem may be only 13, but his dream is to play football at Washington State University.

A seventh-grade student at the Salem Academy Charter School, Cotto has been playing football for as long as he can remember and is a member of the Salem Witches youth team.

He’ll now have the opportunity to hone his skills at a football clinic offered by Wes Welker ProCamps Saturday and Sunday at Bishop Fenwick High School in Peabody.

Cotto and Cameron O’Neill,12, of Easton, were selected to receive scholarships to the clinic through a collaboration of ProCamps and the DJ Dream Fund.

The fund was established by the family of DJ Henry of Easton, a football player at Pace University in New York who was fatally shot by police in October 2010.

The mission of the nonprofit is to share Henry’s love of sports by providing financial support to enable children and young adults to pursue healthy lifestyles through athletics and wellness programs.

At the clinic, participants will work on fundamental skills and the team concept of football, play daily games, and hear daily talks by Walker, the New England Patriots wide receiver. They also will get instruction from some of the top coaches in the Boston area.

They’ll leave the clinic with a ProCamps T-shirt, an autographed team photo with Welker, and School of the Legends online training videos.

The clinic benefits the Wes Welker Foundation.

Visit djdreamfund.org and weswelker.com.