A brain-tumor diagnosis kept Jackson Tijerina from playing on his flag football team when he was 5 years old.
Jackson, now 8, still loves football — especially the Iowa Hawkeyes. After being nominated...
Kayli Reese, Managing News Editor
• August 29, 2019
Besides riding his hover board outside, 14-year-old Cedar Rapids native Aidan Kasper never really got into sports. He prefers crafts such as origami, where he’s learned how to create nearly every animal...
Gabe Graber, 14, became a lifelong Hawkeye fan when he took his first breath in the University of Iowa Children’s Hospital.
It was Jan. 1, 2005, the same day the Hawkeyes stunned the LSU Tigers to...
Ten-year-old Garret Schuster loves to dance.
Because of a blood disorder, Garret can’t participate in contact sports and instead he uses competitive dance as an outlet. Garret, an Epworth, Iowa,...
A multitude of tests resulted in no answers for the Jackson family about why Livia Jackson had episodes of extreme vomiting.
It wasn’t until Livia came to the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s...
Seven-year-old Mason Gonzalez has his own way of communicating and telling his “mom and dad he loves them.”
Mason, a native of Jesup, Iowa, will be the Kid Captain for Iowa’s football game against...
Harper Still loves to dance and help her mother cook, as many 3-year-olds do.
But before becoming the Kid Captain for this week’s game against Purdue, Harper’s parents noticed she was experiencing...
While most kids ask their parents to make their favorite foods, 9-year-old Noah Hodgins loves to satisfy his taste buds with his own creations. The Cedar Rapids native aspires to become a chef.
Noah...
The Smith family pulled into a parking spot reserved for the Kid Captain before the Iowa/Illinois game on Oct. 7, 2017. Parked next to them was former Hawkeye and New England Patriot defensive end Adrian...
When Christopher Turnis was born, doctors predicted he might not live for more than an hour after birth.
Fourteen years later, Christopher, from Dubuque, will serve as this week’s Kid Captain for Iowa’s...
When Mason Zabel came home from the hospital a few days after his birth, his parents had to take him right back because of the results of his newborn scans.
His scans came back positive for phenylketonuria,...
This summer, 9-year-old Ean Gorsh saw his first moose in person.
His family had repeatedly postponed a trip to Alaska as Ean popped in and out of the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital...
