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The Hawkeye Wave has been awarded the 2024 Readers’ Choice for Best College Sports Tradition, USA Today announced Tuesday.
The Hawkeye Wave tradition began at Kinnick Stadium in 2017.
It sees fans, athletes and coaches from both college football teams stop at the end of the first quarter to wave at pediatric patients and their families inside the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital, which overlooks the stadium.
The University of Iowa and the UI Stead Family Children’s Hospital also collaborate on the Kid Captain program, which started in 2009 to honor and share the stories of pediatric patients.
Each Kid Captain gets a commemorative jersey, a behind-the-scenes experience with the Hawkeyes football team, and they get to choose the song that plays at the stadium during the Hawkeye Wave.
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