(Radio Iowa) University of Iowa president Barbara Wilson says the student athletes on the Hawkeye football team want to win just as much as everybody else and she’s asking fans to find a way to be supportive.

The Hawkeye football team won ten games last season and played in both the Big 10 championship game and the Citrus Bowl on New Year’s Day. This year’s team record stands at three-and-three and two of those losses were in Kinnick stadium in Iowa City.

Wilson describes Hawkeye sports as the corridor to the university.

The Iowa Wave started in 2017 after the hospital opened. At the end of the first quarter, everyone in the stadium — including the coaches and players on the field — turns toward patients and families watching the game from the 10th floor of the hospital.

Wilson has been the university’s president since mid-2021. She made her comments during taping of “Iowa Press” which airs Friday night, on Iowa P-B-S.