IOWA CITY, Iowa — A Cedar Rapids girl has been named Honorary Kid Captain ahead of the Hawkeye’s trip to Wisconsin on Saturday.
Lily Sebastian was born prematurely at just over 2 pounds with giant omphalocele, a rare abdominal birth defect. She spent almost the entirety of the first year of her life at University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital, where she had her first surgery just one day after her birth.
Her twin sister went home after five weeks in the neonatal ICU, but Lily was discharged after 299 days…