More than 200,000 visits are made to Children's Hospital each year by families from every corner of our state and beyond. Children's Hospital is Wisconsin's only hospital dedicated solely to the health and well being of children and is nationally and internationally renown for its Heart Center and bone marrow transplant programs.
Participants can designate their pledges to support any one of dozens of programs.
The run and walk was founded as Al's Run in 1978 by former Marquette University basketball coach Al McGuire as a way for him to thank the Southeastern Wisconsin community for its support of the Marquette Warriors during their 1977 NCAA Championship season. Since then, as many as 29,000 runners and walkers have participated in a single event.