DES MOINE, Iowa – Members of the Drake University football team and the Grand View University football team will be participating in the eighth annual Candoe's Wheelchair Basketball Game on Saturday, Feb. 24 at 4 p.m. at the Southview Middle School in Ankeny, Iowa.
The winner will play a championship game against the winners of the Des Moines Police Department and Des Moines Fire Department at 7 p.m.
The Bulldogs have participated in the event, which raises funds and awareness for Candeo's mission, for the past seven years are a 6-1 in the event.
Candeo is a community-based non-profit organization in Central Iowa that serves individuals with intellectual disabilities, traumatic brain injury and/or chronic mental illness.