They wanted to honor her because she "touched their hearts so much."

This past weekend, a Denver high school football team decided to give a special 3-year-old a night to remember by making her their Homecoming Queen.
Avelynn was born with severe heart complications and has already undergone multiple open heart surgeries. And even though doctors didn't expect "Avi" to live past six weeks, she just celebrated her 3rd birthday.
She's also making a big impact on those around her. For a community service project this summer, players from Manual High School's football team came to her house to put grass in her backyard so she could play outside. And the teammates were instantly smitten.
"When we saw that little girl walk out onto her new lawn it touched my heart so much," senior running back Losseny Kone told news station KDVR. "I wanted to cry."
The team's defensive coordinator, Benjamin Butler, says the guys were so deeply impacted that months later, they wanted to do more for her — so they invited her to the October 9 game and gave her their crown. "There is something special about high school and a high school football game on a Friday night, and meeting little Avi, we wanted to make sure we could share that experience with her," Butler told KDVR.
And the team — and their entire school — couldn't have been more thrilled to share their big night with the little girl. "To see this girl walk out and be crowned queen [is] something she probably won't experience ever so it really means a lot to us," Kone said. "Our coach always has a saying: Choose life. That little girl chose life. She chose to move on."