During a game of softball, Teresa Fetterman, 7, laughs and jokes with the University of Nebraska Softball Team as she makes it to first base at the Walk Now for Autism Speaks event at Haymarket Park on Sunday, October 9, 2011. More than 1,000 people and 30 sponsors joined in, creating awareness about autism.

Teresa Fetterman, 7, was playing softball with her brother, Matthew, 5, and her friends, Jerome Linscomb, 6, and Joseph Linscomb, 10. Fetterman and her family came to the Walk Now for Autism Speaks to support Joseph.

Jerrad Maier, 6, waits at second base with Jordan Bettiol, freshman on the University of Nebraska Softball Team at the Walk Now for Autism Speaks event. Tricia Nelson, Walk Manager for Nebraska, said 1 in 110 children is diagnosed with autism, and this event as a way to show respect and awareness.

Batters-up! Teresa Fetterman, 7, swings and hits the softball at the Walk Now for Autism Speaks event.

Teresa Fetterman, 7, gives the coach of the University of Nebraska a high-five after making it to first base.

Megan Southworth, a junior on the University of Nebraska Softball Team, stares down 5-year-old Matthew Fetterman while he waits at first base.

Teresa Fetterman, 7, runs across home plate to score for her team.

Before the walk started, people could visit booths, such as a balloon animal booth or face painting. Many children played softball and baseball with athletes from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Storm Troopers from Star Wars attended the Walk Now for Autism Speaks event and posed with children and their parents. Others where there too, including Spongebob and a Mr. Goodcents sandwich.

The governor of Nebraska, Dave Heineman, shakes hands with Jacob Depenbusch as he talks to him and his wife, Vicki.

Last year at a Nebraska School Counsel Assocation, Vicki Depenbusch heard Dave Heineman say he would come to a parent-teacher conference if he was invited. Vicki contacted him about coming to her son's conference to see what a parent-teacher conference looked like for students with special needs. He attened the conference, and since then Jacob and Heineman have participated in multiple events together. "Every time the governor comes he learns more about autism, and my son gets bragging rights si

Before the walk around Haymarket Park, Vicki Depenbusch, Mary Cox, Jacob Depenbusch, John Depenbusch and the governor of Nebraska, Dave Heineman, talked about autism awareness. Heineman gave Jacob a card and gift for his birthday, which was Oct. 9, 2011, the same day as the event.

Team Camo Angel walks at the Walk Now for Autism Speaks event to support Joseph Linscomb, 10. Many teams came out to support people in the community, and they showed their support with signs and t-shirts with team names.

Maddison Linscomb sings a song at the Walk Now for Autism Speaks that she wrote in honor of her little brother, Joseph, who has autism. She wrote the song a few weeks before the event about the "camouflage angel," and the song includes the lyrics, "Little Brother, I love you."

Walk Now for Autism Speaks brought more than 1,000 people out to support autism awareness. This was the fifth year the walk has taken place in Lincoln.