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St. Paul s (Md.) Wins IAAM-A Title, Moves to No. 4 in Nike / USA Lacrosse HS Girls National Top 25
Tue May 18 2021 | Laurel Pfahler | High School
Top-seeded St. Paul’s scored 10 of the game’s final 11 goals to pull away for a 17-8 win over second-seeded McDonogh in the IAAM-A Conference championship game on Saturday, giving the Gators their first title since 2006.
Caitlin McElwee led with four goals and one assist, and Kendall Steer, Christina Gagnon and Josie Hahn all had three goals apiece. Steer, Gagnon and Natalie Shurtleff contributed two assists apiece. Leah Warehime made nine saves, including some huge early saves on a pair of free-position shots.
Junior Peyton Wainman and freshman Brooke Goldstein each had three goals to lead the American Heritage-Delray girls lacrosse team to its second state championship in school history.
In a concrete hangar in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico,
Katrina Mayes is working with precision and purpose. Wisps of smoke surround her, wafting off the dry ice she is using to jerry-rig a cardboard vaccine carrier. Her task: to create a vapor phase vent to moderate the temperature of the cooling container from around minus 80 degrees Celsius (for storing Pfizer’s COVID-19 vials) to minus 15 degrees Celsius (to accommodate supplies of the Moderna vaccine).
At 29, the biochemist and virologist has spent much of her professional life indoors, where the U.S. government has entrusted her to handle some of the world’s most lethal pathogens including Ebola, Lassa fever, and Nipah viruses at top-secret Biosafety Level Four facilities. “I shower six times a day,” she tells me. “I’m the cleanest person you’ll ever meet.” Her winning smile and gallows humor mask the gravity of her work, which has involved diffusing poison-laced letters that have been mailed to federal buildings.