WSU’s Chanelle Molina to Represent Team USA at the FISU America Games
The rising-junior from Kailua
Kona, Hawaii will lead the USA in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
(Slightly edited story from WSU Sports Info
7/18/2018.)
PULLMAN, Wash. – One of the top point guards in the Pac-12, Washington
State women’s basketball rising-junior Chanelle Molina will take her talents to
the international stage as part of Team USA at the first upcoming FISU America
Games.
The inaugural FISU America Games are a multi-sport event sanctioned by
the International University Sports Federation which will be held in São Paulo,
Brazil, July 20-29.
In total, the U.S. will be sending 96 student-athletes and a total
delegation of 138 Americans that will represent men’s and women’s track and
field, men’s and women’s basketball, men’s soccer, judo, and men’s and women’s
volleyball.
Molina, an All-Pac-12 Freshman selection in 2016-17 and the Cougars’
third-leading scorer as a sophomore, joins an elite roster of collegiate
players from around the country including teaming up with Pac-12 standouts Kat
Tudor (Oregon State) and Kiara Russell (Arizona State). The 10-woman roster
will be coached by Jane Albright who recently retired from coaching at Nevada
after an illustrious 33-year career.
Throughout the week of games the USA will take on international squads
from Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, and Mexico. Team USA opens its tournament against
Mexico on July 24 before taking on the other three South American nations. The
winner will be determined by the best overall record from the week of games.
Last season, Molina returned from a devastating knee-injury to play in
all 30 games for the Cougars. She averaged 7.7 points per game while posting a
team-best 87 assists.
All four games for Team USA will be streamed live online on Facebook “courtesy
of CBDU.brasil”
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Spokane chosen
as regional site for 2021, 2022 Women’s NCAA Tournament
Wed., July 18,
2018, 3:49 p.m. Spokane S-R
Spokane’s
Veterans Memorial Arena will be a host site for NCAA women’s basketball
regionals in 2021 and 2022.
The NCAA
announced regional sites for both years on Wednesday.
Other hosts for
2021 are Times Union Center in Albany, New York, H-E-B Center in Cedar Park,
Texas, near Austin, and Cintas Center in Cincinnati. Games will be March 26-29.
Albany also
will serve as a regional host site in 2019. It previously hosted in 2015 and
2018. Austin has hosted an NCAA championship-record 18 regional games at Frank
Erwin Center. It will move to the newer H-E-B Center in 2021. In 2022, Spokane
will host along with Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport, Connecticut; Greensboro
Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina; and Intrust Bank Arena in Wichita,
Kansas. Those games will be played March 25-28.
Spokane was host
of a women’s regional round in March 2018, which was won by Notre Dame.
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10 Years: WSU’s
Global Animal Health pursues ‘One World. One Health.’
July
18, 2018 WSU Insider
By
Marcia Hill Gossard, WSU College of Veterinary Medicine
When
people have adequate sanitation and clean water, and the animals they raise for
food are free from disease, those people not only are healthier, but they have
improved opportunities in life through higher income, better education and
overall well-being. That is One Health.
For
the last 10 years, the Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health has been
committed to doing just that by helping to create healthier communities. Here
is a quick snapshot of a few life-changing advancements that scientists with
WSU have helped to bring to areas like Tanzania and Kenya.
Our
scientists have seen that by vaccinating cattle for East Coast Fever, a young
girl in rural Africa can attend school because her family has milk to sell from
a healthy cow, which leaves an intergenerational impact on the community. Or an
entire family is spared hunger and economic hardship because vaccinations for
Newcastle disease prevent the decimation of a community’s chickens.
Improved
health practices including the pasteurization of milk, prevents bacterial
infections such as E. coli, Salmonella or Campylobacter and reduces the number
of illnesses that ultimately would need to be treated with antibiotics. By
discovering the causes for increases in antibiotic use, our scientists have
helped implement ways to reduce infection and the spread of resistant bacteria
in poor communities worldwide, which not only protects those communities but
helps preserve effective antibiotics here around the world and here at home.
Healthy Children
At
the Coast General Hospital in Mombasa, Kenya, pregnant women sit in the waiting
room to see a doctor for a monthly prenatal wellness check. Allen School
medical epidemiologist Dr. Eric Osoro also waits to ask the women if they would
agree to participate in a study to test for the Zika virus.
Transmitted
by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, the Zika virus causes microcephaly, a birth
defect in children where the head is smaller than other children of the same
age. In Kenya, Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are prevalent in coastal regions and
spread dengue fever, a disease that is related to the Zika virus.
Once
they agree to participate, the women fill out a questionnaire and give a blood
sample to test for the virus. Osoro and his team will do monthly follow ups
with the women. “After the baby is born we will follow up with the infants to
assess for growth and neurodevelopment,” says Osoro.
What
the researchers learn will not only be used to help prevent Zika in Kenya, but
also assist health workers to counsel patients about the risks of the virus and
provide health care facilities with information to offer the most effective
services to children with microcephaly.
Healthy families
A
Maasai woman in northern Tanzania collects cow’s milk for her family in a gourd
called a calabash. Milk is a staple in the diet of the Maasai and can make up
about half of their daily calories. After finding antibiotic resistant E. coli
bacteria in their milk, anthropologist Mark Caudell teamed with students in the
WSU Center of Entrepreneurial Studies to develop a basic thermometer that could
be placed in a pot of milk over a fire. When the milk is hot enough to kill any
bacteria, the end of the thermometer lights up green. Before the thermometers,
it was impossible for the Maasai women to know how hot they needed to warm the
milk to kill bacteria.
“We found that mothers trained to pasteurize
their milk using our thermometers heat-treated milk more often and drank milk
with less bacteria,” says Caudell. “We are now working with engineers at WSU on
a redesign that will allow multiyear use.”
Caudell
and his team plan to return to Tanzania this summer and find the most effective
ways to distribute the thermometers in these hard-to-reach, rural communities.
“We want to empower Maasai women within these communities to teach other
community members about the importance of milk hygiene and pasteurization,”
says Caudell.
Healthy Communities
As
Kenya’s climate has become drier with more frequent droughts, raising camels is
increasingly common for pastoral households that traditionally may have only
kept cattle or goats as livestock. Dr. Kariuki Njenga, a virologist with the
Allen School, and his team are researching brucellosis, an infectious disease
caused by the bacteria Brucella. Brucellosis affects many animal species, but
because of a camel’s lifespan, they can harbor and spread the disease for
years.
“While
a family may expect to have a cow for about four years, and a goat for about
two years, camels can live 25 years or more,” says Njenga. “That means camels
could infect three generations of cows.”
Brucellosis
is a bacterial zoonotic infection that is often transmitted to humans from
unpasteurized milk. While rarely fatal, the disease can have long-term effects
such as recurrent fevers, arthritis, swelling of the heart, and chronic
fatigue. Animals infected with the disease produce less milk, abort, can become
infertile, and are a risk to other animals in the herd.
Although
specific bacteria species generally infect cattle, sheep, goats, or camels,
some Brucella species can cross animal species. And there is very little
information on the Brucella species in camels. So back in Pullman, Dr. Tim
Baszler and a team of scientists in the Washington Animal Disease Diagnostic
Laboratory are working with the WSU team in Kenya using genetic analysis to
identify different species of Brucella to determine the dominant strains of the
bacteria. This will help Allen School scientists better understand how the
bacteria transmits from animals to humans, and to develop ways to control the
spread of the bacteria.
Because antibiotics
are the treatment for brucellosis, knowing how to best prevent the spread of
the disease will reduce antibiotic use and decrease the risk of developing new
strains of resistant bacteria that can spread globally.
