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Miami Herald
10-04-2025
- Sport
- Miami Herald
Southridge's Doctor, Country Day's Swaby are Dade Girls' Basketball Coaches of the Year
Miami Country Day's Ochiel Swaby officially ran out of fingers with which to wear the state championship rings he's won while coaching the Spartans. Swaby led Country Day to its 10th state championship in the past 12 seasons as one of the most impressive title runs in Miami-Dade County history continued. At Southridge, Stephasia Doctor guided her team to the Class 6A state final with fewer players on their roster than Country Day's total of state title rings. As such, Swaby and Doctor are the Miami Herald's Miami-Dade County Girls' Basketball Coaches of the Year. Swaby once again earns this honor for Classes 4A-1A in a season in which Country Day was pushed to the limit seemingly even more than usual. Country Day survived the Class 2A state semifinals with a two-point victory over Fort Myers Evangelical Christian and then outlasted Jacksonville Providence 47-37 in the finals for the two of their closest victories ever at the state final four. The result was their third consecutive state championship. 'I love it, I love it, I love it,' Miami Country Day coach Ochiel Swaby said after the state final. 'The way we played in the semis, we didn't look good. We had no real momentum and no confidence to carry us through the game. But what I saw (Saturday) from the kids was them go on the hunt for once.' Southridge had no choice but to be in 'hunter' mode throughout most of the 2024-25 season. With a roster of only seven players, affectionately dubbed 'The Magnificent Seven' by their fans, Southridge made an improbable run to the state finals, which included victories on the road against four-time defending state champion St. Thomas Aquinas and Broward County powerhouse Nova. Doctor was at the forefront of a collective coaching effort which propelled Southridge to its first appearance at the state final four since 1987 and second in program history. Southridge nearly secured its first state title before falling in the final, 43-41, to Valrico Bloomingdale. 'These girls are very deserving and I'm very, very proud of them,' Doctor said after the state final. 'We went through a lot this season and they got here. These girls have bright futures ahead of them and I'm so proud of them.'
BBC News
18-02-2025
- Health
- BBC News
At-home type 1 diabetes testing for children probed in UK study
A home test to diagnose type 1 diabetes in children is being investigated in a UK study for the first time. Researchers at the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Oxford Biomedical Research Centre said the study will invite 90 children and young people across two groups to assess the GTT@home test. The programme would determine whether the kit could be used routinely across the lead Rabbi Swaby, clinical research fellow in the Nuffield Department of Medicine, said the method "could be a major breakthrough for reducing the burden of testing." GTT@home is an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) that uses finger-prick blood samples to measure how well the body processes kit contains the test device, a finger prick, a preformulated glucose drink and detailed instructions. The glucose drink is consumed after the initial finger-prick blood sample, with a second blood sample taken two hours later. The test has been developed by British digital clinical diagnostics and diabetes home testing provider, researchers said that with standard hospital-based OGTTs, children have to fast overnight, travel to a clinic early in the morning and undergo two blood the home device "immediately analyses both blood samples and shares accurate and timely results directly with the study teams." The team said it had been shown to be "as accurate as hospital-based OGTTs when used with adults."The test has already been successfully implemented at NHS trusts in Southeast England for the screening of gestational diabetes in pregnancy, with more than 2,500 women screened since its launch in February 2024. Type 1 diabetes is the most common childhood autoimmune disease, affecting around one in 350 children. Researchers said that in around 40% of children diagnosis was not made until the child was in diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), a life-threatening complication. Dr Swaby said that even though early diagnosis of type 1 diabetes relies on OGTTs, "we know these tests are not well tolerated, especially by very young children."At-home testing could be a major breakthrough for reducing the burden of testing." You can follow BBC Oxfordshire on Facebook, X (Twitter), or Instagram.
Yahoo
30-01-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Palace sign Jamaica defender Swaby from AC Milan
Crystal Palace have signed Jamaica defender Allyson Swaby from Italian side AC Milan for an undisclosed fee. Swaby, 28, has played top-flight football in the United States and Italy and has committed to a two-and-a-half-year deal with Palace. She is the third permanent signing of the January window for Palace, following the arrivals of Canada forward Clarissa Larisey and Finland midfielder Ria Oling. Swaby's sister, Chantelle, plays as a midfielder for fellow Women's Super League side Leicester City. Laura Kaminski, the Palace manager, described the new recruit as an "excellent" signing who would provide "experience, leadership and real defensive quality". The Eagles, who were promoted as winners of the Championship last season, are bottom of the WSL and four points adrift of safety. Kaminski added of Swaby, who has featured for her country at two World Cups: "She's played at the highest level in both club and international football, and we're excited to see the impact she'll have here at Palace." Get the latest WSL news on our dedicated page
