WillowWood Rebrand by DD.NYC Wins Gold Anthem Award for Product and Innovation in 2024 RebrandANDOVER, Mass. , Nov. 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- TransMedics Group, Inc. ("TransMedics") (Nasdaq: TMDX), a medical technology company that is transforming organ transplant therapy for patients with end-stage lung, heart, and liver failure, today announced that it will host an Investor & Analyst Day in New York City on Tuesday, December 10, 2024 , at 10:00 AM ET . Waleed Hassanein , MD., President and Chief Executive Officer, and members of the leadership team will present an overview of TransMedics' growth strategy, clinical pipeline, and operations. A live and archived webcast of presentations and Q&A sessions will be available on the "Investors" section of the TransMedics website at https://investors.transmedics.com . Please note management will only take questions from the live audience during the question-and-answer session following the formal presentations. In-person attendance at the event requires advanced registration. Please email Laine Morgan at laine@gilmartinir.com by December 4, 2024 , for further information. About TransMedics Group, Inc. TransMedics is the world's leader in portable extracorporeal warm perfusion and assessment of donor organs for transplantation. Headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts , the company was founded to address the unmet need for more and better organs for transplantation and has developed technologies to preserve organ quality, assess organ viability prior to transplant, and potentially increase the utilization of donor organs for the treatment of end-stage heart, lung, and liver failure. Investor Contact: Brian Johnston Laine Morgan 332-895-3222 Investors@transmedics.com View original content to download multimedia: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/transmedics-to-host-investor--analyst-day-on-december-10-2024-302316931.html SOURCE TransMedics Group, Inc.PHILIPPI, W.Va (WV News) — Philip Barbour’s MacKenna Halfin ended a storybook career of high school volleyball with a third Class AA state title in four years last week. She and the rest of the senior Colts made the state championship match in all four seasons. In the state tournament, MacKenna had 20 or more kills in all three matches, totaling 67 kills in 11 sets while also collecting 41 total digs. “I think that once that switch flipped, she just started swinging,” Philip Barbour coach Heather Halfin said. “The passes got better, but I honestly felt like she couldn’t be stopped.” Coach Halfin calls her one of the most dominant players she has coached. It’s a pretty tall order considering the program has now won seven state titles and has been to the state tournament for 23 consecutive seasons. “I think that she’s one of the best,” coach Halfin said. “I’ve seen some really good players come through my program and others that are incredibly solid players. When I evaluate a player, I try to look at the total player. It’s not just how hard they hit the ball or how well they serve or set. I try not to just pick one aspect. I try to look at everything, and MacKenna is truly a total player.” Her career closes with unreal stat totals — 2,058 kills, 1,590 digs, 357 blocks, 151 aces and over 1,233 serve receives. With MacKenna serving as a middle in her final three seasons, coach Halfin calls her stats the stuff of legend. “I would chance to say that there are only a few middle blockers in West Virginia that have hit 2,000 kills,” coach Halfin said. “McKenzie Carpenter did for me. If you find more, they are usually the players that coaches are still talking about — Aana Wherry from Parkersburg and Cameron Yoho from Tyler Consolidated are two I can think of. To get to that number as a middle is unheard of. Those players are legends.” Her reasoning is due to MacKenna playing an unconventional position for a team’s strongest hitter. More often than not, that player plays on the outside and receives the more optimal set. “If you go to a hitting camp, you’ll have 75 out of 100 kids playing outside hitter,” coach Halfin said. “Because that push outside is an easier ball to adjust to, she has learned to adjust to sets coming from different areas of the floor.” Instead, MacKenna, as a middle blocker, is a centerpiece of the defense while also being a player that can read the floor from multiple angles and send the ball in either direction. “She can pound the ball from everywhere and cut the ball like no one I’ve ever seen,” coach Halfin said. “That’s something that her national and other travel coaches have pointed out about her — Anyone can be a good hitter with a good setter, but she adjusts so well to anything she is given. “That’s not an indictment of our setters, though,” coach Halfin continued. “They are trying to force the ball to her in the middle. If you watch high-level volleyball, you know that the ball is set to the outside more often than not. It’s the easiest set.” It shows that her game has plenty of potential as she will play volleyball collegiately next fall. “I’m confident that if she was an outside hitter, she could’ve had 3,000 kills,” coach Halfin said. “I think it makes her a more versatile player because she is able to get to any ball and kill it. I’ve seen her get a ball from everywhere on the court.” But while MacKenna will hit a ball with the force that makes players scatter, her defensive prowess sets her apart. “She struggled a little bit in the beginning of the championship game, but her back-row play has gotten really good,” coach Halfin said. “We’ll watch college games, and she can tell you exactly where the ball is going to be hit. She reads the court so well, and that makes a good player. She can read every spot.” Coach Halfin is quick to point out just how impressive 1,000 digs can be for any player, but she then points to how it is especially impressive for hitters to reach that mark. “Back row is out of your control,” coach Halfin said. “You are adjusting to where the other team is placing the ball. Any time that someone digs the ball 1,000 times, you have kept someone from a point 1,000 times. It’s impressive.” MacKenna, a middle blocker, had over 1,500. “Having 1,000 good digs is insane when it’s not your only job,” coach Halfin said. “It’s impressive when a libero or defensive specialist does it, but when you wear multiple hats, it becomes super. Any front row player getting that is impressive.” With the end of MacKenna’s career comes the end of coach Halfin’s time coaching her daughter. She calls her a true competitor and looks forward to watching her continue to grow. “She’s been listening to me gripe as a coach since she started going on trips with me,” coach Halfin said. “I remember her being in an infant seat and coming along. I don’t really think there was a turning point for her competitiveness until she was a freshman.” Coach Halfin points back to a team camp in the summer before MacKenna’s freshman season. “She had let a ball drop to the floor,” coach Halfin said. “She didn’t play it because someone called it out, which I didn’t know. I jumped all over her, ‘We don’t let a ball drop. You should know that.’ Of course, you’re always harder on your kids.” “She looked at me and was tearing up,” coach Halfin said. “So I took her out until she was okay. After the game, I remember looking at her and telling her that when she’s on the court, I am no longer her mother. I am coach. I told her to let me coach her.” “Alyssa Hill was a senior that year, and she just goes, ‘Listen MacKenna, your mom has made all of us cry at some point,’” coach Halfin said. “And I was like, no way. And then Emily (Denison) raises her hand and says, ‘Raise your hand if Halfin has made you cry,’ and they all did. After that, she realized not to take coaching personally.” Four years later, MacKenna will be remembered as one of the best to ever do it. “I would say that it’s hard to be her because she’s my kid,” coach Halfin said. “I have big shoulders, so people can say what they want to. She’s earned every second she was on the floor. There was never a question. She has also shared me as a mom since she has been alive, so that is hard, too. Once she got used to it, it all worked out.”Top Amazon Offers on Premium Smartwatches with 90% Discount
Varo Bank Introduces Zero Fee Cash Deposits at Participating CVS LocationsLet's face it, nothing important happens in December. I'm scheduling 24 advent calendar posts this week and then spending the rest of the year eating boxes of Cadbury Mini Yule Logs Triple Chocolate. So it's no surprise that Devolver have announced their remaining slate of games aiming for release in 2024 are actually coming out in 2025. The games that slipped are Baby Steps , Skate Story , and Stick It To The Stickman. Devolver released the news with typical style, via the 15th annual Devolver Delayed awards, which you can watch below. I enjoyed the in memoriam section for games that released this year which can therefore no longer be delayed, all of which are currently available at a discount via Devolver's autumn sale on Steam . Baby Steps is the pick of the Delayed Three that I'm most looking forward to. It's a literal walking simulator from Bennett Foddy and the makers of Ape Out in which you pilot limbs individually to steer your pyjama-clad protagonist up a mountain, like a marriage between QWOP , Getting Over It , and whichever third-person game with a mountain you care to choose from. Skyrim? Jusant? I bet God Of War's got a mud-soaked hill in it somewhere. Skate Story is Tony Hawk's Pro Skater if Tony Hawk was a demon made out of glass. Stick It To The Stickman is that Flash animation you watched 20 years ago but with a physics simulation and made by the Broforce developers. I want to play both of these games, too. Check out the graphic design on these bad boys. The blurriness on the image of the mini roll isn't my camera, that's actually how it looks on the box.William M . Coli: Reality check
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TAMPA, Fla. — Baker Mayfield rubbed both arms with his hands as the story was being related, the one where his timely donation turned around the fortunes of a high school football team that lacked the necessary equipment to start the season. It’s the nearly made-for-Hollywood script of how Space Coast High in Cocoa went from 1-8 a year ago to 10-3 and the first state championship in program history. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings.
Iowa cornerback Jermari Harris has opted out of the remainder of the 2024 season in order to prepare for the NFL draft, according to a report by 247Sports.com . The 6-foot-1 sixth-year senior from Chicago has recorded 27 tackles, three interceptions and a team-high seven pass breakups in 10 games for the Hawkeyes this season. That includes a pick-6 in a 38-21 win over Troy earlier this season. Iowa (6-4, 4-3 Big Ten) plays at Maryland on Saturday before closing out its regular season at home against Nebraska on Nov. 29. The Hawkeyes are already bowl eligible, so Harris is likely opting out of three games in total. After missing the entire 2022 season due to an ankle injury, Harris was suspended for two games of the following season for his involvement in the gambling investigation into Iowa athletics. He later emerged as the Hawkeyes' top cornerback, earning the team's comeback player of the year award after compiling 42 tackles, one interception and eight pass breakups. Harris will finish his college career with 105 tackles and eight interceptions. --Field Level MediaNone