Kaiser

Duke senior Kate Kaiser, a three-time All-America lacrosse player and Lacrosse Magazine's Preseason Player of the Year, will miss the entire 2002 season after tearing her right anterior cruciate ligament on the first day of practice. The Notre Dame Prep graduate will be redshirted this season and plans to return to the lineup next year. She plans to have surgery to repair the ligament within two weeks. "Obviously, we are devastated for Kate, but she has handled all of this incredibly well," said Duke coach Kerstin Kimel.

There is no substitute for experience, and no one knows that better than Wilde Lake pitcher Kristy Kaiser. After two seasons with the junior varsity, the Wilde Lake junior became the starter this season, replacing graduated All-County performer Jen Babish. "It's a lot of pressure," Kaiser said. "They're a lot better in varsity, so it gets a little bit nerve wracking." Kaiser faced defending county champion Atholton yesterday, and the sixth-ranked Raiders made it look easy in a 6-0 victory at Atholton.

"Are you the volleyball coach?" asked the tall, blond girl, peeking through the classroom doorway of Severna Park coach Tim Dunbar the day before the first day of school."Yes," said Dunbar."Well," the girl began, "I'm April Kaiser, and I'd like to play.""Well, I've already made final cuts, and you need a physical and.Before he could finish his sentence, Kaiser, a 5-foot-9 senior, reached into her pocket and pulled out a completed physical."But Ialso need a parent permission slip," Dunbar retorted.

Kate Kaiser remembers the moment vividly. Rolling around the crease. Reaching to catch a wide pass. Planting her right foot. Feeling her knee hyperextend. "I thought it was like when you roll your ankle and you need to walk it off," said the Duke All-America midfielder, who moved on to the next drill that first day of women's lacrosse preseason in January 2002. "We started working on positioning and when I shuffled laterally, my knee buckled. I thought, `That can't be good.' " The Blue Devils' trainer asked whether her leg felt like a "wobbly kitchen table leg."

In Loyola's first game this season, junior Kevin Kaiser was the Dons' second-string tight end.In today's 72nd annual Thanksgiving Day meeting against Calvert Hall at 10 a.m. at Memorial Stadium, Kaiser will be Loyola's starting quarterback.Kaiser was thrust into the starting lineup two weeks ago when second-string quarterback John Baer injured his knee in a 14-11 loss to top-ranked City.Baer was playing his fifth game in place of three-year starter Bill Evans, who fractured his right wrist in October.

The Kaiser Permanente Health Plan admitted yesterday that it had inadvertently e-mailed to 19 of its patients health information about 858 other patients, including 94 in Maryland. "There was a glitch" when new software was installed Aug. 2 to speed up e-mail responses to patients, according to Beverly Hayon, director of national media relations for the HMO, which has headquarters in Oakland, Calif. The information sent out by mistake was of varying levels of sensitivity, Hayon said. It ranged from a simple note saying the member would be sent a password for the online system to "answers to medical questions about a particular disease or condition," she said.

Kaiser Permanente of the Mid-Atlantic emerged as the big winner in the state's eighth annual HMO report card released yesterday, garnering more than twice as many top scores as any other HMO. "Kaiser clearly broke away from the crowd this year," said Barbara G. McLean, executive director of the Maryland Health Care Commission, departing from the past practice of publishing without comment the data gathered from medical records and patient surveys....

Kaiser Permanente of the Mid-Atlantic States, the lone insurer remaining in Maryland to provide Medicare HMO coverage next year, announced yesterday that it will severely restrict new enrollment and change the terms of its plans. Kaiser will continue to offer coverage to its 14,000 current Medicare HMO members in Maryland. But new members can join only during November, Medicare's open-enrollment month, or within three months of their 65th birthday. Previously, seniors were able to enroll any time.

An article in yesterday's editions of The Sun stated that Marine Staff Sgt. Miles N. Kaiser received a military medal at Mercy Medical Center. Kaiser is in the Stella Maris Hospice Care Program, which leases space in the Mercy Medical Center complex.The Sun regrets the errors.Eleven years after he was wounded in a clash with Salvadoran guerrillas, Marine Staff Sgt. Miles N. Kaiser yesterday received the Purple Heart his government finally says he deserves as he lay in his bed at Mercy Medical Center dying of AIDS.

You'd have to say John R. Kaiser Jr. knows his way around a boat.During his 30 years, the Annapolis resident has watched his father custom-build yachts, learned the craft himself, sold and refurbished vessels, run charters in the Florida Keys and sailed alone from Annapolis to Maine.Now he's capturing boats on Super VHS and Beta SP videotape.Last summer, Kaiser left his job as a yacht broker to navigate an uncharted course in the marine industry. With sales of new, large boats hurting from the recession and federal luxury tax, Kaiser believed he'd found an innovative way to show buyers stocks of lower-priced, usedboats.