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Rochester might be a small-market team for the National Lacrosse League, but when it comes to smarts, it’s in the big leagues.

And that’s with no small help from Danielle, the Knightingale named NLL Girl of the Week this week. Danielle, ya see, is not just a dancer. So it goes beyond the fact that she’s a fifth-year member of the squad, showing her dedication to stick with something good when she finds it. She admits she didn’t know anything about lacrosse when she moved to Rochester from the Bronx, but she now counts herself among the diehard fans. So what is it that makes her the smart one of the bunch? Well, pursuit of a PhD in Immunology at the University of Rochester is a good starting point and ending point. How you gonna argue with that?

While most of us are trying to figure out how to open the child-proof cap on a bottle of aspirin, Danielle’s at UR doing research with the ultimate goal of being a Bio Medical researcher. Not bad, eh?

On her NLL profile page, she admits to abstract thoughts in her head, which may explain goalie Pat O’Toole being her favorite NLL player because, as we well know, there’s got to be something abstract going on in the head of any fella who jumps between the pipes to make saves. So that’s gotta explain the connection there, right? Whatever the connection, don’t let it intimidate you.

As much as she enjoys the challenge of the abstract world and doing the kind of work that, you know, saves lives, she lets us know on her Knightingale page that she’s not above finding some mindless laughs while watching re-runs of The Cosby Show. And that brings up a fantastic debate. After all these years since the show’s end, what still makes us laugh the most? Bill Cosby’s sweaters or Theo Huxtable’s homemade shirt?

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