In this episode Sean spoke to Katie Flight, who's been playing for GB since she was 12 and works in a team at Imperial College that's working on a new coronavirus vaccine. They talked about vaccines, working under intense spotlight and pressure and also about the pandemic as a professional learning experience given the usual focus on science and academia. Then they moved on to frisbee, talking about playing for GB at a young age, getting back to playing soon and what else Katie has been doing to get that competitive spirit going. RUNDOWN How has the pandemic been personally? (2:10) How about professionally? (6:50) How has it been working in such a high-pressured environment with so much riding on your work? (9:26) What stage is your work at? (11:47) What's your sense of how the vaccine rollout is going? (13:40) You must have had plenty of people asking your questions given your expertise, how has that been? (15:19) What do you think this might all mean for frisbee this summer? (18:47) What kind of things have you been doing without frisbee? (20:57) What does this break mean for World Games and other things coming in the next few years? (25:09) When and how did you start playing? Features how Katie's mom Ruth became the GB Junior Programme Manager (26:22) What was the experience at Strathclyde like, when the team was so successful? And then how was it moving to Imperial? (29:35) You've played mainly mixed in club - why is that? (33:18) BEST LINE: Katie picks a mixed line with heavy Scottish influence (37:37) What was it like moving from Scotland down to London? Features some insight on Australian national team training (42:58)

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