Rebecca Lobo
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Rebecca Rose Lobo (born October 6, 1973 in Southwick, Massachusetts) is an American television basketball analyst and a former player in the professional Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) from 1997 to 2003. Lobo, at 6' 4", played the center position for much of her career.
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[edit] Career
[edit] High school
Rebecca Lobo holds the state scoring record with 2,710 points in her high school career in Southwick-Tolland Regional High School in Massachusetts.
[edit] College
Lobo attended the University of Connecticut and helped lead the Huskies to the 1995 National Championship with an undefeated 35-0 record. In her senior year, she won the 1995 Naismith and College Player of the Year award.
[edit] Professional
After college, Lobo joined the WNBA for its inaugural season. Lobo was assigned to the New York Liberty during the league's first player allocations on January 22, 1997. She spent the first five years of her career with New York. However, in the first game of the 1999 season, she grabbed a rebound and as she landed she tore the anterior cruciate ligament in a nasty injury to her left knee where her entire lower leg bent inwards at a 50 degree angle and never fully recovered.
Lobo was traded to the Houston Comets in exchange for their second-round selection (26th overall) in the 2002 WNBA Draft. After playing the 2003 WNBA season with the Connecticut Sun, she retired.
[edit] Sports announcing
Today, Lobo is seen as a reporter and color analyst for ESPN with a focus on women's college basketball and WNBA games.
[edit] Family
Lobo is the youngest daughter of Dennis and RuthAnn Lobo. Her father is half Cuban and half Polish. Her mother is of German and Irish heritage.[1] [2] Her brother Jason played basketball at Dartmouth College. Her sister Rachel played basketball at Salem State College.
She is married to former Sports Illustrated writer Steve Rushin. On December 25, 2004 Rushin and Lobo had their first daughter named Siobhan Rose Rushin. Their second daughter, Maeve Elizabeth Rushin, was born on August 10, 2006. She is now pregnant with their third child.
[edit] Breast cancer advocate
In 1996, Lobo and her mother, RuthAnn Lobo, collaborated on a book entitled The Home Team [1], which dealt with RuthAnn's battle with breast cancer.
Rebecca was the 1996 spokesperson for the Lee National Denim Day fund raiser which raises millions of dollars for breast cancer research and education.
[edit] Trivia
- A street named "Rebecca Lobo Way" in Southwick, Massachusetts, where she attended high school, was named after her.
- Represented the US Women's basketball team in the "Banging Hard in the School Yard" episode of Martin. Lobo was the tallest member of the team. She is mentioned in the second season of the comedy show The Upright Citizens Brigade, in the episode "Spaghetti Jesus". In the sketch, a character who tries out for the WNBA says that "Rebecca Lobo held me down with one hand and called me a bitch."
- She was the speaker at the class of 2008 commencement of the University of Connecticut's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.[3]
[edit] Notes
[edit] References
- Rebecca Lobo. Hispanic Heritage: Biographies. Thomson Gale. Retrieved on 2007-04-24.
- Vital Stats. RebeccaLobo.com. WNBA. Retrieved on 2007-04-24.
[edit] External links
| Preceded by Lisa Leslie |
Naismith College Player of the Year (women's) 1995 |
Succeeded by Saudia Roundtree |
| Preceded by Carol Ann Shudlick |
Wade Trophy winner 1995 |
Succeeded by Jennifer Rizzotti |
| Preceded by None |
NCAA Woman of the Year Award 1995 |
Succeeded by Billie Winsett-Fletcher |
