Rebecca Lobo, Basketball Player, - Biography,
USA Basketball player.
Height
6 ft 4
Weight 185 Pounds when in WNBA
born October 6, 1973 in Hartford, Connecticut
A
pic of her
Rebecca Rose Lobo is a television basketball analyst & 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.
Lobo attended the University of Connecticut & helped
lead the Huskies to the 1995 National Championship with an undefeated 35-0 record.
In her senior year, she won the 1995 Naismith & College Player of the Year awards.
Rebecca
Lobo was born in Southwick, Massachusetts. She holds the state scoring record
with 2,710 points in her high school career in Southwick.
After college, Lobo
joined the WNBA for its inaugural season. Lobo was assigned to the New York Liberty
during the WNBA's first player allocations on January 22, 1997. She spent the
first five years of her career with New York. 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.
Today,
Lobo is seen as a color analyst for NBA-TV with a focus on WNBA games. She also
announces & commentates women's & men's college basketball games, primarily
for her alma mater, the University of Connecticut.
She is married to Sports
Illustrated writer Steve Rushin. On December 25, 2004 Rushin & Lobo had their
first child, a baby daughter named Siobhan Rose Rushin. Their second daughter,
Maeve Elizabeth Rushin, was born on August 10, 2006.
In 1996, Lobo & her
mother, RuthAnn Lobo, collaborated on a book entitled The Home Team, 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 & education.
A street named "Rebecca Lobo Way"
in Southwick, Massachusetts, where she attended high school, was named after her.
This site was written in February 2007
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