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Kristin Just Folkl (born December 19 1975) is a former collegiate and professional women's basketball
Women's basketball

Women's basketball is one of the few games which developed in tandem with its men's counterpart. It became popular, spreading from the east coast of the United States to the west coast, in large part via women's colleges....
 player. She now goes by her married name of Kristin Folkl-Kaburakis.

played basketball
Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a basketball through a 10 feet  high hoop under organized rules....
 and volleyball
Volleyball

Volleyball is an Olympic Games team sport in which two teams of 6 active players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules....
 at St. Joseph's Academy
St. Joseph's Academy (St. Louis, Missouri)

St. Joseph's Academy is a private school, all-girls, Roman Catholic, college preparatory high school in Frontenac, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri....
 in her hometown of St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis is an independent city in the U.S. state of Missouri, located near the confluence of the Mississippi River and the Missouri River. St....
, leading both of her sports teams to state championships each year in which she played.

In 1994, Folkl attended Stanford University
Stanford University

Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private university research university located in Stanford, California, California, United States....
 and starred on their women's basketball and volleyball programs.

While at Stanford, she was a four-time volleyball All-American, a basketball all-American as a senior, and a two-sport academic all-American.






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Kristin Just Folkl (born December 19 1975) is a former collegiate and professional women's basketball
Women's basketball

Women's basketball is one of the few games which developed in tandem with its men's counterpart. It became popular, spreading from the east coast of the United States to the west coast, in large part via women's colleges....
 player. She now goes by her married name of Kristin Folkl-Kaburakis.

Early years and Stanford University

She played basketball
Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a basketball through a 10 feet  high hoop under organized rules....
 and volleyball
Volleyball

Volleyball is an Olympic Games team sport in which two teams of 6 active players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules....
 at St. Joseph's Academy
St. Joseph's Academy (St. Louis, Missouri)

St. Joseph's Academy is a private school, all-girls, Roman Catholic, college preparatory high school in Frontenac, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri....
 in her hometown of St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis is an independent city in the U.S. state of Missouri, located near the confluence of the Mississippi River and the Missouri River. St....
, leading both of her sports teams to state championships each year in which she played.

In 1994, Folkl attended Stanford University
Stanford University

Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private university research university located in Stanford, California, California, United States....
 and starred on their women's basketball and volleyball programs.

While at Stanford, she was a four-time volleyball All-American, a basketball all-American as a senior, and a two-sport academic all-American. She appeared in a total of six Final Four
Final four

Final four is a sports term that is commonly applied to the last four teams remaining in a playoff tournament, most notably college basketball. Typically it refers to a tournament format where four teams play two rounds of single-elimination games, resulting in a single champion....
s (four in volleyball and two in basketball) and won three national championships in volleyball. In her senior year, she was a first team All-American in both sports and was named the GTE
GTE

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 Academic Player of the Year. She was also a participant on the USA Women's National Volleyball Team, and was a first-alternate at the 1996 Summer Olympics
1996 Summer Olympics

The 1996 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and unofficially known as the Centennial Olympics, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States....
.

Folkl graduated from Stanford in 1998 with a degree in economics
Economics

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.

WNBA and overseas basketball career

She began her professional career with the Women's National Basketball Association
Women's National Basketball Association

The Women's National Basketball Association has 13 teams and is an organization governing a professional basketball league for women in the United States....
 (WNBA) playing for the Minnesota Lynx
Minnesota Lynx

The Minnesota Lynx are a Women's National Basketball Association team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota and play their home games at the Target Center....
 after the team drafted her during the 1999 WNBA Draft
1999 WNBA Draft

1999 in sports WNBA Draft - 6 April 1999*On September 15, 1998, two more players were assigned prior to the expansion draft.*On April 6, 1999 a WNBA expansion draft took place....
. She was traded to the Portland Fire
Portland Fire

The Portland Fire joined the Women's National Basketball Association in 2000 as the counterpart to the National Basketball Association team the Portland Trail Blazers....
 in 2000 to become a part of the expansion season Portland team.

She also played professional basketball overseas for teams in Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
, Switzerland
Switzerland

Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
, and Greece
Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
.

Life after basketball

After her retirement from the WNBA, she returned to her hometown of St. Louis and served as a development officer for the Institute for Science and Health.

Since 2004, she has been serving as the director for development on the St. Louis Sports Commission, a privately funded non-profit organization
Non-profit organization

A nonprofit organization is any organization that does not aim to make a profit, and which is not a public body....
. Her duties include directing the revenue generation and fundraising efforts for the commission as well its affiliated St. Louis Sports Foundation. She will also coordinates the commission's partnership and membership programs.

Folkl is married to Tassos Kaburakis, an attorney
Lawyer

A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as an Attorney at law, counsel or solicitor; a person licensed to practice fraud." Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs, maintain stability, and deliver justice....
 and a professor in sport law and management at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville began as an outgrowth of Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Southern Illinois University Edwardsville is located in Edwardsville, Illinois about 20 miles from St....
 via Indiana University
Indiana University

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.

According to an article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is the major city-wide newspaper in St. Louis, Missouri. Although written to serve Greater St. Louis, the Post-Dispatch is one of the largest newspapers in the Midwest region, and is available and read as far west as Kansas City, Missouri as far south as Memphis, TN and as far north as Springfield, Illinoi...
, she gave birth to her first child, Ian Nicholas, on August 29, 2006.

Vital statistics

  • Position: Forward
    Basketball

    Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a basketball through a 10 feet  high hoop under organized rules....
  • Height: 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
  • College: Stanford University
    Stanford University

    Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private university research university located in Stanford, California, California, United States....
  • Team(s): Minnesota Lynx
    Minnesota Lynx

    The Minnesota Lynx are a Women's National Basketball Association team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota and play their home games at the Target Center....
    , Portland Fire
    Portland Fire

    The Portland Fire joined the Women's National Basketball Association in 2000 as the counterpart to the National Basketball Association team the Portland Trail Blazers....
     (1999-2002)


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