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Rebecca Rose Lobo (born October 6, 1973 in Hartford, Connecticut
Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford is the Capital of the Connecticut. It is located in Hartford County, Connecticut on the Connecticut River, north of the center of the state, south of Springfield, Massachusetts....
) is an American television 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....
 analyst and a former player in the professional 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) from 1997 to 2003. Lobo, at 6' 4", played the center
Center (basketball)

The center, colloquially known as the five or the pivot, is one of the standard positions in a regulation basketball game. The center is normally the tallest on the team, and often has a great deal of strength and body mass as well....
 position for much of her career.

tive of Southwick, Massachusetts
Southwick, Massachusetts

Southwick is a New England town in Hampden County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 8,835 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Springfield, Massachusetts metropolitan area....
, Lobo was the state scoring record-holder with 2,710 points in her high school career for in Southwick-Tolland Regional High School
Southwick-Tolland Regional high school

Southwick-Tolland Regional High School is a Public school high school serving grades 9-12 in Southwick, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Southwick-Tolland Regional School District....
 in Massachusetts
Massachusetts

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a U.S. state located in the New England region of the Northeastern United States United States. It borders Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north....
. She held this record for 18 years until it was eclipsed by Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir of the New Leadership Charter School in Springfield on January 26, 2009.

attended the University of Connecticut
University of Connecticut

The University of Connecticut is the Connecticut's land-grant university. It was founded in 1881 and serves more than 28,000 students on its six campuses, including nearly 8,000 graduate students in multiple programs....
 and helped lead the Huskies
Connecticut Huskies

The Connecticut Huskies, also known as the UConn Huskies, are the athletic teams of the University of Connecticut. The school is a member of National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I and the Big East Conference for all sports except Men's Ice Hockey and Women's Ice Hockey ....
 to the 1995 National Championship
NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship

The NCAA Women's Division I Championship is an annual basketball tournament for women. Held each April, the Women's Championship was inaugurated in the 1981 in sports-1982 in sports season....
 with an undefeated 35-0 record.






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Rebecca Rose Lobo (born October 6, 1973 in Hartford, Connecticut
Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford is the Capital of the Connecticut. It is located in Hartford County, Connecticut on the Connecticut River, north of the center of the state, south of Springfield, Massachusetts....
) is an American television 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....
 analyst and a former player in the professional 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) from 1997 to 2003. Lobo, at 6' 4", played the center
Center (basketball)

The center, colloquially known as the five or the pivot, is one of the standard positions in a regulation basketball game. The center is normally the tallest on the team, and often has a great deal of strength and body mass as well....
 position for much of her career.

Career


High school

A native of Southwick, Massachusetts
Southwick, Massachusetts

Southwick is a New England town in Hampden County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 8,835 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Springfield, Massachusetts metropolitan area....
, Lobo was the state scoring record-holder with 2,710 points in her high school career for in Southwick-Tolland Regional High School
Southwick-Tolland Regional high school

Southwick-Tolland Regional High School is a Public school high school serving grades 9-12 in Southwick, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Southwick-Tolland Regional School District....
 in Massachusetts
Massachusetts

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a U.S. state located in the New England region of the Northeastern United States United States. It borders Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north....
. She held this record for 18 years until it was eclipsed by Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir of the New Leadership Charter School in Springfield on January 26, 2009.

College

Lobo attended the University of Connecticut
University of Connecticut

The University of Connecticut is the Connecticut's land-grant university. It was founded in 1881 and serves more than 28,000 students on its six campuses, including nearly 8,000 graduate students in multiple programs....
 and helped lead the Huskies
Connecticut Huskies

The Connecticut Huskies, also known as the UConn Huskies, are the athletic teams of the University of Connecticut. The school is a member of National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I and the Big East Conference for all sports except Men's Ice Hockey and Women's Ice Hockey ....
 to the 1995 National Championship
NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship

The NCAA Women's Division I Championship is an annual basketball tournament for women. Held each April, the Women's Championship was inaugurated in the 1981 in sports-1982 in sports season....
 with an undefeated 35-0 record. In her senior year, she won the 1995 Naismith
Naismith College Player of the Year

The Naismith College Player of the Year award, named for basketball inventor James Naismith, is given annually by the Atlanta Tipoff Club to college basketball's top male and female player....
 and College Player of the Year award. Rebecca Lobo was a member of the inaugural class of inductees to the University of Connecticut women's basketball "Huskies of Honor" recognition program.

Professional

After college, Lobo joined the WNBA for its inaugural season. Lobo was assigned to the New York Liberty
New York Liberty

The New York Liberty is a Women's National Basketball Association team based in New York City, New York. They are one of the eight original WNBA teams that began to see action in 1997, as well one of the most successful teams in WNBA history....
 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
Anterior cruciate ligament

The anterior cruciate ligament is one of the four major ligaments of the knee. It connects from a posterio-lateral part of the femur to an anterio-medial part of the tibia....
 in a nasty injury to her left knee where her entire lower leg bent inwards at a 50 degree angle and never fully recovered.

Sports announcing


Today, Lobo is seen as a reporter and color analyst for ESPN
ESPN

ESPN is a United States cable television Television network dedicated to Broadcasting of sports events and producing sports-related programming 24 hours a day....
 with a focus on women's college basketball and WNBA games.

Family

Lobo is the youngest daughter of Dennis and RuthAnn Lobo. Her father is half Cuba
Cuba

The Republic of Cuba is a country in the Caribbean. It consists of the island of Cuba , the island of Isla de la Juventud, and several adjacent small islands....
n and half Polish. Her mother is of German and Irish
Irish people

The Irish people are a Western European ethnic group who originate in Ireland, in north western Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolgs, Tuatha D? Danann and the Milesians ?the last group supposedly representing the "pure" Gaelic a...
 heritage. Her brother Jason played basketball at Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College is a private university, coeducational university located in Hanover, New Hampshire, New Hampshire. Incorporated as "Trustees of Dartmouth College,"...
. Her sister Rachel played basketball at Salem State College.

She is married to former Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated

Sports Illustrated is an United States sports magazine owned by Mass media conglomerate Time Warner. It has over 3 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week, including over 18 million men, 19% of the adult males in the United States....
 writer Steve Rushin
Steve Rushin

Steve Rushin is an American sportswriter. He wrote a weekly column, Air and Space, for Sports Illustrated magazine. Formerly labeled Steve Rushin's Air and Space, the column ran from 1998-2007 and concentrated on subjects within and sometimes tangential to sports....
. 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. Their son, Thomas Joseph Rushin, was born October 6, 2008.

Breast cancer advocate


In 1996, Lobo and her mother, Ruth Ann Lobo, collaborated on a book entitled The Home Team , which dealt with Ruth Ann's battle with breast cancer
Breast cancer

Breast cancer is a cancer that starts in the Cell of the breast in women and men. Worldwide, breast cancer is the second most common type of cancer after lung cancer and the fifth most common cause of cancer death....
.

Rebecca was the 1996 spokesperson for the Lee National Denim Day
Lee National Denim Day

Lee National Denim Day is a single-day fundraiser created by Lee Jeans to support the Women's Cancer Programs of the Entertainment Industry Foundation....
 fund raiser which raises millions of dollars for breast cancer
Breast cancer

Breast cancer is a cancer that starts in the Cell of the breast in women and men. Worldwide, breast cancer is the second most common type of cancer after lung cancer and the fifth most common cause of cancer death....
 research and education.

University of Connecticut Statistics


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Rebecca Lobo Statistics at University of Connecticut
Year | G | FG | FGA | PCT | 3FG | 3FGA | PCT | FT | FTA | PCT | REB | AVG | A | TO | B | S | MIN | PTS | AVG
1991-92 29 167 338 0.494 0 1 0.000 82 117 0.701 228 7.9 26 78 46 30 675 416 14.3
1992-93 29 189 421 0.449 29 85 0.341 77 119 0.647 326 11.2 37 75 97 26 926 484 16.7
1993-94 33 243 445 0.546 11 34 0.324 138 187 0.738 371 11.2 68 107 131 34 966 635 19.2
1994-95 35 238 476 0.5 18 51 0.353 104 154 0.675 343 9.8 129 91 122 40 1005 598 17.1
Totals 126 837 1680 0.498 58 171 0.339 401 577 0.695 1268 10.1 260 351 396 130 3572 2133 16.9


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