Rebecca Lobo
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Rebecca Rose Lobo (born October 6, 1973 in Hartford, Connecticut) is a college basketball analyst and a former player in the professional Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) from 1997 to 2003.
Career
College Basketball career
She 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 awards.
Professional Basketball career
She was assigned to the New York Liberty, during the WNBA's first player allocations on January 22, 1997. She spent five years of her career with New York. Lobo was traded to the Houston Comets from the New York Liberty in exchange for Houston's second-round selection (26th overall) in the 2002 WNBA Draft. After playing the 2003 WNBA season with the Connecticut Sun, she retired.
Sports commentator
Today, Lobo is seen as a color analyst for NBA-TV for primarily WNBA games. She also announces and commentates women's and men's college basketball games as well, primarily for her alma mater, the University of Connecticut.
Family
She is married to Sports Illustrated writer Steve Rushin. On December 25, 2004 Rushin and Lobo had their first child, a baby daughter named Siobhan Rose Rushin.Breast cancer advocate
In 1996, Lobo and her mother, RuthAnn Lobo, collaborated on a book entitled The Home Team [link], which dealt with RuthAnn's battle with breast cancer.
Rebecca was the 1996 spokesperson for the Lee National Denim Day fundraiser which raises millions of dollars for breast cancer research and education.
Trivia
A street named "Rebecca Lobo Way" in Southwick, Massachusetts, where she attended high school, is named after her.External links
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