Everything about Rebecca Lobo totally explained
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.
Career
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. 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.
Breast cancer advocate
In
1996, Lobo and her mother, RuthAnn Lobo, collaborated on a book entitled
The Home Team (External Link
), 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.
Trivia
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.Further Information
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