Rebecca Lobo Biography - Sporting Family, Strength On- And Off-court, Chronology, Remains In Limelight, Contact Information - SELECTED WRITINGS BY LOBO:
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American basketball player
Defeat is not a common word in Rebecca Lobo's vocabulary. During her senior year playing basketball
Rebecca Lobo
for the University of Connecticut, her team did not lose a single game. The following year she joined USA Basketball's Women's National Team, which won fifty-two straight games on its way to the Olympics, and continued on to win a gold medal. Off-court, too, Lobo has come out a winner, remaining strong while her mother battled—and survived—breast cancer. Today, Lobo is one of the most recognized faces in women's professional basketball, and her popularity is credited as one of the factors that spurred creation of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).
SELECTED WRITINGS BY LOBO:
(With RuthAnn Lobo) The Home Team: Of Mothers, Daughters and American Champions, Kodansha International, 1996.
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The 6'4" Lobo comes from a sports-oriented—and tall—family. Her dad and mom, both school administrators, stand 6'5" and 5'11", respectively. Her 6'10" brother, Jason, played basketball at Dartmouth and her sister, Rachel, is an assistant basketball coach at Massachussetts' Salem State. Lobo learned the sport of basketball…
Lobo's college career at the University of Connecticut began inauspiciously. While she performed well personally—her average of 14.3 points and 7.9 rebounds per game earned her Big East Rookie of the Year honors—the Huskies were eliminated from the NCAA tournament in the second round. The team's performance was even more lackluster the following year. During Lobo'…
Lobo remained in the limelight following graduation from UConn. In 1996 she became the youngest member of the USA Basketball Women's National Team, which won all fifty-two of its games leading up to the Olympics and went on to capture the gold. That same year, Lobo and her mother released a co-autobiography, The Home Team: Of Mothers, Daughters, and American Champions. Following the Olympic…
Address: c/o Houston Comets, 2 Greenway Plaza, Suite 400, Houston, TX 77046. Online: www.wnba.com/rebeccalobo.
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