Kara Wolters
Kara Wolters with a fan.
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August 15, 1975 Natick, Massachusetts |
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| Nationality | American | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 227 lb (103 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| High school | Holliston (Holliston, Massachusetts) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College | Connecticut (1993–1997) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| WNBA draft | 1999 / Round: 3 / Pick: 36th overall | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Selected by the Houston Comets | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing career | 1999–2003 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Center | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1997–1998 | New England Blizzard | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1999 | Houston Comets | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2000 | Indiana Fever | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2001–2004 | Sacramento Monarchs | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kara Wolters Drinan (born August 15, 1975) is a retired American collegiate and professional basketball player. Standing at six feet seven inches (2.01 m), she was nicknamed "Big Girl". She is the tallest player in University of Connecticut women's basketball history and one of the tallest women to ever play in the WNBA.
Wolters was born the youngest child of Liz and William Wolters and grew up in a basketball family. Her mother, Liz, once scored 50 points in one game at Wellesley High, more than any Massachusetts high school player before. Her father, William, known as "Willie", is in the Boston College Hall of Fame and played professional basketball for the Seattle SuperSonics in the NBA. He was born in West Germany and moved to America with his family at 11 years old. He later became an insurance lawyer in Boston. Kara has always worn uniform number 52, the same number as her father, as a tribute.
Wolters has stated she has always been tall and was already 6’3" in eighth grade and she continued to grow rapidly during her career at Holliston High School. She still retains the schools scoring, rebounding and blocked shots record.
Her brother Ray played basketball at Assumption College and later Eastern Connecticut State University. She has two older sisters: Kristen, who also played college basketball, at Rhode Island, and Katie.
When Katie was six, a tumor was discovered in her brain. The growth was so large and tangled up in her brain stem that complete removal was not possible. Because of the subsequent surgery and treatment with radiation, she developed short-term memory loss and lost some of her sense of balance, and sometimes has seizures that prevent her from driving. Kara would later form the "Kara Kares Foundation" in 1998, which supports brain tumor research. Katie died in 2004 as a result of her brain tumor.
Wolters married Sean Drinan, a financial advisor with Stifel Nicolaus, in November 2004 and currently works as a studio analyst during University of Connecticut women's basketball games for SNY. They have two daughters. Her first daughter, Sydney Elizabeth, was born on March 8, 2007 and her second daughter, Delaney Katherine, was born on March 12, 2008.
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