Rebecca Lobo
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| Born |
October 6, 1973 Hartford, Connecticut |
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| Nationality | American | |||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | |||||||||||||||
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| High school |
Southwick-Tolland (Southwick, Massachusetts) |
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| College | Connecticut (1991–1995) | |||||||||||||||
| WNBA draft | 1997 / Allocated | |||||||||||||||
| Selected by the New York Liberty | ||||||||||||||||
| Playing career | 1997–2003 | |||||||||||||||
| Position | Center | |||||||||||||||
| Number | 50 | |||||||||||||||
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| 1997–2001 | New York Liberty | |||||||||||||||
| 2002 | Houston Comets | |||||||||||||||
| 2003 | Connecticut Sun | |||||||||||||||
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| Basketball Hall of Fame as player | ||||||||||||||||
| Women's Basketball Hall of Fame | ||||||||||||||||
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Rebecca Rose Lobo-Rushin (born October 6, 1973) is an American television basketball analyst and former women's basketball player in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) from 1997 to 2003. Lobo, at 6'4", played the center position for much of her career. Lobo played college basketball at the University of Connecticut, where she was a member of the team that won the 1995 national championship, going 35–0 on the season in the process. In April 2017, she was announced as one of the members of the 2017 class of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, alongside Tracy McGrady and Muffet McGraw.
Lobo was born in Hartford, Connecticut, the youngest daughter of RuthAnn (née McLaughlin) and Dennis Joseph Lobo. Her father is of Cuban, Spanish, Polish (Catholic) and Ashkenazi Jewish descent, while her mother was of German and Irish heritage. Lobo was raised a Catholic. Her brother Jason played basketball at Dartmouth College and her sister Rachel played basketball at Salem State College. Both her parents were teachers; in addition, her father was a basketball coach. Raised in Southwick, Massachusetts, Lobo was the state scoring record-holder with 2,740 points in her high school career for Southwick-Tolland Regional High School in Massachusetts. 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.
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