Could you tell us about your charity?
St. Mary's is a kindergarten through 8th grade school. It is a wonderfully nuturing environment for young children. My daughter goes there. And they are over the moon about this, because this kind of money can do so many things for this school.
Do you think you are going to win?
Well, my husband doesn't think I'll win my game, but, uh, y'know, I-I'm a competitive person, I am thrilled to have a chance to win some money for this charity, and, um, I'm'a give it my all, and I think that I know a little bit about a lot of things, and hopefully that will help me here today.
How might your experience as an athlete give you an edge?
Um, I don't know if I have an edge. I think I'm definitely competitive, and, uh, I will have an edge if there are a lot of sports-related questions. |
"Later this year, she'll be inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame. Please welcome former WNBA all-star and ESPN commentator..."
Playing on behalf of St. Mary's School.
Rebecca Lobo remains one of the best known female basketball players of all time. The 6-foot-4 center played college ball for the University of Connecticut's first undefeated National Championship team in 1995. While at UConn, Rebecca won the Naismith and Wade Player of the Year awards, the Honda-Broderick Cup as Woman Athlete of the Year, ESPY's for Women's College Basketball Performer of the Year and Female Athlete of the Year and was named the Female Athlete of the Year by the Associated Press. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa and was a Rhodes Scholar candidate.
In 1996, Rebecca was the youngest member of the gold medal-winning U.S. women's basketball team at the Olympic games in Atlanta. The next year Rebecca was one of the first two players to sign with the WNBA for its inaugural season. She played with the New York Liberty for 5 seasons and concluded her 7-year-career with the Connecticut Sun in 2003. She now works as an analyst and reporter for ESPN and has been a frequent presence on television, appearing on everything from children's shows (Sesame Street) to late-night (David Letterman, Conan O'Brien).
In 2007, she was made an honorary doctor of humane letters at Western New England College and in 2008, she delivered the commencement address at the University of Connecticut where she's been a member of the University's Board of Trustees since 2004.
Lobo is coauthor, with her mother RuthAnn, of The Home Team, a book chronicling Rebecca's basketball career and RuthAnn's battle with breast cancer. In 2010 ESPN will publish Fathers & Daughters & Sports, for which Rebecca wrote the introduction. In June of 2010 she will be inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame.
Lobo and her husband, writer Steve Rushin, have three children and live in Connecticut. |
