Biography

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Rebecca Lobo holds the state scoring record with 2,710 points in her high school career in Southwick-Tolland Regional High School in Massachusetts.

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.

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.

Today, Rebecca Lobo is seen as a reporter and color analyst for ESPN with a focus on women's college basketball and WNBA games.

Rebecca Lobo is the youngest daughter of Dennis and Ruth Ann 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. She is now pregnant with their third child.

In 1996, Rebecca Lobo and her mother, Ruth Ann Lobo, collaborated on a book entitled The Home Team, which dealt with Ruth Ann's battle with breast cancer.

Lobo was the 1996 spokesperson for the Lee National Denim Day fund raiser which raises millions of dollars for breast cancer research and education.

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