Rebecca Lobo

Rebecca Lobo, a 6-4 (193 cm) center, starred in college at the University of Connecticut, where she led them to an undefeated season in 1994-95 and the NCAA Championship. She won the Wade Trophy and the Honda Sports Award for basketball as the best women’s college player in the country. Internationally Lobo played on the USA U-18 and U-19 teams and then was chosen for the USA National Team in 1995, winning a gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.

In 1997 Lobo was assigned to the New York Liberty in the first year of the WNBA. She played with them through 2001 although her career was slowed by an anterior cruciate ligament tear in 1999. Lobo later played one year each with the Houston Comets and the Connecticut Sun, before retiring in 2003.

After retiring, Lobo became a color commentator on women’s basketball for ESPN. In 2003, she also married Steve Rushin, a sportswriter for Sports Illustrated and together they had four children. Lobo was inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 2010 and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2017.