Rebecca Lobo has garnered success both on and off the court as one of the best Connecticut women’s basketball players to ever wear the Husky uniform. Lobo was named the National Player of the Year in 1995 after leading the University of Connecticut Women’s Basketball team to its first National Championship and undefeated campaign (35-0). She was also a two-time ECAC Player of the Year in 1994 and 1995, and a part of two Huskies’ teams that earned ECAC Division I Team of the Year distinction. In addition to her excellence on the basketball court, Lobo showed exemplary prowess in the classroom. She was named an ECAC Scholar Athlete in both her junior and senior seasons in Storrs.
In 1996, the basketball standout was the youngest member of the U.S. Women’s Olympic Basketball team that earned the Gold Medal in Atlanta, Ga., before embarking on her professional career in the WNBA. After retiring in 2003 from a successful career in the WNBA, Lobo was inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 2010.
Lobo continued her success off the court and is now the top voice as an ESPN reporter and color analyst in the women’s game for both college and WNBA. Lobo and her mother, RuthAnn, also founded the “RuthAnn and Rebecca Lobo Scholarship in Allied Health” at the University of Connecticut to encourage diversity in the health professions.