Word: lobo
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Dates: during 1995-1995
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...University of Connecticut is synonymous with big time in women's college basketball. The Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts has become a post-national championship shrine for the Huskies. Senior point guard Jenn Rizotti's number hangs in one glass display case, Rebecca Lobo's in another. The team's 1995-1996 season opener against Louisianna Tech was nationally televised...
...women's basketball team in the land--the Lady Huskies were still on the floor of the University of Connecticut's Gampel Pavilion, basking in an impromptu serenade of Aretha Franklin's Respect by their large and loyal following. Said star senior forward Rebecca Lobo: "I could never imagine this day would happen: 8,000 people singing Respect, even though most of them don't know the words...
...heart of the Huskies, though, is Lobo, who has averaged 17.3 points, 10.1 rebounds and 3.5 blocks a game. Her personal story is even more compelling than her stats. If Lobo, whose parents are both educators, receives the Rhodes scholarship for which she has applied, she will undoubtedly be the first woman Rhodes scholar who: 1) made basketball All-America; 2) played the saxophone; and 3) spent five summers during her teens working in the tobacco fields of Southwick, Massachusetts. The tobacco work was tough, but Lobo did it to test her own dedication. Her inner strength has been...
...mandated equal opportunities for women--has come into its own without sacrificing ethics. "For years," says Greenberg, "I took a lot of ridicule for covering the women: 'Hey, Mel, what's it like in a girls' locker room?'- stupid stuff like that. But now my friends talk about Rebecca Lobo the way they did last year about Grant Hill. We're finally getting some respect here...