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Rebecca Lobo: New York Liberty
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Mention the name Rebecca Lobo and women's basketball immediately comes to mind. A star of the WNBA's New York Liberty team from its inception, Lobo is one of the most accomplished basketball players, both personally and professionally. She moved to the Houston Comets in 2002.
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Rebecca Lobo captained UConn's national championship women's basketball team in 1995. She is now a member of the New York Liberty team, and in 1999 was voted by the Boston Globe as one of the top 100 New England sports figures of the 20th century.
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Lobo began playing on boys' basketball teams because there were no teams for girls. The leading scorer of either gender in her state's high school history, the 6'4” Lobo was recruited by more than 100 universities. At the University of Connecticut, she led the Lady Huskies to their first NCAA basketball championship. Lobo played for the WNBA's New York Liberty and two other teams before retiring in 2003 to pursue other challenges.
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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 tore the anterior cruciate ligament in her left knee and never fully recovered.
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Rebecca Lobo, the 28-year-old center for the WNBA's New York Liberty women's basketball team, is not someone who's used to losing, having won 102 consecutive games at one point in her college and Olympic career. And that experience extends to her investments, where she's been carefully putting her money in a diversified equity portfolio since her senior year at the University of Connecticut in 1995.
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