Rebecca Lobo

Professional Basketball

• Date of Birth: 10/6/73, Height: 6’ 4”, Weight: 185 lbs., College: University of Connecticut.
• Rebecca was one of the stars of the Women’s National Basketball Association (“WNBA”). She began her career as a starting forward/center for the New York Liberty. Ms. Lobo signed with the WNBA on October 23, 1996 and was one of two premier players assigned to New York.
• Rebecca Lobo Rushin retired from the WNBA on September 23, 2003 after a successful seven-year career as one of the League’s most beloved players.
• On February 14, 2003, Ms. Lobo was traded to the Connecticut Sun, a WNBA expansion team located near her alma mater, the University of Connecticut. She was delighted to play the 2003 season in the state where she had experienced her greatest basketball success.
• During the 2001-02 off-season, New York traded Ms. Lobo to the Houston Comets and she played the 2002 WNBA season for that franchise.
• Ms. Lobo returned to the New York Liberty for the 2001 WNBA season, in a limited role, after almost two years of rehabilitating her severely injured left knee.
• Ms. Lobo suffered a season-ending injury to the anterior cruciate ligament in her left knee 42 seconds into the first game of the 1999 WNBA regular season. Rebecca underwent successful knee surgery on July 1, 1999. Despite playing less than 1 minute, WNBA fans around the country voted Rebecca one of the starting forwards for the Eastern Conference in the inaugural WNBA All-Star Game held on July 14, 1999 in Madison Square Garden.
• On December 12, 1999, Ms. Lobo re-injured her left knee during a rehabilitation session involving a basketball workout. Ms. Lobo had a second successful operation on December 15, 1999. Unfortunately, the second operation forced her to miss the 2000 WNBA campaign.
• During the 1998 WNBA season, Rebecca started all 30 games averaging 11.7 points, 6.9 rebounds, 1.2 assists, and 1.1 blocks per contest. Rebecca shot 71% from the free throw line and .308 from behind the three-point line. Rebecca led the team in shooting percentage at .484, rebounding, blocked shots and “double-doubles” (5). She also led the team in rebounding 14 times and scoring 3 times.
• 1998 Season highs: (1) Points - 22 vs. Los Angeles (8/8/98); (2) Rebounds – 13 vs. Washington (7/5/98); (3) Assists – 5 vs. Cleveland (6/23/98); (4) Steals – 3 vs. Houston (6/13/98); (5) Blocks – 3 (4 times); (6) Minutes – 39 vs. Charlotte (8/5/98).
• On July 2, 1997 Rebecca won her 100th straight game as an Olympic, professional and collegiate basketball player. Rebecca won 35 games without a loss and a National Collegiate Athletic Association (“NCAA”) Championship during her senior season at the University of Connecticut (1994-95). In 1995-96, she won 60 games in a row as a member of the U.S. National Team and 1996 U.S. Women’s Olympic Basketball Team. Ms. Lobo’s winning streak ended at 102 on July 7, 1997 when the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury defeated the Liberty. Her accomplishment is one of the most remarkable feats in team sports history.
• In the inaugural season of the WNBA, Ms. Lobo was voted to the All-WNBA Second Team. The Liberty’s regular season record was 17-11. After defeating the Western Conference Champion Phoenix Mercury, in which Rebecca had a game high 16 points, the Liberty advanced to the first WNBA Championship Game, but was defeated by the Houston Comets.
• Inaugural season highs: (1) Points – 27 vs. Utah (8/19/97); (2) Rebounds – 12 vs. Sacramento (7/30/97); (3) Assists – 5 vs. Los Angeles (7/19/97); (4) Steals – 3 (twice); (5) Blocks – 5 vs. Utah (8/19/97); (6) Minutes – 41 vs. Houston (6/26/97).

Twentieth Century Sports Lists Selections

• On October 17, 1999, the Boston Globe named Rebecca number 76 on the list of the top 100 New England sports figures of the twentieth century.
• In 1999, sports fans living in western Massachusetts voted Rebecca number 1 on the list of the 22 best athletes of the 20th century from that region. “Channel 22”, a local Massachusetts television station, conducted the poll on-line. Ms. Lobo was selected ahead of several well-known athletes including: Nick Buoniconti (a defensive star for the undefeated 1972 Miami Dolphins), Tim Daggett (1984 Olympic Gold Medalist in gymnastics), Travis Best (guard, Indiana Pacers), and Mark Chmura (former tight end, Green Bay Packers).

Basketball Hall of Fame

• On February 27, 1999, for the first time in Basketball Hall of Fame history, two lockers (Rebecca’s and Sheryl Swoopes’) honoring female professional players were dedicated in the Hall of Fame’s Vinick All-Star Locker Room. Rebecca joined basketball superstars Michael Jordan and Charles Barkley, who are among fourteen players who have lockers filled with personal memorabilia in the exhibit on the first floor of the museum.

Olympic Basketball

• Rebecca Lobo won a Gold Medal as the youngest member of the 1996 United State’s Women’s Olympic Basketball team in Atlanta, Georgia.

College Basketball

• A partial list of Ms. Lobo’s college basketball awards as the 1995 Consensus National Player of the Year from her senior year at the University of Connecticut include: (1) Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year; (2) Honda-Broderick Cup as the Outstanding Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year; (3) Women’s Sports Foundation Woman of the Year (Team Sports), (4) NCAA Woman of the Year; (5) ESPY Awards – Female Athlete of the Year & Female College Basketball Player of the Year; (6) Ban/Naismith National Player of the Year; (7) Wade Trophy National Player of the Year; (8) WBCA/Converse National Player of the Year; (9) Associated Press National Player f the Year; (10) United States Basketball Writers Association (“USBWA”) National Women’s Player of the Year; (11) Kodak First Team All-America (2nd consecutive year); (12) USBWA First Team All-America; (13) Unanimous Associated Press First Team All-America (top vote recipient); (14) College Sports Magazine National Player of the Year; (15) Victor Award recipient as National Player of the Year; (16) Women’s Basketball News Service National Player of the Year; (17) Most Valuable Player of the 1995 NCAA Final Four; (18) Big East Conference Player of the Year (2nd consecutive year).
• Ms. Lobo’s 1995 college academic honors include: (1) Rhodes Scholar candidate, (2) NCAA GTE/Co-Team Member of the Year (one of the nation’s two top scholar athletes); (3) GTE/CoSida Women’s Basketball National Academic All-American of the Year; (4) GTE/CoSida First Team Academic All-America (2nd consecutive year); (6) Big East /Soft & Dri Women’s Basketball Scholar-Athlete of the Year (2nd consecutive year); (7) Big East Academic All-Star team (3rd consecutive year); (8) inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society in April of 1995; (9) only Big East player in history to earn Big East Player of the Year and Scholar-Athlete of the Year honors in a career – Rebecca did this twice.

Smithsonian Institution

• On February 17, 2004, the Smithsonian Institution held a reception in honor of Rebecca and 24 other notable individuals of Hispanic descent (including former U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Antonia C. Novello; Astronaut, Ellen Ochoa; the owner of the Colorado Rockies, Linda Alvarado; and television journalist and Emmy Award winner, John Quinones) who are featured in an exhibit entitled "Our Journeys/Our Stories: Portraits of Latino Achievement". Rebecca’s paternal grandfather was Cuban. The photographic and biographical exhibit will be displayed at the Smithsonian Museum of American History for approximately seven (7) weeks before being taken on a national tour including twenty-six (26) other cities throughout the United States.

Television Broadcaster/Sports Analyst

• In 1997, 1998 and 1999 she served as one of three studio hosts/analysts during ESPN’s exclusive coverage of the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament. During “March Madness”, Ms. Lobo was asked to analyze players’ strengths and weaknesses, offer her assessment of the teams likely to advance to the “Final Four” and predict which basketball program ultimately will be crowned the National Champion. Ms. Lobo plans to pursue television broadcasting as a full-time occupation once she completes her professional basketball career.
• Ms. Lobo also has provided analysis of women’s college and/or international basketball for CBS, ESPN, NBA Television, Yankees Entertainment and Sports Network, College Sports Television, and Connecticut Public Television.

Author/Books

• In 1996, Rebecca co-authored The Home Team with her mother, RuthAnn. Their autobiographical account of Rebecca’s basketball career and her mother’s successful battle with breast cancer has received critical acclaim and commercial success. Kodansha America published The Home Team in July 1996.
• In 2003, Rebecca was a contributor to This Day: Diaries From American Women. A compilation of “day diaries” of 35 extraordinary American women all prepared on a single day. The project began with 500 participants and the authors selected 35 “slices of life” for inclusion in the book. The diaries comprise a snapshot of the experiences American women have on any given day. Submissions appearing in the work include offerings from individuals ranging from Miss America 2003 to a Professor of Gross Anatomy to an Inmate in Shakopee, Minnesota. (Beyond Words Publishing 2003).
• Rebecca, her mother (RuthAnn), her sister (Rachel) and her maternal grandmother (Ruth) appear in The Family of Women, a book authored and photographed by Carolyn Jones (Abbeville Press Publishers, 1999), which provides photographs and profiles of extraordinary women in families with at least three living generations.
• In addition, Rebecca wrote a short inspirational work which was published in 33 Things Every Girl Should Know, subtitled “Stories, Songs, Poems, And Smart Talk By 33 Extraordinary Women” (edited by Tonya Bolden, Crown Books, 1998).
• Ms. Lobo also contributed a photograph of herself in the kitchen preparing her grandmother’s favorite recipe for marinated, baked chicken (“Nana Lobo’s Chicken”) to All-Star Feast (Global Liaisons, Inc., 1997), a cook book featuring the favorite recipes of over 130 star athletes. Proceeds from the sale of the book benefited three charities: Special Olympics International, The Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis, and the Women’s Sports Foundation.

Public Speaker

• Ms. Lobo is a regular motivational speaker who has provided inspirational speeches to various groups throughout the United States. Rebecca’s audiences typically include: business executives, cancer survivors (with her mother RuthAnn), athletic teams, college students and administrators, civic groups, girls scouts, school children, and corporate employees. Ms. Lobo has given presentations in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Wisconsin.

Television & Motion Pictures

• Ms. Lobo appeared on ABC’s “Nightline” on September18, 2003 to discuss the state of women’s professional sports in America. The other guest interviewed was Ladies’ Professional Golf Association Hall of Fame inductee, Judy Rankin.
• On March 4, 2003, Ms. Lobo appeared on the “Today Show” along with a star from the New York Giants, a humorist, and the Editor of USA Today to engage in a light-hearted discussion of the results of a USA Today readers’ poll regarding “The 10 Hardest Things To Do In Sports”.
• November 6, 2000 was the second occasion Rebecca appeared on an episode of “Two Minute Drill”, a new ESPN game show which has sports celebrities (past and present) ask contestants sports trivia questions in rapid succession over the course of two minutes. Ozzie Smith (former shortstop for the St. Louis Cardinals) and Archie Manning (former Quarterback for the New Orleans Saints) were the other celebrity guests on the show.
• On October 27, 2000 Rebecca made her first appearance on “Two Minute Drill”. Ozzie Smith and Peyton Manning (Quarterback, Indianapolis Colts) were the other sports celebrities on the show.
• On October 17, 2000 Rebecca and her mother, RuthAnn, made appearances on two shows on the Oxygen Network, “Trackers” and “Pure Oxygen”, to discuss Mrs. Lobo’s successful battle with breast cancer as part of the network’s observance of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
• September 27, 2000 was the screening date for an educational videotape hosted by Rebecca and her mother, RuthAnn, entitled “Teens Talk About Breast Cancer”. The videotape was made possible by a grant from the Susan G. Komen Foundation to the Adelphi New York Statewide Breast Cancer Hotline and Support Program. The program is run by Adelphi University’s School of Social Work, Garden City, New Jersey.
• Ms. Lobo (along with Anthony Munoz) was given the honor of presenting the Chicago Cubs’ star and homerun sensation Sammy Sosa with the 2000 Hispanic Heritage Award for Sports. The award presentation was made to Mr. Sosa before a game in Denver, CO. The taped presentation was incorporated into the Hispanic Heritage Awards show which was shown nationally on NBC affiliates on September 9, 2000.
• During June of 2000, an interview of Rebecca and her mother was shown nationally on Lifetime Television in a documentary entitled “I Am My Mother’s Daughter”. The show used interviews with positive female role models to demonstrate the impact of the mother-daughter relationship on women’s self-esteem.
• On February 3, 2000, Rebecca was a guest on the premiere episode of “Trackers” on the Oxygen cable television network. Oxygen was launched February 2, 2000 by Oprah Winfrey, Geraldine Laybourne (formerly of Nickelodeon) and Carsey-Werner-Mandabach Productions. Trackers is a live, two-hour, interactive talk/magazine show hosted by three young women and psychologist, Dr. Mike Riera. Viewers are invited to call-in and talk to guests about entertainment, music, relationships, sports, news and pop culture. Ms. Lobo also participated in an Internet chat with Trackers’ television audience immediately following her appearance.
• Ms. Lobo appeared on the “Ainsley Harriott Show” on January 27, 2000. Ainsley Harriott is a British entertainer who hosts a lighthearted, syndicated talk show where he interviews and/or cooks with celebrity guests. Richard Branson, the billionaire CEO of Virgin Atlantic Records and Virgin Atlantic Airlines also was a guest on the show the day Rebecca made her appearance.
• On January 11, 2000, Ms. Lobo appeared as a celebrity judge on MTV’s popular show, “What’s UP? Karaoke”. Ms. Lobo was asked to assess the stylishness of the contestants’ wardrobes. The show aired on January 20, 2000.
• January 9, 2000 was the satellite feed date for “Health Diary”, a public television show presented by KTCA-TV in St Paul/Minneapolis, MN, which included a segment on ACL injuries featuring Rebecca. The show aired nationally at various times and dates.
• On September 14, 1999, Ms. Lobo co-presented the 1999 Hispanic Heritage Award in Sports to Anthony Munoz, former Cincinnati Bengals offensive lineman and the first Hispanic inducted into the National Football Hall of Fame. The show was taped live and shown on October 2, 1999 on NBC affiliates in major markets throughout the United States.
• Ms. Lobo taped a WNBA/NBA celebrity episode of “Wheel of Fortune” on September 8, 1999 in Los Angeles, CA. The other two basketball stares on the program were Alonzo Mourning and Hall of Fame inductee Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Each of the basketball players had a “civilian” teammate. The show aired nationally on November 23, 1999.
• Rebecca filmed an episode of “Sister Sister”, a situation comedy featuring identical twins, on February 11-12, 1999 in Los Angeles, CA. The episode aired on the Warner Brothers Network during “Sweeps Week” on May 16, 1999.
• Ms. Lobo was (at that time) the youngest person ever to receive a Hispanic Heritage Award (her paternal grandfather was Cuban). Rebecca was honored in the Sports category on September 21, 1998, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Past recipients in a variety of disciplines include: Raul Julia, Bobby Bonilla, Rita Moreno, Tito Puente, Oscar de la Renta, Jimmy Smits and Archbishop Patrick Flores. The awards show was videotaped and aired on NBC in major markets on October 17, 1998.
• Lifetime Television aired an “Intimate Portrait” of Rebecca on June 11, 1998, immediately preceding the first televised WNBA game for the 1998 season. The show was a one-hour special chronicling Ms. Lobo’s basketball career, her life and her accomplishments away from the game.
• Rebecca also made a guest appearance on the set of “Sesame Street” on December 12, 1997, during which she played a fun game of one-on-one with Big Bird. The show aired on March 25, 1998.
• On October 16, 1997, Rebecca filmed an episode of the NBC hit series “Mad About You” which starred Helen Hunt and Paul Reiser. Rebecca, billed as the Special Guest Star, played herself in one of the show’s story lines which centered around the cast’s interest in the WNBA, the New York Liberty and Ira’s (played by John Pankow) infatuation with Ms. Lobo. The show was broadcast originally on December 9, 1997.
• On March 12, 1997, Rebecca was a panelist on the first show in a planned series of one–hour specials entitled, “Town Hall”, on Comedy Central. The focus of the show was “What’s Wrong with Sports In America?”. In typical Comedy Central style, the show delivered a serious discussion punctuated with humor.
• Rebecca’s first acting experience was a cameo role in the feature film “Jerry Maguire”, starring Tom Cruise. Unfortunately, her scene did not make it into the final version of the film, but Ms. Lobo did enjoy being on a set with an actor of Mr. Cruise’s caliber.
• On October 13, 1996, Rebecca and her mother provided a dramatic reading from The Home Team on “Lifetime Applauds: The Fight Against Breast Cancer”, which initially aired on Lifetime Television, Monday, October 21, 1996.
• On October 1-4, 1996, Rebecca filmed an episode of the Fox Television network situation comedy “Martin” along with three of her teammates from the United States Women’s Olympic Basketball Team (air date: November 7, 1996.)
• During her career, Ms. Lobo also has appeared on several television talk shows including: “The David Letterman Show”, “Live! With Regis and Kathy Lee”, “The Rosie O’Donnell Show”, “Good Morning America”, “CBS This Morning”, “The Charlie Rose Show”, “The Conan O’Brien Show”, “The Maury Povich Show”, “The Daily Show”, and “Up Close” on ESPN.

Newspapers & Magazines

• A partial list of magazines where articles, photographs and/or advertisements featuring Ms. Lobo have appeared includes: (1) Sports Illustrated For Kids (Rebecca was voted the readers’ “Favorite Female Athlete” in 1997 & 1998), (2) ”O” - The Oprah Magazine, (3) Glamour, (4) Vogue, (5) Business Week, (6) Harper’s Bazaar, (7) Good Housekeeping, (8) Family Circle, (9) Women’s Sports & Fitness, (10) Seventeen, (11) Highlights For Kids, (12) Urban-The Latino Magazine, (13) Hispanic Business, (14) Latina, and (15) Jump.
• Ms. Lobo has appeared on the covers of: (1) Reader’s Digest, (2) Body By Jake, (3) Sportstyle, (4) NEXTzone, and (5) MAMM (with her mother, RuthAnn).
• In the January/February 2001 edition of Sports Illustrated for Women, photographs of Rebecca demonstrating knee rehabilitation exercises were featured in an article on anterior cruciate ligament injuries.
• An artist’s rendering of Ms. Lobo in her New York Liberty uniform also appeared on the front page of the June 12, 1997 edition of the Wall Street Journal accompanying an article on the WNBA.
• Ms. Lobo also wrote an “op-Ed” article for the New York Times (Sunday, July 11, 1999) commenting on the potential success of a women’s professional soccer league in the United States following the United States Women’s World Cup victory on July 10, 1999. Ms. Lobo used the WNBA, which was launched by the NBA after the United States Women’s Olympic Basketball Team won the Gold Medal in 1996, as a model by which to analyze the likelihood of women’s professional soccer becoming a reality in America.

Charitable Work

• Rebecca and her mother, RuthAnn, founded “The RuthAnn and Rebecca Lobo Scholarship in Allied Health” on October 2, 2001 at the University of Connecticut. Scholarships will be awarded annually to students studying health sciences in an effort to encourage diversity in the health professions.
• Ms. Lobo became one of the Children’s Miracle Network (“CMN”) Champions in 1996. CMN has raised over 1.4 billion dollars (i.e., $1,400,000,000) in charitable donations for children’s hospitals since its inception in 1983. Each year, Ms. Lobo visits children at CMN affiliated hospitals in addition to giving speeches to CMN’s corporate sponsors regarding the importance of CMN’s mission. Ms. Lobo also annually tapes advertisements for CMN’s nationally televised fundraiser in an effort to increase viewership and the level of contributions generated by the program.
• Ms. Lobo actively supports the Hispanic Scholarship Fund (“HSF”). The HSF is the nation’s oldest and premier provider of college scholarships to Hispanic Americans. Since being founded in 1975, the HSF has awarded more than 36,000 scholarships totaling more than $38,000,000 to college and college-bound students. On July 8, 1999, the HSF announced receiving a $50,000,000 grant from Lilly Endowment, Inc. – the single largest amount ever given to promote college education among Hispanic Americans. In November 1999, Ms. Lobo selected the HSF as the recipient of a $10,000 charitable donation the “Wheel of Fortune” game show offered in lieu of an appearance fee.
• Ms. Lobo also supports Teach For America, a non-profit organization that sponsors a national corps of outstanding and diverse recent college graduates of all academic majors who commit two years to teaching in our country’s most under-resourced urban and rural schools. Each year 1000 corps members reach 100,000 students. In 1998 and 1999, Ms. Lobo prepared and taught a lesson to New York City public school children during “Teach For America Week” (i.e., a designated week each October) to highlight the need for hiring and retaining good teachers in the public sector.
• In 2000 Rebecca and her mother, RuthAnn, were the national spokespersons for Yoplait’s “Save Lids to Save Lives” breast cancer awareness and fundraising campaign.
• On May 11, 2000, Rebecca was a celebrity bartender to help raise money for Boys Village; a home servicing abused and neglected boys and girls ages 1 to 12. The proceeds from this specific event were targeted for Kids I.N.N., a home for children discharged form psychiatric hospitals due to abuse.
• On April 26, 2000, Ms. Lobo attended the sixth annual gala of the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health to help raise money for the various programs run by this prestigious institution.
• Rebecca Lobo’s photograph was used in a January and February 2000 public service campaign conducted by Learning Leaders. Formerly known as the New York City School Volunteer Program, Learning Leaders is the oldest, non-profit school volunteer program in the country. Ms. Lobo was one of four celebrities whose photographs were displayed in a bus poster campaign involving over 3,000 New York City buses. The campaign was designed to encourage individuals to give their time to this worthwhile cause and inform citizens of the organization’s name change. Each year, Learning Leaders’ volunteers help in excess of 140,000 students with reading, writing and math in over 760 New York City public schools. Learning Leaders has more than 9,300 volunteers making it larger than the Peace Corps.
• Ms. Lobo authorized her name to be used to promote the Fourth Annual Kids of NYU Sports Day Benefit. On January 23, 2000, Rebecca made a personal appearance at the event to raise money for this special cause. This charity has raised over $3 million since 1991 for NYU Medical Center. The donations have been used to: (1) fund research needed to keep NYU at the leading edge of pediatric medicine, (2) purchase equipment and services to make hospital stays more enjoyable for young patients, and (3) acquire the sophisticated technology used to facilitate many of the complex pediatric treatments offered at NYU Medical Center.
• On November 8, 1999, Ms. Lobo was an honored guest at the Starlight Children’s Foundation’s 10th Annual Celebrity Sports Auction. Ms. Lobo helped raise money to brighten the lives of chronically, critically and terminally ill children by participating in a live auction of celebrity memorabilia and donating autographed items for a silent auction. Nearly 700 people attended the event and it raised almost $200,0000 due in large measure to the efforts of Rebecca and other athletes who donated their time and autographed souvenirs to benefit this special cause.
• In 1999, Ms. Lobo also was a celebrity spokesperson for the American Library Association’s “Teen Read Week ’99” (October 17 – 23, 1999). Rebecca appeared on a “READ” poster holding a favorite book from her childhood. The national campaign was designed to impress the importance of reading on America’s teenagers by showing well-known public figures enjoying a good book. A partial list of other celebrities who have appeared on “READ” posters includes: Mel Gibson, Rosie O’Donnell, Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, Courtney Cox, Whoopi Goldberg, Spike Lee, Cindy Crawford, Shaquille O’Neal and Michelle Pfeiffer.
• On September 16, 1999, Rebecca Lobo was photographed with Donald Trump, Brian Dennehy, Jimmy Breslin and other New York personalities to create a poster inspiring New Yorkers to “give blood (and save a neighbor)”. The New York Blood Center placed the posters at bus stops throughout Manhattan and in subway stations in the other boroughs.
• In 1998, Rebecca provided Sears, Roebuck and Company with a design to be used on ties and scarves, which were sold to raise money for Gilda’s Club – a free, non-profit psychological support community for persons with cancer, their families and friends. Gene Wilder founded Gilda’s Club in memory of his wife, Gilda Radner, who died of ovarian cancer.
• Ms. Lobo was the 1996 national spokesperson for Lee Denim Day, sponsored by Lee Apparel Company. The goal of Lee National Denim Day was to raise $1,000,000 for the Susan G. Komen Foundation. The Komen Foundation is dedicated solely to breast cancer research. Lee Apparel Company solicited corporations around the United States to allow their employees to wear denim to work on October 25, 1996 (i.e., Lee National Denim Day). Each employee who participated was asked to donate $5 to the Komen Foundation. The program collected $1.4 million – almost one-half million dollars in excess of the amount originally targeted.
• Rebecca also provides autographed items for charitable auctions on an on-going basis to raise money for worthwhile causes throughout the United States.

Corporate Endorsements

• Body1.com, a business-to-business provider of Internet based sales acceleration programs for Fortune 1000 medical technology and biopharmaceutical companies and a leading developer and provider of cutting edge medical information for consumers regarding ailments afflicting specific body parts (e.g., knees, veins, shoulders, etc.).

Personal

• Ms. Lobo wed, Steven J. Rushin, a renowned Sports Illustrated columnist, on April 12, 2003 in a religious ceremony held in Simsbury, Connecticut. Rebecca and Steve have a daughter, Siobhan Rose.