{"id":96893,"date":"2014-09-30T08:43:34","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T12:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=96893"},"modified":"2014-10-03T09:34:53","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T13:34:53","slug":"pbs-traces-roots-of-born-champion-rebecca-lobo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2014\/09\/pbs-traces-roots-of-born-champion-rebecca-lobo\/","title":{"rendered":"PBS Traces Roots of &#8216;Born Champion&#8217; Rebecca Lobo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding: 5px 15px 15px 0px;clear: both;float: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/rebeccalobo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-96889 img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/rebeccalobo.jpg\" alt=\"Rebecca Lobo against a background of a basketball.\" width=\"340\" height=\"227\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/rebeccalobo.jpg 630w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/rebeccalobo-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/rebeccalobo-150x100.jpg 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 340px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 340\/227;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>UConn alum and ESPN broadcaster Rebecca Lobo &#8217;95 (CLAS) was featured on the PBS show &#8216;Finding Your Roots&#8217; with Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Sept. 30.<\/p>\n<p>The episode, &#8216;Born Champions,&#8217; traces the origins of &#8220;three of America&#8217;s greatest athletes,&#8221; whose ancestors immigrated to the United States to build a new life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/uconnalumni.com\/index.php\/alumni\/find\/featured-notable-alumni\">Lobo<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 who played on the first UConn women&#8217;s basketball team to win the national championship in 1995, won a gold medal with the USA Olympic team in 1996, and played with the WNBA from 1997 to 2003 before taking up a career in broadcasting \u2013 discovers that her Spanish forebear was forced to flee his country because of his democratic ideals.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UConn alum and ESPN broadcaster Rebecca Lobo was featured on the PBS show Finding Your Roots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":96889,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[117],"class_list":["post-96893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-03 05:42:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96893"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97075,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96893\/revisions\/97075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/96889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96893"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=96893"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=96893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}