Rebecca Lobo Basketball Card
Rebecca Lobo Basketball Card
Team USA's female athletes inspired a generation
At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, a record-breaking 292 female athletes took the fields, courts, track, and pool by storm, outnumbering men on the 555-member U.S. team and marking the largest number of women to represent a nation in the history of the games. Latina basketball player Rebecca Lobo was perhaps the best-known player on the 1996 Team USA. The women’s basketball team swept the Olympic tournament, claiming gold and serving as a springboard for a professional women’s league, the Women’s National Basketball Association.
Basketball card of Rebecca Lobo while playing for the 1996 USA Basketball Women's National Team
- depicted
- Rushin, Rebecca
- Upper Deck
- Description (Brief)
- Basketball card of Rebecca Lobo while playing for the 1996 USA Basketball Women's National Team. Lobo was a member of the University of Connecticut basketball team when they won the National Championships in 1995. After her Olympic appearance she became of member of the WNBA team New York Liberty and went on to play for the Houston Comets and Conneticut Suns.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1996
- ID Number
- 2004.0164.05
- accession number
- 2004.0164
- catalog number
- 2004.0164.05
- Object Name
- card, basketball
- basketball card
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in; 8.89 cm x 6.35 cm
- National Museum of American History
- subject
- Basketball
- Amateur
- Olympics
- Women
- African American
- Record ID
- nmah_1916158
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b4-aecb-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
