At age 17, Rebecca Lobo faced the biggest decision of a young adult’s life: which college she was going to attend. Unlike most 17-year-olds, however, she was one of the top basketball prospects in the nation and had numerous schools vying for her enrollment. There was just one school that her parents were dead set against: The University of Connecticut.
“My parents did not want me to go to UConn,” she said. “It was very clear to me that the one school they didn’t want to go to was UConn because they were teachers in Connecticut and it was seen as a safety school academically.