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...want to take anything away from the guys," says forward Katrina McClain. "I love to watch them play myself. But we've been together a lot longer. We're more of a team than they are." So much of a team that their most famous member, Rebecca Lobo, didn't see much playing time, as coach Tara VanDerveer sacrificed a little star power for more speed on the court. "The joy of the party is just being with each other," says Teresa Edwards, 32, the veteran guard who was playing in her fourth Olympics. "It's a family atmosphere...
...could control what I did on the court," she says. "I couldn't control what was happening with my mom." Her mother recovered from the cancer, and the daughter went on to lead her team to a 35-0 season and the national championship in her senior year. Rebecca Lobo is now an Olympian...
...worried about other people's expectations because no one's could be higher than our own," says Lobo. "Ours is to win a gold medal. We feel if we play the best we can, we can achieve that." A gold medal would also help the cause of female hoops in the U.S. Women's pro basketball is actually flourishing in Europe, but in America it is only so much paper, with plans for two new U.S. pro leagues: The American Basketball League will tip off in the fall under the aegis of Reebok, and the Women's National Basketball Association...
...Says Lobo: "What's really exciting is not just the little girls asking for my autograph but the little boys. As I see it, if a little boy asks for my autograph, maybe he'll treat a little girl differently. Maybe he will pick her to play on his basketball team, or pick her for soccer in gym class, and realize that girls can be pretty good athletes...
...University of Connecticut is synonymous with big time in women's college basketball. The Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts has become a post-national championship shrine for the Huskies. Senior point guard Jenn Rizotti's number hangs in one glass display case, Rebecca Lobo's in another. The team's 1995-1996 season opener against Louisianna Tech was nationally televised...