UConn Greats Rebecca Lobo and Jen Rizzotti Reunite to Coach Sons' AAU Team

UConn Greats Rebecca Lobo and Jen Rizzotti Reunite to Coach Sons’ AAU Team

Rebecca Lobo had just completed Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever, broadcast on TV on TV via the New York Liberty on TV via the New York Liberty, to return to Connecticut.

The next day she had another game – and she trained in this. Lobo trains her son Thomas since he was in seventh grade in his Aau team. This team, CT Force, played on the second day of a tournament in Springfield, Massachusetts, near the Hall of Fam.

But even if travel delays prevented them from getting there, Lobo was not concerned. She knew that Jen Rizzotti would be.

The two stars from Uconn’s basketball team of women from 1995 of the women’s championship have returned to Connecticut since Rizzotti in 2021 and was looking for an Aau team for their son Conor.

“It was a great time because we were super tight in college and after the college, and when she went to DC, we lost a little contact,” said Lobo. “Now we see ourselves through spring and autumn.”

It is difficult to miss and style a lot of the selfless game, who have learned the sizes of the huskies in their time under Geno Auriemma and Chris Dailey, who have just completed their 40th year at school. Lobo and Rizzotti brought this into the team of their boys.

Lobo laughed at the idea that this couple of Hall of Fame player – Lobo was admitted to the Naishith Basketball Hall of Fame 2017, while Rizzotti gained access to the basketball Hall of Fame of women in 2013.

After a game in the boy play, when an official made a call to which she did not agree, the former point Guard said something to him. When she went away, the referee warned her and said that he heard what she murmured in her breath and threw it, which was pulling a giggle from Rizzotti.

Rebecca Lobo was included in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 2017, while her former teammate Jen Rizzotti was taken into the Basketball Hall of Fame of women (photo by M. Anthony Nesmith/Icon Sportswire about Getty Images)

When she returned to Connecticut, she handed over the clipboard to Rizzotti, was a child’s play for Lobo. Rizzotti was head coach in Hartford and George Washington for two decades before he came to the sun.

“One thing I am not is stupid. And I think I know basketball pretty well,” said Lobo. “I haven’t trained for more than 20 years. It is incredible what she does with these children. Because it is in exercises, not just game strategy where she is elite.”

In addition to the coach on the bench, Lobo considered that their role in front of the square is to tell the children that they should put their phones away when they are for dinner – a Dailey feature.

The coach of her son’s team has allowed Rizzotti to spend more time with him.

“If we were at home, he would want to hang around with his friends or he would sleep in his room,” said Rizzotti. “We have a lot of time together in the car. We hang out after the games and have meals together. It is time that I will always appreciate and I will never have with him again.”

Rizzotti said her son would be angry with her and talk back, but she saw how much cooperation meant for his game and her relationship.

“She knows what she is talking about and it feels great that I go out there and listen to my trainer and know that she is always right,” said Conor. “So it’s great to play with these boys and play under them because we just work together so well.”

Your team won the tournament game relatively easily this Sunday. Lobo graciously took photos between games with players of the girls’ Aau teams and spoke to players and parents on the side of the boys. That is the norm at these tournaments.

Lobo remembered that he had been for a tournament in Atlantic City and that a group of boys on the promenade came to a photo. One of them was wearing a Clark jersey. Before she took the photos, she asked her to name a few other WNBA players, and they committed themselves and rattled the stars of the women’s league.

Rizzotti’s has been spent as a trainer for years, but since 2021 she has been the President of the Connecticut Sun of the WNBA. (Photo by Erica Denhoff/Icon Sportswire about Getty Images)

“I thought that’s amazing,” she said.

The championship game – one of many titles that the team won – gave Rizzotti the chance to train against another female head coach, a rarity in the boys’ Aau basketball. Rizzotti had seen some trainers on the edge of this tournament on the edge, but had not encountered a head coach until the final.

Unfortunately, she saw the ego of some male coaches in the way at tournaments.

“There are not many men who want to lose against a woman standing on the other side line, and things are said or done that they might not do in other games,” said Rizzotti. “If you are up to date like five or six points, you would start with seven or eight minutes because there is no gunfire and you don’t want to lose against us.”

Rizzotti said that she treated this by going to Halfcourt and looking something that she was trying to do the players better.

“How, like seven minutes before the end?” Said Rizzotti. “The parents hear me and I think: ‘Do you pay that?'”

Both Lobo and Rizzotti said they will be sad when this is over in a few weeks. There is still a tournament in the area, then a trip to Myrtle Beach to close the season. Nobody plans to train another boy’s Aau team if this happens.

“I will miss it, only very, really miss it,” said Lobo. “This is the end. I am not really interested in training another team that my son doesn’t have.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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