CalHOPE Courage Award

About Hartford HealthCare

With 30,000 colleagues and total operating revenue of $4.3 billion, Hartford HealthCare has cultivated a strong, unified culture of accountability and innovation. Its care-delivery system, with more than 360 locations serving 185 towns and cities, includes two tertiary-level teaching hospitals, an acute-care community teaching hospital, an acute-care hospital and trauma center, three community hospitals, the state’s most extensive behavioral health network, a large multispecialty physician group, a clinical care organization, a regional home care system, an array of senior care services, and a large physical therapy and rehabilitation network.

Hartford HealthCare’s unique, system-wide Institute Model offers a single, high standard of care in crucial specialties at hospital and ambulatory sites across Connecticut. The institutes include: Cancer, Heart and Vascular, Ayer Neuroscience, Orthopedics and Tallwood Urology.

www.hartfordhealthcare.org 

About CoSIDA (College Sports Information Directors of America)

CoSIDA was founded in 1957 and is a 3,000+ member national organization comprised of the sports public relations, media relations and communications/information professionals throughout all levels of collegiate athletics in the United States and Canada.  The organization is the second oldest management association in intercollegiate athletics.

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About Associated Press

The Associated Press is the essential global news network, delivering fast, unbiased news from every corner of the world to all media platforms and formats. Founded in 1846, AP today is the most trusted source of independent news and information. On any given day, more than half the world’s population sees news from AP.

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About Rebecca Lobo

As the Hartford HealthCare Courage Award Ambassador, Ms. Lobo will attend award ceremonies with several of the honorees and help raise awareness for their inspiring stories of courage. In 1995, she led the University of Connecticut to its first National Championship and was named NCAA Women’s Basketball Player of the Year and AP Female Athlete of the Year and the ESPY Award winner for Outstanding Female Athlete. A year later, she won a gold medal as the youngest member of the U.S. Women’s Olympic Basketball Team, before embarking on a successful seven-year WNBA career with the New York Liberty.

Ms. Lobo retired in 2003 and was inducted into the National Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 2010 and the Naismith National Basketball Hall of Fame in 2017. Her #50 jersey was retired by UConn earlier this year. A member of the CoSIDA Academic All-America Hall of Fame, she has served as on the Board of Directors for Hartford Hospital, where she was born. Ms. Lobo currently works as a television analyst, author and motivational speaker and lives in Connecticut with her husband and their four children.