Mother's Day Gift; Talented Daughter Raised On Basketball, Ready for Yale
New Haven Register › September 18, 2008
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Maybe the osmosis started when Chris Gobrecht was walking the sideline during the 1988-89 season as the coach of the University of Washington women's basketball team. Gobrecht was in her third season with the Huskies and pregnant with her second child, a daughter to be named Madeline on May 3, 1989.
The learning likely continued when Madeline was an infant, when she would happily coo in a rocking cradle while Chris would talk basketball with husband Bob, then the vice president of sales and marketing with the Seattle Mariners.See the full content of this document
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Mother's Day Gift; Talented Daughter Raised On Basketball, Ready for Yale
It continued during the weekend road trips through the Pacific- 10 Conference in college cities such as Pullman, Wash., Corvallis, Ore., and Tucson, Ariz. Toddler Madeline would entertain herself while within earshot as mom talked with her team about the importance of fast breaking against Washington State, penetrating the Oregon zone, or playing tenacious full-court defense against Arizona.
The knowledge wasn't only about basketball. Madeline also learned the importance of education and excelling in t...See the full content of this document
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