Kara Wolters - Personal

Personal

Wolters was born the youngest child of Liz and William Wolters and grew up in a basketball family. Her mother, Liz, once scored 50 points in one game at Wellesley High, more than any Massachusetts high school player before. Her father, William, is in the Boston College Hall of Fame and played professional basketball for the Seattle SuperSonics in the NBA. He was born in West Germany and moved to America with his family at 11 years old. He later became an insurance lawyer in Boston. Kara has always worn uniform number 52, the same number as her father, as a tribute.

Wolters has stated she has always been tall and was already 6’3" in eighth grade and she continued to grow rapidly during her career at Holliston High School. She still retains the schools scoring, rebounding and blocked shots record.

Her brother Ray played basketball at the University of Rhode Island, Assumption College and later Eastern Connecticut State University. She has two older sisters: Kristen who also played college basketball at Rhode Island, and Katie.

When Katie was six, a tumor was discovered in her brain. The growth was so large and tangled up in her brain stem that complete removal was not possible. Because of the subsequent surgery and treatment with radiation, she developed short-term memory loss and lost some of her sense of balance, and sometimes has seizures that prevent her from driving. Kara would later form the "Kara Kares Foundation" in 1998, which supports brain tumor research. Katie died in 2004 as a result of her brain tumor.

Wolters married Sean Drinan, a banking executive, in November 2004 and currently works as a color commentator during University of Connecticut women's basketball games with play-by-play announcer Bob Joyce. The games can be heard on the UConn Radio Network, whose flagship station is WTIC (AM). Her first daughter, Sydney Elizabeth, was born on March 8, 2007.