Kristin Folkl

Kristin Just Folkl (born December 19, 1975) is an American former volleyball player and collegiate and professional women's basketball player. She now goes by her married name of Kristin Folkl-Kaburakis. As a volleyball player she was part of the United States National Team.

Kristin Folkl-Kaburakis

Personal information
Born	(1975-12-19) December 19, 1975 (age 48) St. Louis, Missouri
Listed height	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Career information
High school	St. Joseph's Academy (St. Louis)
College	Stanford (1994–1998)
Position	Forward
Career history
1999–2000	Minnesota Lynx
2001–2002	Portland Fire
Career highlights and awards
Kodak All-American (1998) Second-team All-American – AP (1998) All-American – USBWA (1998) All Pac-10 (1998)
Stats at Basketball Reference

Early life and college

She played basketball and volleyball at St. Joseph's Academy in her hometown of St. Louis, Missouri, leading both of her sports teams to state championships each year in which she played. Folkl was named a High School All-American by the WBCA.^[1] She participated in the WBCA High School All-America Game in 1994, scoring twenty-three points.^[2]

From 1994 until 1998, Folkl attended Stanford University and starred on their women's basketball and volleyball programs.

While at Stanford, she was a four-time volleyball All-American, a basketball all-American as a senior, an All Pac-10 member, and a two-sport academic all-American. She appeared in a total of six Final Fours (four in volleyball and two in basketball) and won three national championships in volleyball. In her senior year, she was a first team All-American in both sports and was named the GTE Academic Player of the Year. She was also a participant on the USA Women's National Volleyball Team, and was a first-alternate at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

In 1998, she won the Honda Sports Award as the nation's best female collegiate volleyball player.^[3][4]

Folkl graduated from Stanford in 1998 with a degree in economics. She has been inducted into Stanford University's Hall of Fame.

WNBA and overseas basketball career

She began her professional career with the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) playing for the Minnesota Lynx after the team drafted her during the 1999 WNBA draft. She was traded to the Portland Fire in 2000 to become a part of the expansion season Portland team.

She also played professional basketball overseas for teams in Australia, Switzerland, and Greece.

Basketball career statistics

Legend

GP	Games played	GS	Games started	MPG	Minutes per game	RPG	Rebounds per game
APG	Assists per game	SPG	Steals per game	BPG	Blocks per game	PPG	Points per game
TO	Turnovers per game	FG%	Field-goal percentage	3P%	3-point field-goal percentage	FT%	Free-throw percentage
Bold	Career best	°	League leader

WNBA

Regular season

Year	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TO	PPG
1999	Minnesota	32	1	16.2	.479	.143	.538	3.6	0.7	0.4	0.4	0.7	4.9
2000	Minnesota	32	20	26.4	.450	.211	.702	4.8	2.1	0.7	0.7	1.6	7.6
2001	Portland	32	31	26.9	.428	.417	.825	7.7	1.4	0.6	1.1	1.2	5.6
2002	Portland	32	4	18.8	.492	.000	.886	4.6	1.0	0.6	0.5	1.0	4.8
Career	4 years, 2 teams	128	56	22.1	.459	.229	.726	5.2	1.3	0.6	0.7	1.1	5.7

College

Year	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TO	PPG
1994–95	Stanford	24	-	-	56.2	50.0	69.1	5.5	2.1	0.8	0.7	-	9.5
1995–96	Stanford	Did not play
1996–97	Stanford	10	-	-	70.7	0.0	58.1	8.2	2.1	1.2	1.1	-	10.7
1997–98	Stanford	18	-	-	69.5	0.0	70.1	9.2	1.3	1.1	0.7	-	18.9
Career		52	-	-	64.4	44.4	67.8	7.3	1.8	1.0	0.8	-	13.0
Statistics retrieved from Sports-Reference.[5]

Life after basketball

After her retirement from the WNBA, she returned to her hometown of St. Louis and served as a development officer for the Institute for Science and Health.

Since 2004, she has been serving as the director for development on the St. Louis Sports Commission, a privately funded non-profit organization. Her duties include directing the revenue generation and fundraising efforts for the commission as well its affiliated St. Louis Sports Foundation. She also coordinates the commission's partnership and membership programs.

Folkl is married to Tassos Kaburakis, an attorney and a professor in sport law and management at Saint Louis University.

According to an article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, she gave birth to her first child, Ian Nicholas, on August 29, 2006.

Notes

1. "Past WBCA HS Coaches' All-America Teams". Women's Basketball Coaches Association. Archived from the original on July 15, 2014. Retrieved July 1, 2014.
2. "WBCA High School All-America Game Box Scores". Women's Basketball Coaches Association. Archived from the original on July 15, 2014. Retrieved June 29, 2014.
3. "Kristin Folkl - Nomos LLC – Sport Business - Sport Scholarships in the US". www.nomosllc.com. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
4. "Volleyball". CWSA. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
5. "Kristin Folkl College Stats". Sports-Reference. Retrieved April 11, 2024.