Cindy Blodgett is 49 years old, more than 20 years removed from her playing career. She's now the athletic director and girls basketball coach at Lincoln School in Rhode Island, where she just led the program to its first RIIL Division 3 state championship.
But the reminders of her celebrity status in Maine never go away. When Blodgett played in the early years of the WNBA for the Cleveland Rockers, she routinely received flowers sent from a random fan. Even today, Blodgett gets basketball cards sent to her to sign — many from corrections facilities, she notes, and sometimes directly to her home address. The tributes range from flattering to uncomfortably out of bounds for the admittedly introverted star.
"I have routinely been in multiple places where people recognize me, come up and talk to me. Or (I've) been at a restaurant eating and look across the restaurant and see someone taking a photo from afar," Blodgett said.
Blodgett gained arguably the most devoted following of any New England girls hooper ever during her high school and college careers. Even Cooper Flagg, the other phenom from Maine, didn't have multiple books written about him in high school like Blodgett.
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