Kristin Folkl

American basketball and volleyball player
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.

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

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.

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.