May 25, 2007

LAS VEGAS -

Editor's Note - Cheryl recently passed away in Reno on July 27. The Lady Rebels and the UNLV athletics department will greatly miss her.

Former UNLV women's basketball player Cheryl Kosewicz is one of 16 contestants that will be competing for a half a million dollar prize on the new CBS reality show "Pirate Master", which will have its season premiere next week on Thursday, May 31.

Kosewicz played on the Lady Rebels in the 1990-91 and 1991-92 seasons, and helped them to the Big West championships and a NCAA Tournament appearance in 1991. After spending four years as a color analyst for the Lady Rebels radio broadcast team, she earned her law degree from Lewis and Clark College in 2000 and became a deputy prosecutor with the Clark County DA's office while also returning to the radio crew for UNLV games from the 1999-00 season up to 2006-07. This past fall she moved to Reno where she is a Deputy District Attorney.

"Pirate Master" is the new reality show from Mark Burnett, producer of CBS's Survivor. Over the course of 33 days, the 16 pirates will live aboard a massive 179-foot pirate ship. Each week, these buccaneers will go on extraordinary expeditions and decipher clues along the way. Gold coins - real money that the pirates can take with them beyond the show - will be awarded after each treasure hunt, but only to some, while one pirate will come out with the largest prize at the end, worth $500,000, and the title of Pirate Master.