MIRA COSTA OLYMPIAN: Barbra Fontana remembers her unlikely path to the 1996 Olympics

by Brianna SmithBarbra Fontana made her way to Atlanta to compete in the Olympics in 1996 as a member of Team USA’s very first beach volleyball team. What made her journey particularly unlikely was that only a few years earlier she’d thought her competitive volleyball days were over. Fontana was a star player at Mira Costa before graduating in 1983. She was a four-year starter playing volleyball at Stanford University, where her teams made the NCAA Final Four each year. She star