MCHS: Olympian Lelei Fonoimoana
by Kevin Cody Lelei Fonoimoana-Moore competed in the Montreal Olympics in 1976, the same year she graduated from Mira Costa High. She brought home a silver medal from Montreal, after swimming the butterfly for the U.S. 4×100 Medley. And she finished seventh in the individual 100 meter butterfly. Her youngest brother Eric credits watching his […]
MCHS: Olympian Mike Bright
by Kevin Cody Mike “Bones” Bright was the first Olympian to have graduated Mira Costa High School, where he was an All American basketball player, and a star volleyball player. Bright graduated in 1955, five years after the high school opened. Bright competed on the USA National Indoor Volleyball team at the 1964 Olympics In […]
Hermosa 2024 Olympians: Budinger’s dream
He left volleyball behind to play in the NBA. But he always intended to return to the sport he loved to chase an Olympic gold. by Mark McDermott Chase Budinger had a tough but enviable choice to make. It was 2006, and his high school days at La Costa Canyon in Carlsbad were coming to […]
MCHS: Olympian Lelei Fonoimoana
by Kevin Cody Lelei Fonoimoana-Moore competed in the Montreal Olympics in 1976, the same year she graduated from Mira Costa High. She brought home a silver medal from Montreal, after swimming the butterfly for the U.S. 4×100 Medley. And she finished seventh in the individual 100 meter butterfly. Her youngest brother Eric credits watching his […]
MCHS: 2024 Olympian Jordan Raney
by Garth Meyer She found out May 30th. The last time, she was just short. “I was 14th out of 13,” said Jordan Raney, of Manhattan Beach, about being cut from the 2021 U.S. Olympic women’s water polo team. This time she made it. She was told the news in an individual meeting with Coach […]
MCHS: 2024 Olympic Triathlete Taylor Spivey
Olympic triathlete Taylor Spivey traces success to JGs by Kevin Cody Among the most heartwarming congratulatory notes Taylor Spivey received after qualifying for the 2024 U.S. Triathlon Olympic Team last month were from her former Junior Lifeguard instructors, and the Junior Lifeguards she taught after she became a Los Angeles County Lifeguard. Spivey credits her […]