Lelei Alofa FONOIMOANA

LeLei Fonoimoana competed at the 1976 Olympics as a butterfly swimmer, and then entered Brigham Young University that fall. She earned 11 All-American honors at BYU, mostly in butterfly but also in IM. As a senior, she was selected Outstanding Senior Female Athlete by the Cougar Club and was named to the AIAW All-Region Team. She continued to compete through 1980 but retired after that year. Fonoimoana later worked as a swim coach at UCLA, a Los Angeles County lifeguard, a therapist, and a dance instructor.