A star at Livermore Falls High School, Cyndi led the Andies to four straight Mountain Valley Conference titles, scoring over 1000 points during her career. After enrolling at Pratt Institute in NYC, she decided to tryout for the basketball team. She made the team and quickly made headlines around the world as the first woman to play on a men’s NCAA varsity team. Bona appeared in Sports Illustrated and was featured on the “CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite.”