Early Years
Barnes grew up in San Diego, California and attended Mission Bay Senior High School in San Diego. Over the course of her high school career, she amassed 1112 blocks, the most ever recorded by a female high school basketball player, 253 blocks ahead of second place Chris Enger.
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Famous quotes containing the words early and/or years:
“Names on a list, whose faces I do not recall
But they are gone to early death, who late in school
Distinguished the belt feed lever from the belt holding pawl.”
—Richard Eberhart (b. 1904)
“To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.”
—Bernard Baruch (1870–1965)