Having trained at Grupo Deportivo Badia Solé and Sant Francesc de Manresa, Nina Pont broke all the molds when she was just 18 years old. The Manresa native left for the United States in 1985, where she became the first Catalan athlete to play in the university league. "When they told me, I couldn't believe it," she says. Her two seasons at Old Dominion University opened a path that has now become a highway. Every year, more than 300 players from across Spain follow in her footsteps.