USD 249 Frontenac Schools Hall of Fame

CARLA BARTO

Inducted 2024

Ms. Barto graduated from FHS in 1979. She was considered one of the top basketball players in the entire state of Kansas, earning multiple all-state honors for her play on the FHS 1979 undefeated state championship team that was inducted into the FHS Hall of Fame in 2023. 

She had one of the most complete career stat lines in Kansas girls’ high school basketball history as she scored 1,635 points, grabbed 2,007 rebounds and had 798 career assists. Frontenac boasted 107 wins with only 3 losses during Carla’s basketball tenure, never losing a league game in all four years. 

Ms. Barto was named All CNC 1st Team three times. FHS also took state runner-up in a 27-1 season during her junior year. Carla Barto has also been an inductee of the KBCA Hall of Fame twice, both as an individual (2020) and as a team. 

Carla would go on to be a standout at Pittsburg State University garnering recognition as all-time leading rebounder at the time of her graduation in 1983.