[8][9] While completing in the 2016 Chess Olympiad, Fronda's endgame win against GM Bela Khotenashvili was pivotal to the Filipina team's upset of Georgia in the second round.
[9][12] The only undefeated player in the round-robin event, she finished with six wins and seven draws, a full point ahead of her nearest competition.
[13] The Philippine News Agency called her 41-move win in a King's Indian Defense against WFM Allaney Jia Doroy a "brilliant final-round victory"[5] although The Rappler quoted Fronda as saying, "I was lucky.
"[14] In August, 2022, Fronda played second board for the Philippine women's Chess Olympiad team.
[15] Known as "Coach Jodi" by her students at the Asean Chess Academy and in De La Salle Santiago Zobel School, Fronda is a licensed FIDE instructor for 2022-2023.