Market: San Francisco 

Athlete: Hannah Farr, TPG Capital

Most athletes remember their last college game. Mine happened in the 2015 Lacrosse NCAA tournament at UNC in a game where my Stanford team was clearly favored to win. I remember walking off the field with 10-minutes left to play because of a penalty I received and feeling the overwhelming impact of those final moments on the field.

Obviously I was devastated by the loss. But it wasn’t until about a year into my job as an Analyst at TPG Capital that I realized that the impact of finishing a college athletic career stays with you for longer than the final time walking off the field. For my entire life, and most importantly for four-years at Stanford, I played on both soccer and lacrosse teams that I spent time with almost every day, working towards a common goal and sharing incredible team-building experiences along the way. One year later, I found myself still adapting to the day-to-day grind as an analyst just starting work, while doing anything I could to run or lift or play pick up sports, most of the time by myself.

Over the last few months, The D10 showed me that the feeling of camaraderie and group training that I had only ever felt on the field in fact exists outside the confines of competitive collegiate / professional sports teams. I remember a few days into my job one of The D10 Competitor Board Members, Justin Nunez, asked me if I had brought my training stuff to work that day. Good thing my running shoes live under my desk. He introduced me to the high interval burpee / kettlebell swing ladder workout that he had invented in the small weight room we have in our office. He also told me about this competition called The D10 Decathlon. Over the next few months, we started to run the California St. hills in the San Francisco Financial District, find the closest stairs, or do circuits in that gym. Overtime we pulled in more and more of our colleagues to join the afternoon workouts in preparation for this event.

As we got closer to the event, it seemed like the entire Firm was rooting for the TPG D10 individual / team participants. TPG, as a Firm, raised $66,000 for an amazing cause. Colleagues of all levels that I had worked with on small or large projects donated in my name or sent me “good luck” emails. On the last Saturday before the event, 6 of my colleagues met up at the nearby Roark the gym where The D10 was hosting exclusive training sessions for all The D10 athletes to prepare for the event together.

The same overwhelming sense of teamwork continued into the actual day of the event and has stayed with our group beyond the competition. The D10 is a unique event that demonstrated to me in an invaluable way that my colleagues are also my teammates and I look forward to competing again in the future.