Fundraising Masterclass: Conviction in the Mission

July 17, 2018

Stuart Barden
Vice President, White Oak Global Advisors
Captain, White Oak Warriors

Your team has raised over $55,000 for D10 competitions in San Francisco and New York City. What’s your secret?
I’m a beneficiary of the firm I work for. White Oak is a private credit fund. We work with a lot of law firms. We work with a lot of accounting firms. We work with a boatload of consulting firms. In addition to our San Francisco headquarters, we have a large New York office and satellite offices sprinkled across the country.

I rely on my colleagues to put me… Read More

Dalton Turay: This Is Legit

July 17, 2018

You have a pretty serious athletic background.
I played football over at UC Davis, 2011-2015. I walked on freshman year, after initially playing rugby, and I was super slender, after running a bunch with rugby. I tried out for safety, and all my training was geared toward being quick and light and backpedaling. Then one of the fullbacks on the roster got injured, and they said, you’ll make the team if you give that a shot. I changed my training strategy quickly.

Slowly I noticed that every guy I had walked on with was no longer showing up to practices.… Read More

D10 NYC 2018 Yearbook, Part Two

July 16, 2018

For The D10 NYC 2018 Team Yearbook, click here.

If you've attended or competed in both, you know The D10 NYC Team event and The D10 NYC Individual event have distinct personalities.

The Team event is effervescent with camaraderie and a sense of play. The Individual event vibrates with a more focused determination. Both are celebrations, and both consummate months of dedicated training and fundraising by D10 athletes. But like a proverbial firstborn child, The D10 NYC Individual event gets right down to business.

Undaunted by gray, heavy skies, athletes at the tenth annual D10 NYC broke long-standing records… Read More

D10 NYC 2018 Yearbook

July 15, 2018

For The D10 NYC 2018 Individual Yearbook, click here.

At the tenth annual D10 in June 2018, athletes from firms including JPMorgan Chase & Co., Goldman Sachs, UBS, Morgan Stanley and Bank of America Merrill Lynch combined to raise $1.5 million for pediatric cancer research at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

In the closest team result in D10 history, J's Bulls fended off a huge challenge from newcomers The Training Lab and repeated as D10 NYC Champions.

The Bulls raised almost $57,000 for Memorial Sloan Kettering in 2018, and in so doing, they had maxed out their possible fundraising points before… Read More

Cash Cameron: The True Air of Competition

July 12, 2018

Coming out of Houston’s Memorial High School as a fullback in a power-I offense (“more of a lineman than a running back”), Cash Cameron wasn’t a recruit in demand. He didn’t get deterred.

He walked on at TCU and was told they didn’t even have gear for him. He earned the gear. He got through two-a-days. He made the cut.

Cash cherishes his experience at TCU, learning from Coach Gary Patterson (“a maniac, but a genius”), and learning how to be “a real running back." He's especially thankful to have trained with Don Sommer, TCU’s head strength and conditioning coach… Read More

Women Who Win: Lisa D'Agostino

July 11, 2018

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The D10's Women Who Win series, brought you in collaboration with ADAY, spotlights some of the incredible female athletes who take to The D10's playing field each year.

Meet Lisa D'Agostino of Merrill Lynch.

I can remember when it all started for me. There I was, sitting at my kitchen counter, laptop fired up, wearing sweaty gym clothes, blindly eating ice cream, thoroughly googling everything that was ever written on Laura Placentra, the defending (and, eventually, three-time) D10 NYC champ. To me, she wasn’t the top women's competitor, she was the competitor.

It was 2015 on a Friday night, right after I finished my ceremonial end-of-the-work-week training… Read More

Train With Purpose: Better Squats for a Better Beach Butt

July 9, 2018

Train With Purpose is a series brought to you in partnership with bodybuilding.com.

by Mark Bell
Bodybuilding.com contributor Mark Bell, aka "Smelly" from the documentary feature Bigger, Stronger, Faster, is a champion powerlifter. This post has been slightly adapted from its original form.

We all know how it goes in the squat rack: the weight gets heavier, and your form gets worse. I see this all the time: At heavier weights, the hips don't lower, and the torso bows forward. Heavy squats can also come with caving knees, over-extended necks, and arched spines. Some of you… Read More

Inception: Train like a World Champion

July 2, 2018

In·cep·tion
noun

the establishment or starting point of an institution or activity.

There was moment in your recent past when you made a commitment to use your physical abilities as a catalyst for social change. In doing so, you joined The D10’s broader community of similarly minded individuals. This is a special team, united in the recognition that through the collective efforts of an entire community, we can achieve greatness.

At the moment of inception, you probably had a lot of questions. How do I fundraise? Where will I train? When did they add the Broad Jump? Ooof...the 800 meters?… Read More

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