Doing it for the kids: C4C sports weekend (2 of 2)

Complimenting the auction weekend is a sporting weekend, where 7 other business schools on the west coast (such as UCLA from LA, and Berkeley nearby, etc) - who have done the same fundraising, volunteering etc - stroll out to Stanford to compete in over 20 different sports over the course of three days. It's a huge operation, with well over 1000 people (yes, all MBAs! scary) streaming in.

There were the traditional type sports: soccer (World cup! of sorts), basketball and the like ... to new favorites: like DODGEBALL.



I tried my hand at trying to get into the 22-strong Stanford team (yes, we had tryouts) but found myself extraordinrily sportingly inferior to many of my classmates, who could throw and dodge like nothing else. And yes, my name got "left off" the team list ... oh well.



It was a fantastic weekend. I took part in the (extremely painful) 5K run around the local hills, as well as men's volleyball B (which we lost) and mixed soccer (which we won ... due to the fact that we had a girl on the time who was part of the US soccer team (!), and that I played a "supporting" role ...)

And Stanford won! Yaaaay - well, the sporting bit anyway. We don't talk about the other parts ...