What was it like, transitioning from Olympic water polo player to Boeing engineer?
It was a bit of a shock. I was going from a very nontraditional work schedule, being outside and working out six hours a day, to being inside in front of a computer. Not wearing a bathing suit six hours a day was a shock. I didn’t have constant sunburns and skin damage anymore. Also, I could eat whatever I wanted as a water polo player, but that changed as I became more sedentary. But I thought there were a lot of similarities, actually, in terms of how teams function and how to motivate the people I worked with. Why did you make business school your next step? At Stanford, I really liked the idea of engineering working on projects, building things. My job after the Olympics, working with Boeing, was a great chance to move into something in the engineering field. I think, though, I just found there that my strengths were more in the management project side of tech projects, not so much going in-depth into sticky engineering problems. I thought that an MBA would probably be the next ste
