Submitted by Ben Woolf, Project Manager, University of Colorado Real Estate Foundation
What is a better way to spend a Saturday morning than competing in field games against your favorite real estate professionals? After participating in the 18th annual Brokers Benefiting Kids event I can’t think of one, however my aching body may disagree. On a beautiful Saturday morning a team of eight NAIOP Developing Leaders gathered at Inverness Business Park to join hundreds of other commercial real estate professionals in a morning of fun with a good purpose behind it. While the team didn’t have customized shirts or tryouts, there was hope amongst the members of victory as we all went through introductions by the registration table. After a resounding pummeling in volleyball by a CBRE team filled with semi-professional volleyball spikers, your NAIOP DL’s figured a group cocktail could help improve form. Heading into Bocci Ball and Horseshoes there was hope, until Crimson Services won Bocci Ball on a last second point and played Horseshoes as if they invented the game. Two events down and two resounding losses. Surely the obstacle course would be a place to regain the early morning swagger.
Obviously going through twice as suggested by the younger, peppier, Fairbairn Commercial team would be easy to do. But the jumpy castle obstacle course would prove too exhausting and a third loss was at hand. Heading into Ultimate Frisbee I think the whole team needed a pick me up, and that came in the form of Inverness Properties not showing up to play, so a forfeit was just what the doctor ordered. In the searing heat we were taught how to play by a group of the Denver 20/30 hosts. It was a fun match, but exhausting. Our final event was basketball and we paired up well against Thomas Niewohner’s LandCorp gang. Again it would seem that despite having 6’5” Adam “The Tower” Faleck, the other team had a ringer who led the opposition to victory. Five events down and I don’t think any of us expected the amount of energy expended throughout the day. We all dispersed to go find a nice nap.
At the end of the day your brave Developing Leaders were defeated on paper but not in spirit. We had a great day getting to know each other and reliving our youth on the sporting field. Thank you to NAIOP for sponsoring our participation in BBK. Next year we hope to do better in the results column and keep up the good spirited competition in the name of charity. BBK was a lot of fun and I hope to see many new faces next year…we need more people so that people can get a rest between events!
Thank you to this year’s NAIOP DL team, pictured here from left to right: Adam Faleck, Bryan Reid, T. Burke Larson, Alyssa Clarke, Ben Woolf and Blake Holcomb.
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