A REQUEST FROM STUDENT-ATHLETES
OUR PARENTSDON'T ALWAYSSEE IT YET.
Most of our parents love us — but they didn't grow up in a world where sport built a future. They're not sure it leads anywhere. And honestly, a lot of us aren't sure how to convince them.
You played sport. You built the discipline, resilience and pressure-handling that got you where you are today — in whatever industry. We need you to show us — and our parents — how wide the path forward really is.
BECOME OUR MENTOR →WHY WE'RE ASKING
SPORT IS EVERYWHERE.SO ARE SPORTSPEOPLE.
We're told our sporting identity has a shelf life. That at some point we'll need to put it down and become something else.
Isn't this completely wrong? Don't we all agree?
If you are building a sports club, a team, a brand, or enabling the ecosystem in any way — you are already our champion.
And if you're a banker who played football, you know pressure and split-second decisions. If you're a consultant who trained as an athlete, you know discipline and structured thinking. If you're a retailer who competed, you know resilience, targets, and performing when it counts. If you're a doctor who played team sport, you know communication and trust under stress. If you're an investor who competed, you know risk, preparation, and reading a situation fast.
Sport doesn't prepare you for sport alone. It prepares you for everything.
We're trying to bring together people from every industry — connected by one thing: sport shaped them. So we can learn from you. So our parents can hear it from you — because right now, a lot of them genuinely don't see how sport leads to a future, and we don't have the vocabulary to explain it.
IF YOU WORK HERE, WE NEED YOU
EVERY INDUSTRY.ONE ASK.
We're not just looking for people from the sports industry. We're looking for everyone sport made — across every industry — to mentor us.
HOW YOU CAN HELP
ONE HOUR. ONE STORY. ONE CONNECTION.
01
TELL US YOUR STORY
We want to hear how sport shaped your career — whatever field you're in. A 5-minute conversation or a short written piece. Your story could completely change how a 16-year-old sees their future.
TELL US YOUR STORY →02
MENTOR US
Give us an hour. Talk to a student-athlete trying to figure out how sport and ambition fit together. No formal commitment — just be honest about your path and what it actually took.
MENTOR US →03
TALK TO OUR PARENTS
Help us make the case at home. A note, a call, a coffee with a parent who isn't sure sport belongs in their kid's future. Coming from someone who's lived it, your voice changes the conversation.
TALK TO OUR PARENTS →WHO WE'RE ASKING
YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE IN SPORT TO HELP US.
We're not just asking former professional athletes.
We're asking anyone who played sport seriously at any level — school, college, club, state, national — and who carries those lessons into their professional life today.
You could be:
A fund manager who played cricket. A startup founder who ran track. A lawyer who captained their school team. A teacher who competed in swimming. A designer who played basketball. A doctor who trained in martial arts.
If sport made you who you are, we want to hear from you.
THE FUND MANAGER
Played cricket to state level.
Now manages a ₹500Cr portfolio.
THE STARTUP FOUNDER
Ran track through college.
Now runs a team of 40.
THE LAWYER
Captained school football.
Now argues in court.
THE DOCTOR
Competed in swimming.
Now leads an ICU team.
THE CONSULTANT
State-level badminton.
Now solves problems for Fortune 500s.
THE CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Played basketball seriously.
Now directs global campaigns.
WHY WE'RE ASKING YOU
WE NEED TO SEE THE PATH.
The biggest challenge we face as student-athletes in India isn't a lack of talent. It's a lack of visibility.
We can't see what comes after. We can't see the professionals in every field who look back at their sporting years and say: that is what made me.
When a 16-year-old in Mumbai can talk to a banker in London who played football, or a consultant in Bangalore who ran track, or a filmmaker who competed in swimming — our world gets bigger. So does our parents'.
That's why we're asking. That's why it matters.
WHO'S ASKING
BUILT BY A STUDENT-ATHLETE.
All For Athletes was founded by Rudransh Das — a 16-year-old goalkeeper, Grade 11 student, and Maharashtra Oranje FC player who represents the club at State League level.
He built this platform because he watched too many peers give up on sport under pressure to choose academics. He's asking for mentors because he knows the one he needed at 16 could have come from any industry — not just football.
All For Athletes is starting in Mumbai. Starting with football. But the mission is bigger than one sport or one city.
SAY YES