After 10 years on the international fencing circuit, Daria Schneider, the five-time US Fencing National Team member knew the pain in her hip was no longer the kind to be training and competing through. She came to learn she had a torn labrum, damaged cartilage, and osteoarthritis. Despite the constant pain and increased damage she was doing with every lunge and change of direction, Schneider was battling through a series of qualifying tournaments for the 2016 Rio Olympics.

As the pain in her hip continued to increase, so too did the voice in her head suggesting that her time as a professional athlete was coming to an end. When the final World Cup of Olympic Qualification was over and reality set in that she had come up just short of making the U.S. Olympic Team, the U.S. National Fencing Champion and Columbia University Hall of Famer started contemplating the future.

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