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# Dissinger Reed partner Tanner Gardner of Rice University featured on Athletic Director U!

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1.Question Podcast’s[@TaiMBrown](https://d1ticker.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2cf324200cd8a891c384a4e81&id=e538b0deeb&e=a394e37bea) caught up with Rice Senior Assoc. AD/COO Gardner to discuss how a background in the corporate consulting world has translated to college athletics. Gardner joined the Owls back in 2014 after a stint with Boston Consulting Group & was an All-American Wrestling student-athlete during his undergrad days at Harvard.

Gardner says, “It made a lot of business sense to bring strong corporate business practices to college athletics. \[…\] College athletics changed my life so to have the opportunity to bring my skills to this industry for the purposes of changing Student-Athletes lives is really a great situation.”

[Listen to the Podcast here](https://athleticdirectoru.com/audio/tanner-gardner-rice-1question/?utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=TannerGardner&utm_source=adu).

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