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Where's That Tiger: Gretchen Sheirr, President of Business Operations, Houston Rockets

Hey Fightin' Podcast Network: The Official Podcast Network of LSU Sports

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4.9537 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Gretchen Sheirr, President of Business Operations for the Houston Rockets, joins Leighann Westfall and Justin Vincent on this week's edition of Where's That Tiger.

Sheirr, a former diver at LSU, looks back at her favorite moments at LSU, and walks listeners through her day-to-day running an NBA organization.

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0:00.0

Hi everyone, welcome back for another episode of Where's That Tiger podcast.

0:12.2

I'm your host, Leanne Westfall. We're back with Justin Vincent and special guests, Gretchen Scheer,

0:18.3

former women's diver, and now just sports business professional president of the Houston Rockets.

0:25.4

Welcome.

0:25.9

Thank you.

0:26.4

Thanks for having me.

0:27.2

It's fun to be back.

0:28.7

Looks different.

0:29.7

Yeah.

0:30.3

A few things different.

0:32.5

A whole lot different.

0:33.9

We like to kind of start it off with your story and how you got to LSU. So tell us a little bit

0:39.3

about your story to LSU. Yeah. So my, I was a, I was a gymnast growing up. I grew up outside of,

0:46.5

outside of Houston, and I always wanted to come to LSU and be a gymnast. And then my freshman year,

0:52.9

I decided that was not a sport I wanted to do anymore.

0:57.0

And I transitioned into diving my sophomore year in college, so summer before my sophomore year.

1:02.0

So I was a late, I started late, but the transition, like I knew how to flip, I knew how to twist,

1:07.0

so that happened pretty quickly.

1:09.0

So I didn't really start getting recruited until the back half of my senior year, which now that I have kids in high school and I'm

1:15.8

realizing that process, how crazy that was of how late. And so, yeah, so I looked at the two schools

1:24.2

that recruited me the most were Alabama and LSU. No.

1:29.7

And so I should not say this.

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