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Student-athletes, coaches and alumni impact the world, again and again and again. It’s a legacy that spans generations and starts with the same spirit of persistence that drives the entire university forward.  

Get to know the stories behind the trophies through interviews filled with direct insight. Conversations with coaches, questions for student-athletes, first-hand accounts of Purdue’s most memorable games: fan favorites are found here.

Purdue’s senior stalwarts aim for the mountaintop

Top-ranked Purdue had just taken care of business against overmatched Rutgers at the start of December, and the local media — the New Jersey media — was buzzing immediately afterward, waiting for the visiting coach to arrive at the postgame press

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Purdue basketball coach Gene Keady in the locker room

Fierce rivalries and a Final Four: Purdue sports in the ’80s

Check out this gallery of 1980s images of Purdue athletics

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Blough, Kerrigan rising as NFL coaches

Every day during the season, without fail. David Blough pulls into the parking lot outside the Washington Commanders facility at 5:30 a.m., and, on the dot, here comes Ryan Kerrigan pulling into another parking space. Kerrigan’s in Year 4 as

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Dave Shondell

podcast | Education

Podcast Ep. 65: In-depth with Purdue Women’s Volleyball Head Coach Dave Shondell

In this episode of “This Is Purdue,” we’re talking to Dave Shondell, Purdue University’s Art and Connie Euler Women’s Volleyball Head Coach. From growing up immersed in volleyball with his dad and brothers, to leading teams at the high school…
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Akin Ayodele

podcast | Experience

Podcast Ep. 60: Former NFL Player Akin Ayodele on How a Purdue Scholarship Changed His Life

In this episode of “This Is Purdue,” we’re talking to Akin Ayodele, former Purdue football defensive end, co-captain of the 2001 Rose Bowl team and NFL linebacker. Akin, a Texas native, shares how former Purdue football head coach Joe Tiller’s…
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Aidan O’Connell is the Boilermakers’ starting quarterback.

article | Experience

Faith in the process

Aidan O’Connell enters the 2022 season as the Boilermakers’ starting quarterback and may have a professional career in his future.

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Purdue football players Mike Phipps and Don Kiepert

podcast | Experience

Podcast Ep. 57: Boilermaker Bond: Celebrating 50+ Years of Purdue Friendship

In this episode of “This Is Purdue,” we’re talking to former Purdue football players Mike Phipps and Don Kiepert, who played on the iconic late 1960s team under Coach Jack Mollenkopf. This quarterback duo friendship started at Purdue, and the…
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Anthrop Family

podcast | Experience

Podcast Ep. 56: Boilermakers for Life: The Anthrop Family Legacy

In this episode of “This Is Purdue,” we’re highlighting the story of the Anthrop family, a Purdue Athletics legacy from West Lafayette, Indiana. If you’re a Purdue sports fan, you’ve probably heard the name Anthrop. Brothers Dru, Danny and Jackson…
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Gene Keady

podcast | Experience

Podcast Ep. 53: In-depth with Purdue Basketball Icon Coach Gene Keady

In this episode of “This Is Purdue,” we’re talking to Purdue basketball icon Coach Gene Keady. It’s prime time for college basketball season and March Madness is officially here. What better way to celebrate than to listen to our episode…
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video | Athletics

STEP INSIDE: Paint Crew | The Official Sixth Man of Purdue Basketball

Meet the Paint Crew and follow the small steps of students as they find their fit within one of Purdue’s largest student organizations.   The official student section of Purdue Men’s Basketball, the Paint Crew is 2,800 strong and known everywhere…
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podcast | Experience

Podcast Ep. 51: In-depth with Purdue Women’s Basketball Head Coach Katie Gearlds

In this episode of “This Is Purdue,” we’re talking to Katie Gearlds, the first-year Purdue women’s basketball head coach. As an Indiana native and former Purdue player, Coach Gearlds describes what it feels like to have her dream job and…
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article | Experience

Purdue alumna, a U.S. athletic trainer, savors second chance to participate in her first Olympics

Anne Hinley landed her current job with US Speedskating in 2021 after working with the Chinese team prior to the COVID-19 pandemic As a Purdue student, Anne Hinley felt awkward about revealing to athletic training classmates and colleagues that her…
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article | Experience

Purdue baseball team hopes Intel partnership will help Boilermakers become ‘the fastest show on dirt’

Purdue is nation’s first college baseball program to make use of Intel’s innovative 3DAT human performance technology Purdue’s baseball team aims to be “the fastest show on dirt.” A partnership with Intel is helping the Boilermakers turn that aspirational motto…
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article | Athletics

Old Oaken Bucket Game

Each year Purdue battles Indiana University in November. During this rivalry game, each side seeks to claim the iconic Old Oaken Bucket — one of the oldest football trophies in the nation. In 1925, Chicago alumni groups of both Purdue…
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A Purdue golf ball on a golf course.

article | Athletics

Sam Allen and his family’s generous gift to Purdue Golf

Sam Allen and his wife, Marsha, decided to bestow the largest gift for a facility in Purdue Athletics history.

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