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DIVER BOUDIA
& GOLFER GULYANAMITTA SELECTED PURDUE ATHLETES OF THE YEAR
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind.– Junior diver David Boudia and senior golfer
Numa Gulyanamitta have been named Purdue's Athletes of the Year for the
2010-11 school year. They
were selected by a vote of athletics department administrators from a
pool of candidates made up
of each sport's Most Valuable Player or similar designee.
Boudia and Gulyanamitta will now represent the Boilermakers in the
voting for the Big Ten Conference Athlete of the Year awards. Boudia is
in the running for the Big Ten
Jesse Owens Athlete of the Year award, and Gulyanamitta is up for the
Big Ten Suzy Favor Athlete of the
Year award. The awards will be voted on by a panel of conference media
and announced on the Big Ten
Network at 7:30 p.m. ET on Monday, June 20.
Boudia was selected as Purdue’s male winner for the third year in
a row, becoming the first Boiler student-athlete to accomplish the feat
since the award was created in
1982. A golfer has been the women’s honoree each of the last four
years. In 2009, Maria
Hernandez became the first golfer to win the Big Ten Suzy Favor Athlete
of the Year award.
Boudia was selected the NCAA Diver of the Year by the Collegiate
Swimming Coaches Association of America for the third year in a row. He
finished his career with six
NCAA national titles, one shy of the Troy Dumais’ all-time
record, after winning a pair at each of his
three appearances at the national championship meet. Boudia capped his
college career this season by
sweeping the 1-meter and 3-meter springboard diving titles for the
second year in a row. He was also
runner-up in the platform at the 2011 national championship meet in
Minneapolis, making him a nine-time
All-American.
Boudia has opted to forego his final season of collegiate eligibility
to focus on training for the 2012 Olympic Games in London. In July, he
will represent USA Diving at the
2011 World Championships in China. He won USA Diving national titles in
the platform and
synchronized platform in February. Since the end of the college season,
he has medaled three times at
international competitions.
At the 2011 Big Ten Championships, Boudia swept the three diving events
for the second time in his career. He became the first athlete to
accomplish that feat twice since
platform diving was added to the meet in 1988. Boudia was named Big Ten
Diver of the Championships and Diver of the Year for the third
consecutive year. He finished his college career with eight Big Ten
diving titles.
Boudia won 30 of the 31 events he entered during the 2010-11 school
year. He was named Big Ten Diver of the Week a conference-record nine
times, increasing his career mark
of weekly honors to 20. Gulyanamitta capped off an outstanding
collegiate career with a stellar
senior season that has culminated in the Purdue Female Athlete of the
Year award. The Rayong,
Thailand, native was named second team All-American by both the
National Golf Coaches’
Association and Golfweek after helping the Boilermakers to a runner-up
finish at the2011 NCAA Championships.
Gulyanamitta tied for eighth individually at the NCAA finals and
finished the season with a No. 16
national ranking.
The 2011 Big Ten Player of the Year won two individual titles this
season, including the Big Ten medal while also earning the Mary Fossum
Award as the Big Ten golfer with the
low season stroke average to par on the season. She averaged a
conference-best 72.55 strokes per
round, the best of her career. Gulyanamitta earned first team All-Big
Ten for the fourth time, was
named to the Big Ten All- Championships Team and picked up her fourth
career Big Ten Golfer of
the Week honor this spring. She finished in the top 10 in nine of 12
tournaments this season, never
finishing lower than a tie for 31st and shot even par or below a
team-best 19 times.
Gulyanamitta is part of a senior class that won three Big Ten
championships, combined for two Big Ten medals and in four NCAA
Championships appearances finished fourth,
10th, first and second. She played in every tournament all four years
as a Boilermaker. Gulyanamitta
graduated in May with a degree in aviation management and plans to
continue her golf career on the
professional level. She has qualified for the U.S. Women’s Open
for the second-consecutive year and
will compete in the LPGA major championship at the Broadmoor East
Course in Colorado Springs, Colo.,
from July 7 to 10.
Recent Purdue Athlete of
the Year Winners
*Big Ten Suzy Favor Athlete of the Year award winner
2011
Male: David Boudia, Diving
Female: Numa Gulyanamitta, Golf
2010
Male: David Boudia, Diving
Female: Maude-Aimee LeBlanc, Golf
2009
Male: David Boudia, Diving
Female: Maria Hernandez, Golf*
2008
Male: Dustin Keller, Football
Female: Maria Hernandez, Golf
2007
Male: Anthony Spencer, Football
Female: Amanda Miller, Diving
2006
Male: Giordan Pogioli, Swimming
Female: Onnarin Sattayabanphot, Golf
2005
Male: Taylor Stubblefield, Football
Female: Carrie McCambridge, Diving
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