WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Basketball player Léony Boudreau and Swimmer Gabi Gomez Treig – multi-year Academic All-Big Ten honorees that graduated in May – have been selected as Purdue Athletics' recipients of the annual Big Ten postgraduate scholarships for the 2020-21 school year.
Boudreau (Montréal, Canada) and Gomez Treig (Barcelona, Spain) will each receive a $7,500 scholarship for their continuing education.
Boudreau graduated with a 3.95 grade-point average as a biomedical engineering major. As a well-rounded scholar who speaks four different languages, she continues to explore her options for graduate school, both in the United States and aboard. In November, she was a finalist for a Rhodes Scholarship, a postgraduate award for students interested in studying at the University of Oxford in England.
Gomez Treig graduated with a 3.83 GPA as a double major in finance and accounting, including a data analytics concentration in finance. He plans to work for a year as a financial data analyst at an anesthesia provider as he navigates the application process for graduate school. He highlighted three Ivy League universities that are among his top choices, pursuing a master's in business administration.
Since the Big Ten introduced the two postgraduate scholarships awarded to every institution at the end of the 2012-13 school year, Gomez Treig is the eighth Purdue swimmer to be selected as a recipient. Boudreau is the third basketball player, including second from the women's program.
Each Big Ten institution developed its own on-campus selection process when awarding the scholarship. Student-athletes must have maintained at least a 3.2 GPA, demonstrated leadership qualities, served as an excellent role model and intended to continue their academic work beyond their bachelor's degree at a graduate degree program.
The scholarship will be used to pay expenses of the student's postgraduate education to include such related activities as research and teaching, as well as other expenses such as tuition, fees, room and board, required course-related supplies and books.
Around the Big Ten, 19 different sports were represented on the list of the league's postgraduate recipients.
Gomez Treig ranks among the fastest Boilermakers in program history in the 50 freestyle, 100 butterfly and 800 free relay. He was a two-time Big Ten Distinguished Scholar as an upperclassman and a three-time CSCAA honorable mention Scholar All-American and Academic All-Big Ten student-athlete. As a junior in 2019-20, he scored in the 50 free at the Big Ten Championships and was one of only eight members of the men's team at the pool to earn all three top academic honors.
Boudreau helped stage the Wheel Rise event in September 2019 in Holloway Gymnasium, which spotlighted wheelchair basketball and adaptive sports while also helping to launch the organization RIISE (Reinventing the Interface for Sports and Engineering). As a Rhodes Scholar finalist in the fall of 2020, she became just the second player in team history to earn that distinction. Boudreau was a two-time Big Ten Distinguished Scholar and Academic All-Big Ten honoree.
BIG TEN POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS
2013 – Lauren Gustafson (Swimming), Alec LaMothe (Swimming)
2014 – Cody Davis (Football), Kyle Mosier (Wrestling)
2015 – Carly Marshall (Swimming), Manuel Gutierrez (Swimming)
2016 – Hayden Hamby (Basketball), Andrew Hoselton (Wrestling)
2017 – Christa Szalach (Soccer), Jon McKeeman (Basketball)
2018 – Hanna House (Swimming), Chris Bals (Swimming)
2019 – Alex Clarke (Swimming), Ben Thornton (Wrestling)
2020 – Susan Hubbard (Cross Country and Track & Field), Dylan Lydy (Wrestling)
2021 – Léony Boudreau (Basketball), Gabi Gomez Treig (Swimming)
Boudreau (Montréal, Canada) and Gomez Treig (Barcelona, Spain) will each receive a $7,500 scholarship for their continuing education.
Boudreau graduated with a 3.95 grade-point average as a biomedical engineering major. As a well-rounded scholar who speaks four different languages, she continues to explore her options for graduate school, both in the United States and aboard. In November, she was a finalist for a Rhodes Scholarship, a postgraduate award for students interested in studying at the University of Oxford in England.
Gomez Treig graduated with a 3.83 GPA as a double major in finance and accounting, including a data analytics concentration in finance. He plans to work for a year as a financial data analyst at an anesthesia provider as he navigates the application process for graduate school. He highlighted three Ivy League universities that are among his top choices, pursuing a master's in business administration.
Since the Big Ten introduced the two postgraduate scholarships awarded to every institution at the end of the 2012-13 school year, Gomez Treig is the eighth Purdue swimmer to be selected as a recipient. Boudreau is the third basketball player, including second from the women's program.
Each Big Ten institution developed its own on-campus selection process when awarding the scholarship. Student-athletes must have maintained at least a 3.2 GPA, demonstrated leadership qualities, served as an excellent role model and intended to continue their academic work beyond their bachelor's degree at a graduate degree program.
The scholarship will be used to pay expenses of the student's postgraduate education to include such related activities as research and teaching, as well as other expenses such as tuition, fees, room and board, required course-related supplies and books.
Around the Big Ten, 19 different sports were represented on the list of the league's postgraduate recipients.
Gomez Treig ranks among the fastest Boilermakers in program history in the 50 freestyle, 100 butterfly and 800 free relay. He was a two-time Big Ten Distinguished Scholar as an upperclassman and a three-time CSCAA honorable mention Scholar All-American and Academic All-Big Ten student-athlete. As a junior in 2019-20, he scored in the 50 free at the Big Ten Championships and was one of only eight members of the men's team at the pool to earn all three top academic honors.
Boudreau helped stage the Wheel Rise event in September 2019 in Holloway Gymnasium, which spotlighted wheelchair basketball and adaptive sports while also helping to launch the organization RIISE (Reinventing the Interface for Sports and Engineering). As a Rhodes Scholar finalist in the fall of 2020, she became just the second player in team history to earn that distinction. Boudreau was a two-time Big Ten Distinguished Scholar and Academic All-Big Ten honoree.
BIG TEN POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS
2013 – Lauren Gustafson (Swimming), Alec LaMothe (Swimming)
2014 – Cody Davis (Football), Kyle Mosier (Wrestling)
2015 – Carly Marshall (Swimming), Manuel Gutierrez (Swimming)
2016 – Hayden Hamby (Basketball), Andrew Hoselton (Wrestling)
2017 – Christa Szalach (Soccer), Jon McKeeman (Basketball)
2018 – Hanna House (Swimming), Chris Bals (Swimming)
2019 – Alex Clarke (Swimming), Ben Thornton (Wrestling)
2020 – Susan Hubbard (Cross Country and Track & Field), Dylan Lydy (Wrestling)
2021 – Léony Boudreau (Basketball), Gabi Gomez Treig (Swimming)