WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Purdue women’s basketball team welcomed two new additions to the staff in graduate assistants Eli Baroudos and Amaria Fields, head coach Katie Gearlds announced.
The duo will assist the coaching staff with player development, practice management, game scouting and day-to-day operations of the program.
A familiar face to the program, Baroudos served as a practice player at Purdue for the last three years, leading the RIP (Ready, Intense, Practice) Squad in 2025-26. He graduated from Purdue with a degree in Organizational Leadership in May.
Fields arrives in West Lafayette after spending the 2025-26 season as a graduate assistant at Chicago State. A top-150 recruit nationally by Blue Star Basketball in the class of 2021, Fields split her playing career between Boston College and Detroit Mercy. She earned her degree in Biomedical Sciences.
The duo rounds out the new staff members alongside Assistant Coach / Recruiting Strategy Emily Ben-Jumbo, Assistant Coach Bojan Jankovic and Director of Operations Devin Johnson-Reed.