Léony Boudreau is in her first season as a student coach with the Purdue women's basketball team. Boudreau transitioned into a student coaching role after three seasons on the active roster, but a string of injuries forced her to retire from playing. Boudreau will assist in practices, game preparations and in-game analytics.
CAREER
• Played in 17 games over three seasons with 2.8 minutes per game
• After playing one game in 2018-19, has missed two seasons due to injury
• Retired from playing after the 2019-20 campaign
• Planned and ran, from scratch, the “Wheel Rise Event”, an afternoon in Holloway Gymnasium to help Paralympic athletes reach their full potential.
• The event included a wheelchair basketball game, lectures from world-renowned professors
• “Wheel Rise Event” was the culmination of a chance meeting with Shelby Gruss, a Purdue PhD candidate and former captain of the US Wheelchair Basketball Team
• Two-time Academic All-Big Ten selection
2019-20 / AS A JUNIOR
• Missed the 2019-20 season due to injury
• Saw action during Purdue’s tour of Australia
• Created and organized the inaugural Wheel Rise Event to help Paralympic athletes receive the proper support to achieve their full potential
• Worked closely with Shelby Gruss, a PhD candidate in agronomy at Purdue and the former captain of the US Wheelchair Basketball Team, to raise funds and put on a wheelchair basketball game for approximately 300 people, which was the result of incredible coordination between Purdue Athletics, the College of Engineering and President Mitch Daniels
• Named Perserverance Award Winner at postseason banquet
• Tabbed Academic All-Big Ten
2018-19 / AS A SOPHOMORE
• Played in only one game before missing the remainder of the season due to injury
• Connected on her lone 3-point attempt and added a rebound, an assist and a steal in six minutes at Ball State
• Received the Coaches Award at the Purdue women's basketball postseason banquet
• 2019 Academic All-Big Ten
2017-18 / AS A FRESHMAN
• Appeared in 15 games in her first season with the Boilermakers, including five Big Ten Conference games and one in the WNIT
• Scored her first career points on a pair of free throws vs. Lamar
• Grabbed two boards in a career-high eight minutes at Hawaii
• Received the Tom Reiter Memorial Award at the Purdue women's basketball postseason banquet
HIGH SCHOOL
• Four-year participant at Dawson College
• Missed a significant portion of the 2015-16 season due to injury
• Averaged 11.1 points, 4.2 rebounds per game in 2014-15
• Earned team's leadership award during sophomore season, along with the top academic and athletic award
• Named team's Rookie of the Year in 2013-14
• Coached by Trevor Williams
NOTEWORTHY
• Rated a three-star point guard (89 rating) by ESPN Hoop Gurlz
• Earned General Governor academic honor for the top overall grade point average
• Excellence in School and Sport award winner
• Named a 2017 RSEQ second team all-star
• Two-time RSEQ All-Academic honoree
• Has two former teammates playing NCAA Division I basketball: Sarah St-Fort (Toledo), Anie-Pier Samson (Duquesne)
PERSONAL
• Full name: Léony Boudreau
• Major: Biomedical Engineering
• Birthday: Aug. 5, 1997
• City Born: Montreal, Quebec
• Parents: Jacques Boudreau and Manon St-Pierre
• Siblings: Brother, Chrystohpe