Because it is Old GOLD and Black.
Let's face it, we're a diving school. We may be kicked around by the Big Ten in football, baseball, and pretty much every other sport, but thanks to coach Adam Soldati no one in the country dives like us. That will be shown this weekend here in Indianapolis. A total of 112 divers are in Indy for the Olympic Trials and seven of them have ties to Purdue. It is almost certain that more than one will go to Rio in search of gold.
David Boudia - Boudia is attempting to be the third Purdue athletein history to go to three Olympics.