{"id":374,"date":"2020-02-10T23:10:13","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T07:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonathanfish.com\/tokyo2020\/?p=374"},"modified":"2020-02-10T23:26:23","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T07:26:23","slug":"potential-purdue-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonathanfish.com\/tokyo2020\/potential-purdue-athletes\/","title":{"rendered":"Potential Purdue athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<p class=\"\">My connection to Purdue University runs deep, so it is exciting to me that several athletes from Purdue have a chance at participating in the Summer Games this year.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">West Lafayette \u27a1\ufe0f Tokyo <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OlympiansMadeHere?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OlympiansMadeHere<\/a> x <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BoilerUp?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BoilerUp<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GodtI8kiqc\">pic.twitter.com\/GodtI8kiqc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Purdue Athletics (@PurdueSports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PurdueSports\/status\/1226944195979554819?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 10, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">I think it is great that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/robbiehummel?lang=en\">Robbie Hummel<\/a> has a good chance to be there. His playing career in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usab.com\/basketball\/players\/mens\/h\/hummel-robbie.aspx\">college and the pros was greatly impacted<\/a> by injury and he began a career as a <a href=\"https:\/\/btn.com\/2019\/10\/29\/btn-announces-mens-and-womens-hoops-talent-for-2019-20-season\/\">broadcaster<\/a>. He\u2019s good at that too. Then he started playing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usab.com\/3x3\/3x3-basketball.aspx\">3&#215;3 basketball<\/a> and was last year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usab.com\/news-events\/news\/2019\/12\/hummel-feature.aspx\">USA Men\u2019s Basketball player of the year<\/a>. How cool is that for him?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamusa.org\/usa-diving\/athletes\/david-boudia\">David Boudia<\/a> was a diver at Purdue, and rose to fame as a 10 meter platform diver. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamusa.org\/News\/2018\/November\/20\/How-A-Concussion-Led-To-David-Boudias-Diving-Rebirth-This-Time-On-The-Springboard\">Injuries drove him<\/a> to stop 10 m platform diving and instead compete in 3 m springboard diving this year. He won the gold medal in the 2012 London Games and the bronze in the 2016 Rio Games. That\u2019s quite an accomplishment. Oh, and he also got silver with fellow Purdue diver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamusa.org\/usa-diving\/athletes\/Steele-Johnson\">Steele Johnson<\/a>&nbsp;in the 10 m synchronized diving in Rio in 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Not sure why <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Steele_Johnson\">Steele<\/a> was left off this list. Maybe only a few athletes are being spotlighted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">For sure I&#8217;ll follow all the athlete&#8217;s journeys as the run up to the 2020 Summer Olympics continues<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My connection to Purdue University runs deep, so it is exciting to me that several athletes from Purdue have a chance at participating in the Summer Games this year. West Lafayette \u27a1\ufe0f Tokyo #OlympiansMadeHere x #BoilerUp pic.twitter.com\/GodtI8kiqc \u2014 Purdue Athletics (@PurdueSports) February 10, 2020 I think it is great that Robbie Hummel has a good &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jonathanfish.com\/tokyo2020\/potential-purdue-athletes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Potential Purdue athletes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,32,34,20],"tags":[35,40,38,19,41,36,37,25,39,15],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3x3-basketball","category-diving","category-purdue","category-sports-spotlight","tag-3x3-basketball","tag-annie-drews","tag-david-boudia","tag-jonathan-fish","tag-kaersten-meitz","tag-purdue","tag-robbie-hummel","tag-sport-spotlight","tag-steele-johnson","tag-tokyo-2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonathanfish.com\/tokyo2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonathanfish.com\/tokyo2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonathanfish.com\/tokyo2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonathanfish.com\/tokyo2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonathanfish.com\/tokyo2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jonathanfish.com\/tokyo2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381,"href":"https:\/\/jonathanfish.com\/tokyo2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonathanfish.com\/tokyo2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonathanfish.com\/tokyo2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonathanfish.com\/tokyo2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}