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Daniela Vidal

DANIELA VIDAL
Photo by Charles Jischke

 

Recent speech, language, and hearing sciences graduate DANIELA VIDAL (SLHS '15) finished her career on the Purdue Women's Tennis team as a member of the first senior class in program history to qualify for NCAA Championships in each of her four seasons. She earned her first Big Ten Women's Player of the Week honor after wins at No. 1 doubles and singles at the University of Tulsa in February 2015 and was named the Ohio Valley Region ITA Most Improved Senior of the Year. She currently works for Purdue Intercollegiate Athletics.

Faye Adelaja

FAYE ADELAJA
Photo by Charles Jischke

 

After sitting out her freshman season in 2012, Purdue Women's Volleyball player FAYE ADELAJA earned Academic All-Big Ten honors the following two seasons and put her name in the Purdue record books with a .344 hitting percentage, ranking 10th on the school season listing and 11th among Big Ten players in 2014. Now a redshirt junior, she is among the top middle blockers in the nation as well as one of the top health and kinesiology students at Purdue.

Srisha Pillay

SRISHA PILLAY
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Beyond her pre-professional studies in the School of Health Sciences, junior SRISHA PILLAY serves as a BoilerMentor in the Emerging Leader Program and spent a week in Honduras in January 2015 with the Global Medical Brigade. Working from a village clinic, the group treated nearly 300 patients a day, taught local children how to properly brush their teeth and provided information to adults about safe sex. Upon her expected graduation from Purdue in 2017, she plans to earn a professional degree as a physician's assistant.

Kyle Borland

KYLE BOLAND
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Hospitality and tourism management student KYLE BOLAND is involved in countless extracurricular activities, including serving as a Boiler Gold Rush team leader, mentoring incoming HHS students and serving as vice president of the Hospitality and Tourism Management Society. He's also involved in Purdue's Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program and Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity. Over the past three summers Kyle has completed internships at hotels in both Chicago and Boston and in May studied abroad in Spain.

Jessica Rink

JESSICA RINK
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After earning her degree in consumer science in May 2015, JESSICA RINK is now pursuing a career in sales at PAC Bannerworks in Mishawaka, Indiana, but during her time in West Lafayette she pursued her passion for tennis as a four-year member of the Purdue Club Tennis team. She served as president for three years and in 2015 led the team to the Club Tennis national competition after beating Northwestern in the sectionals, where she also received the Midwest Leader of the Year Award.

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