GOLD AND BLACK ILLUSTRATED VOLUME 27, ISSUE 4 80
BY STACY CLARDIE
SClardie@GoldandBlack.com
B
oo De Oliveira didn't waste much time.
As soon as Purdue's softball team returned
to campus in August — weeks after she was
hired as the head coach to replace Kim Schuette —
De Oliveira divided the team into four groups, called
them Boilermaker Performance Series teams, and
asked each one to come up with core values the team
would live by.
A couple weeks later, the full team gathered inside
the team meeting room at Bittinger Stadium to fill
the dry erase board. They answered the questions De
Oliveira had asked them to think about — What did
Purdue softball used to be? What does it look like right
now? What do we want it to look like in the future?
— and then scribbled their word selections that could
serve as core values for the team.
"The whole board was covered," De Oliveira said of
the meeting.
De Oliveira
sets priority:
Culture
Tom Campbell
Boo De Oliveira has been at Purdue before, under Kim Maher
as an assistant coach from 2007-2010. She said she knew
she always wanted to return — and she's back now as the
program's head coach.
Character Driven
