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Big Blue Brew 5/2: Brea Ballin' at UK

Big Blue Brew 5/2: Brea Ballin' at UK

Koby Brea is joining the men's basketball team.

Big Blue Brew Crew
May 02, 2024

🔵 The Official Daily Newsletter For Kentucky Athletics

Good Morning. The Kentucky Sports Hall of Fame added two members to the Class of 2024— Tony Delk and Oscar Combs. Read more about them here.

What else are we mixing into today’s Brew?

🏀 Koby Brea joins MBB
💃 New dance head coach
🔵 And much, much more!

📈 STOCK UP

🔼 Welcome! The men’s basketball team has a new guard! Koby Brea is a sharpshooter and a two-time Atlantic 10 Sixth Man of the Year honoree. He paced the nation in 3-point percentage a season ago, making 49.8% of his attempts for Dayton in 2023-24. He averaged 3.0 threes per game. Brea will have one season of eligibility remaining.

🏀 Read more about Brea here.

🔼 Moving Up. The dance team has a new head coach! Janet Brock served as the assistant coach of the Kentucky Dance Team and is now the head coach. Former head coach Dawn Walters is retiring. She and Brock led the Cats to multiple top-five finishes in the Universal Dance Association national championships.

💃 Read more about Brock here.

🤔 BIG BLUE TRIVIA

You’re Invited! The NCAA Division I Men’s Tennis Subcommittee announced its selections for the NCAA singles and doubles tournaments.

Which three Cats were chosen?

Think you got it? Scroll on down to the bottom of this email for the answer!

🔵 ONE BIG THING

Another One. Women’s head basketball coach Kenny Brooks hired Ciara Gregory as assistant coach and director of recruiting operations. Gregory was recently the assistant coach at Charlotte from 2022-24. She also served one season as a graduate manager at Charlotte from 2020-21. Gregory helped coach All-AAC First Team selection Danzia Lawrence who then earned Conference USA First Team honors.

🏀 Read more about Gregory here.

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📅 THE WEEK AHEAD

Thursday, May 2

🥎 Softball at Tennessee @ 7pm ET

Friday, May 3

Saturday, May 4

Sunday, May 5

⚾️ Baseball vs. Arkansas @ 1pm ET | Watch | Live Stats

🎉 TRIVIA ANSWER

Answer: Taha Baadi, Josh Lapadat and JJ Mercer!

🔵 Have a great Thursday!