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Big Blue Brew 2/6: Fierce Frye

Big Blue Brew 2/6: Fierce Frye

Laney Frye helps the women's golf team in the UCF Challenge.

Big Blue Brew Crew
February 06, 2024

🔵 The Official Daily Newsletter For Kentucky Athletics

Good morning. Get to know some of your UK baseball players before the season starts! Here’s Émilien Pitre mic’d up.

What else are we mixing into today’s Brew?

⛳️ Women’s top 25 finishers
🏀 Dillingham earns SEC honors
🔵 And much, much more!

📈 STOCK UP

🔼 Always Improving. The women’s golf team competed in the UCF Challenge and finished seventh, hitting 862 (-2). Three Cats had individual finishes in the top 25— Laney Frye (T18, -2), Cathryn Brown (T21, -1) and Jensen Castle (T21, -1). This marks the seventh straight tournament that Frye has led the team.

⛳️ Read more about the tournament here.

🔼 No. 4. Men’s basketball player Rob Dillingham is the fourth UK freshman to receive SEC Freshman of the Week honors this season. Dillingham averaged 27.5 points, four assists and 2.5 rebounds last week in the Cats’ games vs. Florida and Tennessee. He scored the fourth most points by a Kentucky freshman in the Tennessee game with a total of 35.

🏀 Read more about Dillingham here.

Rob Dillingham for 3!!
— Kentucky Men’s Basketball (@KentuckyMBB)
1:53 AM • Feb 4, 2024

🔼 Hard Fought. The men’s basketball team lost 103-92 against Tennessee, but Rob Dillingham had a huge night. Dillingham scored a career-high 35 points.

🔼 Two Down. The women’s tennis team faced Columbia on Friday and Princeton on Sunday and fell to both teams.

🔼 So Close. The women’s basketball team faced Georgia on Sunday and lost 72-65. Saniah Tyler led the team with 18.

🤔 BIG BLUE TRIVIA

First Up. We have a spring sport starting its season this week!

What spring sport has its first game this week?

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

🔵 ONE BIG THING

Going for the Medal. The Olympics are right around the corner, and we have a former women’s basketball player on Team USA. Rhyne Howard is currently on the Feb. 2024 roster. Click here to see when the team’s upcoming games are this weekend.

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📅 THE WEEK AHEAD

Tuesday, February 6

⛳️ Men’s Golf Battle at Briar’s Creek
🏌️ Women’s Golf UCF Challenge
🏀 Men’s Basketball at Vanderbilt @ 8:30pm ET

Friday, February 9

👟 Track & Field Tiger Paw Invite | Meet Info
👟 Track & Field David Hemery Valentine Invite | Meet Info
🥎 Softball vs. UC Santa Barbara/Stanford @ 1pm/3:30pm ET | Designated Players Club
🤸 Gymnastics vs. Missouri @ 7pm ET | Tickets
🎾 Women’s Tennis vs. Wichita State @ 11am ET
🎾 Men’s Tennis vs. Harvard @ 5pm ET

Saturday, February 10

Sunday, February 11

🥎 Softball vs. Minnesota @ 1pm ET | Designated Players Club
🎾 Men’s Tennis at Duke @ 1pm ET
🏀 Women’s Basketball vs. Texas A&M @ 4pm ET | Tickets

🎉 TRIVIA ANSWER

Answer: Softball!

🔵 Have a great Tuesday!