🔵 The Official Daily Newsletter For Kentucky Athletics

Good morning! In case you missed this commercial for the gymnastics, volleyball, and women’s basketball season during the FIFA World Cup broadcast — we have it for you right here! Check it out before the Take Over.

What else did we pour into today’s Brew?

🏈 Seal the deal
⚾️ Proving academic excellence
🔵 And much, much more!

📈 STOCK UP

🔼  Seal The Deal. Today, we’re looking back at Jordan Lovett’s favorite play — his game winning interception to seal the deal against Louisville last season. He had seven tackles in Kentucky’s 26-13 rivalry win. Kentucky and Louisville will meet again for the annual matchup on November 25 for the regular season finale.

🔼 Class In Session. The Kentucky baseball team was honored by the American Baseball Coaches Association with the Team Academic Excellence Award for the 2022-2023 season. Kentucky is the only school in the SEC to have earned the award in each of the last six years. There were 36 Wildcat student-athletes on the SEC’s First-Year Honor Roll or Honor Roll.

🔼 Hiring Season. We’re welcoming newest Wildcat track & field assistant coach, Darryl Anderson! He has 18 years of experience as a DI head coach at TCU, where he coached 13 individual national champions, 29 Big 12 Champions, and 104 All-America selections. He was on Kentucky’s staff from 1989-1996 before becoming an assistant at Arizona State. He mentored Olympic medalists and Kentucky greats Tim Harden, Dwight Phillips, and Passion Richardson. We are happy to have Coach Anderson back in Lexington!

🤔 BIG BLUE TRIVIA

Do you know what decade the Wildcat mascot originated?

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

🔵 ONE BIG THING

Members of the Lexington Fire Department and the American Heart Association came out to teach Kentucky football hands-only CPR. Four of those fire fighters were former Wildcat players Paul Warford, Durrell White, DJ Warren, and Mike Kamphake. We’re so proud of our UK football alumni for serving the community!

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📅 COMING SOON

Thursday, August 17

⚽️ Women’s Soccer vs. Eastern Kentucky @ 7:30pm ET (Season Opener)

Thursday, August 24

⚽️ Men’s Soccer vs. Florida Gulf Coast @ 7:30pm ET (Home Opener)

Friday, September 1

🏐 Volleyball vs. Pittsburgh @ 7:00pm ET (Home Opener)

Saturday, September 2

🏈 Football vs. Ball State @ 12:00pm ET on SEC Network | Watch Live | Reserve Your Tailgate

🎉 TRIVIA ANSWER

Answer: 1970’s

The first Wildcat mascot came about in the 1976-1977 year. Scratch came around in 1996.

🔵 Have a great weekend, y’all!