Big Blue Brew 7/19: Weaver's on a Watch List

J.J. Weaver is on the Allstate AFCA Good Works Team Watch List.

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🏈 Weaver on a watch list
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🔼 Keep Serving. Senior outside linebacker J.J. Weaver has been named to the Allstate AFCA Good Works Team. He is one of a record-breaking 178 nominees. The award recognizes student-athletes who serve the community, maintain a strong academic standing and champion mental health awareness, youth mentorship, hunger relief, domestic abuse prevention and many more.

Weaver went through many hardships from July 2020 to Aug. 2021. In the end, he became an outspoken advocate for mental health counseling and launched an 8-week peer-led grief counseling group on UK’s campus called “The Perfect Fit Support Group.”

Happening Now! Two men’s golfers are competing in the 2024 Southern Amateur Championship.

Which two Wildcats are competing?

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Welcome! The men’s golf team added Peter Pougnet to its staff as an assistant coach. Pougnet was recently head coach at Regis University for the men’s and women’s golf teams for two seasons. He helped the women’s team to the program’s second-best scoring average as a team in program history in 2023-24.

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