Billed as a “dream game” before the two teams even advanced to play each other, a UK-Louisville showdown — the first since 2005 — came true Saturday. It was to see not only “who dominates the state of Kentucky,” as Louisville’s Viktor Maksimcuk told the Courier-Journal, but to see who advanced to the Round of [...]
2011 Catspy Awards results: 1. Character Award Caitlyn Ciokajlo (Gymnastics) 2. Community Service Award Ashleigh Gustafson (Softball) Josh Nadzam (Track and Field/Cross Country) 3. Supporting Role Megan Moir (Women’s Golf) 4. Female Scholar Athlete of the Year Kayla Sergesketter (Women’s Swimming and Diving) 5. Male Scholar Athlete of the Year T.J. Daugherty (Baseball) 6. Female [...]
By Ethan Levine With a top-10 ranking, home-court advantage and a first round bye, the last thing the UK men’s tennis team expected to see was the two-time defending conference champions in the Southeastern Conference tournament. But that’s exactly who they saw on the other side of the net when the Mississippi Rebels took the [...]
By Ethan Levine Last fall, Alabama and Florida led the way for the Southeastern Conference, holding the top two spots in the coaches’ poll almost the entire season. But the SEC’s depth doesn’t stop there. Louisiana State and UK are all ranked in the top 10, and they’ll all face off this weekend in Lexington [...]
By Ethan Levine It was just the type of match you would expect to see between two Southeastern Conference rivals. Two highly ranked teams, three top-50 players, five end-of-set tiebreakers, and a season’s worth of emotion all packed into UK’s 7-0 victory over Vanderbilt at the Hillary J. Boone Tennis Center Saturday. “We played very [...]
By Ethan Levine From Paris, Ky., to Paris, France, the game of tennis translates into any language. Nowhere is this more relevant than on UK’s men’s tennis team. The French connection begins at the top with fifth-year associate head coach Cedric Kauffmann. Kauffmann came to the U.S. at age 14 to play tennis at the [...]
By Ethan Levine The UK men’s tennis team made quick work of non-conference foe Lipscomb on Tuesday at home in the Hillary J. Boone Tennis Complex. The Cats defeated the Bisons 5-1 by winning two of three doubles matches and five of six singles matches. Lipscomb has now lost seven straight matches. Among the Cats [...]
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