By Les Johns | staff writer Head coach Matthew Mitchell’s UK Hoops team was ranked No. 18 nationally in the The Associated Press poll and No. 15 in the USA Today/ESPN coaches’ poll. This is the first time in program history that the team has been ranked in the preseason polls in consecutive seasons. Mitchell [...]
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 [...]
UK women’s basketball head coach Matthew Mitchell suprised everyone when he broke out some nifty dance moves at Big Blue Madness. Mitchell was doing the “Dougie,” a dance move popularized by Cali Swag District’s hit song “Teach me how to Dougie,” but more surprisingly, he was doing the dance quite well. At UK women’s basketball [...]
Add yet another award to freshman guard A’dia Mathies’ resume. On Sunday, Mathies was named to the seventh annual Gballmag.com Young All-America team for her significant contributions to her team’s success during her rookie campaign. Nine other players joined Mathies on the list, including Southeastern Conference opponent Jasmine James, a guard for Georgia. Mathies averaged [...]
Junior forward Victoria Dunlap and freshman guard A’dia Mathies were named Full Court Press All-Americans on Thursday. Dunlap, the AP and coaches’ choice for Southeastern Conference Player of the Year, was named to the second team by a panel of Full Court Press correspondents from across the nation. Mathies was named to the second team [...]
The UK women’s basketball team has signed Samantha Drake, a 6-foot-3 forward from Nelson County High School located in Bardstown, Ky., during the late signing period, UK head coach Matthew Mitchell announced on Wednesday. According to ESPN HoopGurlz’s recruiting rankings, Drake is the 74th-best player and the eighth-best post player in the nation. Drake averaged [...]
On Wednesday, UK head coach Matthew Mitchell announced that sophomore guard Rebecca Gray has left the team and has decided to enroll at Union College in Barbourville, Ky. This marks the second time Gray has transferred during her collegiate career. Following her freshman year at North Carolina in 2007-08, Gray, a former Miss Kentucky Basketball [...]
Don’t expect the UK women’s basketball team to be picked 11th in the Southeastern Conference next season. Then again, outsiders’ expectations didn’t do anything to prevent the Cats from rewriting the record books on their path to putting together the most successful season in program history. Despite being picked to finish 11th out of 12 [...]
On Saturday, UK junior forward Victoria Dunlap was selected as one of 10 members of the State Farm Coaches’ All-America team. Dunlap joins Valerie Still, who played from 1981-1983, as the only other Cat in school history to make the team. Dunlap was one of 40 players under consideration by a selection committee. The announcement was [...]
Hoops vs. Oklahoma – Images by Kentucky Kernel KANSAS CITY, Mo.—The most successful season in UK women’s basketball history is over. The Cats (28-8) were denied their first trip to the Final Four in their second Elite Eight appearance after falling to the Oklahoma Sooners (27-10) 88-68 on Tuesday night at the Sprint Center. In [...]
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