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The Kentucky Wildcats are the men's and women's intercollegiate athletic squads of the University of Kentucky UK , a founding member of the Southeastern Conference. The Kentucky Wildcats is the student body of the University of Kentucky. Historically, the women's teams and athletes were referred to as the "Lady Kats", but all athletic squads adopted the "Wildcats" nickname in Their main and most intense rival is the University of Louisville.
The Wildcats are composed of 19 varsity teams that compete nationally. The nickname "Wildcats" became synonymous with UK shortly after a 6—2 football road victory over Illinois on October 9, Commandant Philip W.
Corbusier, then head of the military department at old State University, told a group of students in a chapel service following the game that the Kentucky football team had "fought like Wildcats. As a result, the nickname was adopted by the university. The university adopted blue and white as its official colors in Originally, however, UK students had decided on blue and light yellow prior to the Kentucky- Centre College football game on December 19, The shade of blue, which is close to a royal blue, was chosen when a student asked the question, "What color blue?
Stoll who lettered in football at UK in —94 pulled off his necktie and held it up. The students then adopted that particular shade of blue. A year later, UK students officially dropped the light yellow color for white because the two colors did not look good together.
UK has won 13 national championships including the men's basketball title. UK also boasts the women's cross country national championship; —21 women's volleyball championship; , , and rifle championships, and 8 men's basketball titles. Beginning in the s, students at the University of Kentucky started scheduling football games with neighboring colleges. Several decades later, in , then- high school coach Adolph Rupp was hired as a basketball coach for the university, a career that would span over 40 years until Considered to be an elite NCAA basketball program, the University of Kentucky men's basketball team is the winningest program in the history of college basketball.
The team was the first ever Division I squad to reach 2, victories after defeating Drexel University on December 21, UK's eight championships were won by five different coaches — Adolph Rupp in , , and , Joe B. Kentucky's and teams were also awarded the Helms national championship, and his , , and teams were retroactively recognized as the national champion by the Premo-Porretta Power Poll. The program has garnered 45 SEC regular season titles. Since the —10 season, John Calipari has coached the Wildcats with a "one-and-done" approach to recruiting, resulting in freshman-laden lineups — including a record 5 first round draft picks in the NBA Draft and 6 Wildcats taken in the NBA Draft.
The very first University of Kentucky women's basketball team was organized in , competing for the first time on February 21, However, in , the University Senate passed a bill to abolish women's basketball in part because "basketball had proven to be a strenuous sport for boys and therefore was too strenuous for girls.
The team was given the nickname "Lady Kats" and was coached by Debbie Yow. The following year, the same trio led the team to a 4 ranking in the country, the highest in the team's history. The team was previously coached by Matthew Mitchell , named as the SEC Coach of the Year in after leading the —10 team to a surprising 28—8 season in which they set school records for best start, most consecutive SEC wins, best SEC finish, and most wins in a season, culminating in their first NCAA regional final since The team is now coached by Kyra Elzy , who took the position in December Paul "Bear" Bryant was Kentucky's head football coach for eight seasons.
In final AP polls, the Wildcats were ranked 11 in , 7 in , 15 in , 20 in and 16 in At the time of the Sugar Bowl win over 1 Oklahoma, the final polls were taken before the bowl games. The NCAA has never officially recognized a national champion from among the bowl coalition institutions, but in the NCAA commissioned Jeff Sagarin to use his computer model to retroactively determine the highest ranked teams for the years prior to the BCS.
His champion for the season is Kentucky. The Wildcats retroactively claimed a share of the Southeastern Conference championship under coach Fran Curci via a loss later forfeited by Mississippi State and despite losing at home to conference champion Georgia and won the Peach Bowl , finishing 18 in the final AP poll.
In Kentucky returned to the Hall of Fame Bowl and defeated a ranked Wisconsin team to finish the season with a 9—3 record and a 19 ranking in the final AP poll. Coach Hal Mumme led the Wildcats to the Outback Bowl and the Music City Bowl but the program was hit with severe sanctions for infractions during Mumme's tenure. Coach Rich Brooks led the team to an 8—5 regular season record in , including a memorable upset over the defending SEC champion Georgia, snapping a nine-game losing streak to the Bulldogs.
Brooks also led the football team to its first bowl game since and its first bowl game victory since , as Kentucky defeated the Clemson University Tigers 28—20 in the Music City Bowl. Brooks led UK to a 40—34 win over number 9 ranked Louisville. This marked UK's first win over a top 10 team since 4 Penn State in The Wildcats were ranked 8th in the nation before a loss to South Carolina on October 4.
It was the Wildcats second straight bowl appearance. The last three bowl appearances for the Cats have been in the Music City Bowl, which they have appeared in more than any other SEC team in the conference's affiliation with the game, which dates back to the inaugural game in On January 2, Kentucky football set a record with the school's first back to back to back bowl games.
After a bad start in the Liberty Bowl, Kentucky made a comeback from a 16—3 deficit at halftime to beat East Carolina 25— After a fumble by the East Carolina running back, UK Defensive Tackle Ventrell Jenkins returned the ball over 50 yards for the score that gave Kentucky their first lead of the game.
Former Wildcat wide receiver and longtime assistant coach Joker Phillips was formally named head coach January 6, after Brooks' retirement. However, the Wildcats would not return to a bowl in either of the next two seasons. The main highlight of those years came in , when Kentucky defeated Tennessee for the first time since Phillips was fired in November , effective at season's end. Stoops has gone on to become the winningest coach in Kentucky's history. In , Stoops and Kentucky had arguably the best season in program history going 10—3 and beating Penn State 27—24 in the Citris Bowl which was led by 7th overall pick Josh Allen linebacker and all-time leading rusher Benny Snell.
During the Football season the University of Kentucky Wildcats have made history. The football team has qualified to compete in the Bowl.
The Wildcats started the season out very strong. Later the team defeated the University of Florida Gators, scoring Saturday on ESPN. Florida leads the all-time series, The Gators have won the last two games in the series, including a win in Gainesville last season and a win in Lexington in The Wildcats baseball team began play in their new stadium, Kentucky Proud Park , in fall , replacing Cliff Hagan Stadium , where they had played since The baseball program, partly hampered by being the northernmost school in the heavily warm-weather SEC [ citation needed ] , has historically achieved only modest success at best.
Wildcats baseball hit bottom at the turn of the 21st century, with only one winning season from through , and last-place finishes in the SEC East division in every season from through In , after the retirement of longtime coach Keith Madison, Kentucky hired Florida assistant John Cohen as head coach.
Cohen was able to lead the Cats to a winning overall season in , despite another SEC cellar finish. He was replaced by former Kentucky assistant Gary Henderson.
Few could have expected the Cinderella season the Cats would have in They literally went from worst to first in the SEC, winning a regular-season conference title for the first time in three decades, and being ranked as high as fourth in the country by one major baseball poll during the season [ citation needed ].
However, the newly energized Kentucky baseball faithful saw the Cats crash out of the SEC tournament early and fail to make it out of the regionals of the NCAA tournament at home. In , Kentucky garnered its most successful season ever in program history. The season also marked the first time that UK had ever been ranked No. UK finished the season with a No.
UK also achieved a program record by winning seven of ten series in SEC play. UK also ran up a school-record game winning streak, which is the second longest in SEC history.
During the regular season Reed was 11—2 with a 2. In , Henderson had resigned and was replaced by Nick Mingione , who had been an assistant in the season. Mingione brought a new attitude to the team and they had a 43—23 record with 19—11 in the SEC. Minione was named SEC coach of the year. The University of Kentucky softball team had their inaugural season in Since Lawson's hire she has become the winningest coach in program history.
Now sitting at — in her eleven seasons at Kentucky, Lawson is the winningest head coach in school history and already has more wins in SEC play than UK had total as a program when she took over in UK also finished in the top 14 of both collegiate softball rankings for the third time in school history with eleven wins over ranked teams.
Another accomplishment since Lawson's hire in is the integration of John Cropp Stadium. They are the only school to win more than two consecutive championships, having won each year from through and from through , and are the only school to win consecutive championships on multiple occasions, having done so four times —, —, —, and — They have won championships in , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and ; have also placed second four times, and have finished in the top ten every year since the existence of the UCA National College Championships.
The men's and women's golf teams call the University Club of Kentucky their home course. Brown Jr. They play their home matches at the Boone Tennis Center since January The co-ed Rifle team is coached by Harry Mullins. It began as a club sport in UK won the team national championship in , as well as the title in smallbore.
Kentucky has won 14 NCAA team national championships. UK has a men's hockey team that competes at club level, which means that it is student-operated without university assistance, and they compete in the American Collegiate Hockey Association 's Division II level.
The "Coolcats" play their home games at the Lexington Ice Center. Traditionally the team ranks as the 3rd most popular spectator sport behind Football and Basketball. The hockey program is funded by private funds outside of the athletic department. In the cats released their first poster featuring actress and UK alum Ashley Judd.