UK Athletics SAAC Extends Partnership with Kentucky Childrens Hospital

LEXINGTON, Ky. – The College of Kentucky Scholar-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) has elected to increase UK Healthcare Kentucky Kids’s Hospital (KCH) as its “Group Companion of Selection.”

The UK SAAC’s partnership with KCH has been in place since April 2020. The UK SAAC partnered with Particular Olympics of Kentucky from December 2018 by means of April 2020.

UK student-athletes work with quite a few different charitable organizations, however the “Group Companion of Selection” initiatives allow Wildcat student-athletes to domesticate even deeper relationships in a targeted method.

In late July, as a part of the “My New Kentucky Residence” welcome sequence for student-athletes new to the UK campus, skilled Wildcats and their youthful teammates joined KCH sufferers and their households for a enjoyable occasion inside Nutter Area Home.

Enjoyable actions included a Q&A “Simon Says” session, a tennis ball toss (indoor model of a water balloon toss), an impediment course recreation, after which a bunch singing of the UK Battle Track earlier than sharing dinner.

The summer time “My New Kentucky Residence” occasion was simply one of many occasions the place Kentucky student-athletes will have interaction KCH children all through the upcoming yr.

UK SAAC is the student-athlete group that represents the student-athletes at Kentucky. UK SAAC seeks to make sure that UK Athletics supplies every sport and each student-athlete with a high quality surroundings and the necessities to be aggressive as a student-athlete and a staff. Every UK staff is represented by at the least one UK SAAC member. UK SAAC is supported by UK Athletics’ Scholar-Athlete Expertise division