MattMay

A native of Lexington, Ky., May has been the primary baseball publicist since the 2017 season and has worked for UK Athletics Communications and Public Relations since Sept. of 2016. He has promoted three of the best seasons in Kentucky baseball history, the 2017 and 2023 NCAA Lexington Regional Champions and 2024 College World Series club. He helped promote the first national Senior CLASS Award winner in school history and helped the Wildcats to two honorees in seven years, as well as the NCAA’s prestigious Elite 90 academic award. He also was the 2024 National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association president. 

May also works as the secondary contact for Kentucky’s nationally prominent football program, assisting UK publicist legends Tony Neely and Susan Lax in the promotion of the Wildcats, earning the FWAA ‘Super 11’ Award for their promotion of and work with the media for football. 

May joined the UK staff after three years as the media relations manager for the Keeneland Association. Before joining Keeneland, May was the beat writer and columnist for The Cats’ Pause and CatsPause.com from Nov. of 2001 to Aug. of 2013, serving as the lead UK reporter for football, men’s and women’s basketball and baseball. 

May also is a board member for the Stroke Care Network Advisory Committee. 

A 2000 graduate of UK with a journalism degree, Matt and his wife Carmen have sons Max and Miles, and daughter Chloe.