Four Wildcats to Attend SEC Leadership Council

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama – Four University of Kentucky Wildcats will participate in the Southeastern Conference’s Leadership Council July 17-18.

UK’s representative for the SEC Student Athlete Advisory Committee is Ella Emmert from softball. Representatives for the football, men’s basketball and women’s basketball councils are Josh Kattus, Mouhamed Dioubate and Teonni Key, respectively.

The council consists of representatives from each of the SEC’s 16 institutions. The goal of the leadership council is for student-athletes to serve as a conduit of communication from their teams to the conference office on issues related to student-athlete experience, student-athlete wellness, and to provide feedback on proposed rules governing the SEC and NCAA.

More information on UK’s student athletes is below:

Mouhamed Dioubate, Men’s Basketball, Forward, 6-7, Jr.

• Junior transfer to Kentucky following two seasons at Alabama
• Played in 70 career games and advanced to a pair of Elite Eights
• Averaged 7.2 points, 5.9 rebounds and 1.1 assists per game as a sophomore
• Has logged six career double-doubles, including a 10-point and career-high 16-rebound effort vs. Houston in November of 2024
• Shot 46.2% from 3-point range as a sophomore
• Helped lead Putnam Science Academy to the National Prep Championship in high school

Ella Emmert, Softball, Catcher, RS-Sr.

• Voted a team captain for the second-consecutive season in 2025
• Helped guide Kentucky to an NCAA Regional Final appearance as she clubbed the game-tying hit vs. Northwestern in the bottom of the first inning on an RBI single to left center
• Appeared in 24 games during the 2025 season, including earning a starting spot in four of the last five games behind the dish
• President of the University of Kentucky’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC)
• Earned her first-career SEC hit vs. Texas on May 2 in the regular season series finale

Josh Kattus, Football, Tight End, 6-4, Sr.

• Has appeared in 33 career games with 15 starting assignments
• Totaled 21 receptions for 310 yards and five touchdowns in his career
• Nominated for the 2025 Allstate AFCA Good Works Team
• Mainstay in the community and helped raise more than $34,000 for the Lexington Rotary Club Endowment Fund and Surgery
• In 2025, he helped raise close to $11,000 for Baby Health Services and the Rotary Club of Lexington’s scholarship and services initiatives
• Weekly volunteer at the Kentucky Children’s Hospital, specifically at the DanceBlue Kentucky Children’s Hospital Hematology Oncology Clinic

Teonni Key, Women’s Basketball, Forward, 6-4, Sr.

• Played and started all 31 games for Kentucky in 2024-25
• Reset her career high multiple times in every category on the season, including in points three times (last 20), rebounds six times (last 15), assists (5), field-goal makes five times (last 8), field-goal attempts four times (last 16), three-point field-goal makes three times (2), three-point field-goal attempts three times (4) and blocks three times (last 6)
• Earned 12 double-doubles, including three straight at one point in the season
• Averaged 11.4 ppg, 8.3 rpg, 1.7 bpg (fifth in the league, third in program history) and 1.7 A in 28.2 mpg
• Scored at least 10+ points 22 times on the season, at least 15+ points seven times on the season and at least 20+ point one time on the season