– Wanted to link a great story by Jennifer Smith of the Lexington Herald-Leader on Kentucky women’s basketball player Victoria Dunlap.
Smith talked to Dunlap recently about her offseason and the brutal workouts she’s been going through to prepare for a huge senior season. I’ll link an excerpt of the story below, but catch the full feature at Kentucky.com. The Cats are currently going through individual workouts, which you can read more about on our blog from a couple of days ago.
Stay up. Stay up.
Please, just stay up.
It’s what Victoria Dunlap has told herself over and over again this summer as she’s gone through conditioning with her Kentucky teammates.
The players have been on the run all summer, doing 400-yard runs, 800-yard runs and the nearly vomit-inducing 20 suicides in 20 minutes.
“That is dreadful,” Dunlap said recently, “but during that I would tell myself one suicide at a time and stay up. I’d either want to lay down or put my hands on my knees, but I just have to stay up.”
The Kentucky team will have completed four of these suicide tests before the start of the season in November.
“I’ve seen people just hurt afterward,” Dunlap said. “But you have to tell yourself, ‘I’m about to pass out, but I have to stay up because my teammates are watching me.’ “Read the full story here.
– ESPN blogger Chris Low writes on the Kentucky football team and says that Joker Phillips is eager to take the next step. Also worth checking out as we get ready for the season opener Saturday.- Head coach John Calipari took to the airwaves Wednesday to talk on the Dan Patrick Show. The second-year UK coach talks about recruiting, how this team measures up to last year’s squad and more. Check out the podcast at Dan Patrick’s site. Also, had a great one-on-one interview with Calipari and assistant coach Orlando Antigua earlier Wednesday for a preseason publication. Keep your eyes peeled for it in October. Some really good stuff came out of it.
