A season ago, UK Athletics set a record by finishing in the top 25 of Directors’ Cup standings for the first time in school history.Now, UK is poised to blow that record-setting performance out of the water.Kentucky ranks 13th in the latest Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup standings on the strength of strong finishes by men’s basketball, rifle, women’s indoor track and field and women’s basketball. Also scoring points among winter sports were men’s and women’s swimming and diving and men’s indoor track and field.UK currently ranks second among all 14 Southeastern Conference schools, trailing only No. 6 Florida, and leads all schools from the Bluegrass state, with Louisville coming in at No. 20.Looking ahead, UK appears to have a good chance of maintaining its current ranking or even improving on it. UK will add points from gymnastics’ finish at NCAA Regionals when standings are tabulated on April 24 and potentially even more as spring sports play out.The women’s outdoor track and field team currently checks in at No. 5 in the polls after finishing ninth at NCAA Indoor Championships, while the men are No. 24. Baseball, softball and men’s tennis are all ranked in the top 15, while women’s tennis is No. 28 and both golf teams are in contention for NCAA berths.If those teams perform as well as expected, UK could be in line to meet Athletics Director Mitch Barnhart’s goal of finishing in the top 15 of Directors’ Cup standings by the year 2015 as part of the 15 by 15 by 15 Plan. UK has won 11 of the 15 conference or national titles needed to meet Barnhart’s goal and has reached his threshold of a 3.0 department-wide grade-point average in three straight semesters.It’s also worth mentioning that UK is faring well in Capitol One Cup standings, tying for seventh in men’s standings with 41 points and coming in 37th in women’s standings.All in all, 2013-14 is shaping up to be a year to remember for UK Athletics.