Josh Kattus Selected to SEC Community Service Team

Kentucky tight end Josh Kattus has been selected to the Southeastern Conference Community Service Team, the conference announced Thursday.

Kattus, a Cincinnati native, excels in giving back to the community and is one of the leaders on the team in community service hours. In May of 2024, he participated in the Dancing with the Lexington Stars event, helping raise over $34,000 for the Lexington Rotary Club Endowment Fund and Surgery on Sunday, a nonprofit providing free outpatient procedures for those in need. He and partner Mattie Lewis even won the coveted Mirror Ball trophy.

Since 2022, Kattus, along with several teammates, has visited the Kentucky Children’s Hospital each week during the spring and fall football seasons, visiting with kids, playing games and just providing a reprieve from hospital life. He also actively volunteers at Lexington’s Ronald McDonald House and Scott County Humane Society.

The junior has played in 33 career games for Kentucky with 15 starting assignments and has 21 catches for 310 yards and five touchdowns. This season, he had six catches for 77 yards and two receiving scores and was Johnny-on-the-spot, recovering a fumble at the two-yard line and lunging in the end zone for UK’s game-winning touchdown at then-No. 6 Ole Miss. He got his first receiving touchdown of the season on a 27-yard play in the first quarter at then No. 7 Tennessee and also caught a four-yard touchdown pass at No. 3 Texas.

Academically, Kattus, a communication major, is a three-time Dean’s List honoree and was named to the First-Year SEC Academic Honor Roll as a freshman and the SEC Fall Academic Honor Roll as a sophomore.