UK Athletics SAAC Announces BBBS-Bluegrass as Community Partner of Choice
LEXINGTON, Ky. – The University of Kentucky Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) has selected Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bluegrass as the Community Partner of Choice for service outreach for the upcoming 2025-26 academic year.
The Community Partner of Choice program allows student-athletes to create deeper connections and prioritize events and opportunities with the chosen organization.
“We are so excited as an organization to partner with Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bluegrass,” SAAC President and softball player Ella Emmert said. “We are constantly surrounded with support from our community, and we can’t wait to have an opportunity to give back. We hope to develop meaningful relationships and continue to build mentor-mentee relationships that last lifetimes.”
The SAAC has selected a Community Partner of Choice each of the past seven years, working with Fayette County Public Schools the past two years, UK Healthcare Kentucky Children’s Hospital for the previous three years, an extended partnership due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and Special Olympics of Kentucky from December 2018 through April 2020.
At the end of the “My New Kentucky Home” new student-athlete orientation program last summer, more than 100 newcomer Wildcats held a “field day” community-service event with Big Brothers Big Sisters mentees.
UK student-athletes work with numerous other charitable organizations, but the “Community Partner of Choice” initiatives enable Wildcat student-athletes to cultivate even deeper relationships in a focused manner.
SAAC is the student-athlete organization that represents the student-athletes at the University of Kentucky. SAAC seeks to ensure that UK Athletics provides each sport and every student-athlete with a quality environment and the essentials to be competitive as a student-athlete and a team. Each UK team is represented by at least one SAAC member. SAAC is supported by UK Athletics’ Student-Athlete Experience division.
