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UK Volleyball captures 9th consecutive league crown

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The No. 2 Kentucky Volleyball team completed the perfect Southeastern Conference season Sunday afternoon, sweeping Arkansas 3-0 (25-16, 25-20,
25-12) to finish the regular season 15-0 in SEC play and earn the outright regular-season championship. The title is the ninth-straight championship for Kentucky Volleyball, marking the longest consecutive
championship streak in power four conference volleyball.

On her senior day, Eva Hudson hit .438 for the afternoon, leading all players in the match with 15 kills on 32 swings with only one error. Hudson was one of two players to record double-figure scoring Sunday as her teammate Brooklyn DeLeye had 13 kills on 27 swings to complete the 15-0 season in the SEC as DeLeye and Hudson combined for 28 of Kentucky’s 48 kills on the match.

Kassie O’Brien ran the Kentucky offense to the tune of .376 hitting with eight different UK players recording a kill including two middle blockers, Kennedy Washington and Lizzie Carr, who both had seven kills in the match on a combined 23 swings with only two hitting errors. Washington’s block came alive in the third set, with three stuffs in the set alone as she was responsible for 8.5 points in the match.

Kentucky concludes its regular season with a 22-2 overall record in addition to its 15-0 SEC mark. The Wildcats are the No. 1 overall seed in the 2025 SEC Tournament, which begins Friday in Savannah. Kentucky has earned a double bye into the quarterfinal round and will play its first match Sunday at Noon ET against the eight seed, nine seed or 16 seed depending on who advances in the first and second rounds. The match will air on SEC Network.

UK was 15-0 in the regular season with wins over the second-place and third-place finishing teams of the league on the road head-to-head. Kentucky won both of its five-set matches in league play and the Wildcats went 7-0 on the road with seven sweeps in its 2025 SEC season.