Women's basketball timeline - University of Kentucky Athletics

Chelsea Chowning became the first women’s basketball
player in school history to earn Academic All-
America honors when she was named to the 2008
ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America third
team as selected by the College Sports Information
Directors of America (CoSIDA).
2008—With Kentucky’s impressive comefrom-behind
victory over No. 17/14 Georgia in
Athens, Ga., on Jan. 31 the Wildcats charted
Coach Matthew Mitchell earned his first
win as the head coach at Kentucky when
the Wildcats defeated USC-Upstate in the
season opener, 74-59, on Nov. 10, 2007.
their first win over the Lady Dawgs since 2005,
their first win in Athens since 1994 and their
first win over a ranked SEC opponent on the
road since 1986. It also marked UK’s first win
over any ranked opponent on the road since 1997.
2008— Kentucky charted eight wins during
regular-season Southeastern Conference play,
marking the second-most league wins in school
history. In his first season as head coach of the
Wildcats, Matthew Mitchell’s eight SEC wins
were the most conference wins by a first-year
head coach in UK Hoops history.
2008— A school-record five Wildcats earned
postseason SEC honors. Samantha Mahoney and
Sarah Elliott were named to the second team, Victoria
Dunlap and Amber Smith were selected to
the All-Freshman Team and Chelsea Chowning
was named the SEC Scholar Athlete of the Year.
Elliott and Mahoney also were named honorable
mention All-SEC by The Associated Press.
2008—The Wildcats participated in a schoolrecord
fourth consecutive postseason tournament
with a quartrfinals finish in the postseason
WNIT. UK received a first-round bye and
defeated Middle Tennessee and James Madison
in Memorial Coliseum before narrowly falling to
eventual champion Marquette in the quarterfinals
in Lexington.
2008—Seniors Sarah Elliott and Samantha
Mahoney played in 132 career game, breaking
the school record of 129 games set by Jennifer
Humphrey from 2003-07.
2008—Senior center Sarah Elliott became
UK’s all-time leading blocker. She holds the
school record for blocks in a game (6), season
(56), and career (195).
2008—UK ranked in the nation’s top 25 and
the SEC’s top four in average attendance for the
fifth consecutive season. The Cats were 23rd
nationally and fourth in the SEC, averaging 4,765
fans per game.
2008— Kentucky saw a season-high attendance
of 8,335 vs. No. 9 LSU in Rupp Arena on
Jan. 27. It marked the fifth-largest crowd to see a
women’s game in Rupp Arena and was the seventh-largest
crowd overall at UK.
2008—Matthew Mitchell hired new assistant
coaches Kyra Elzy and Matt Insell to replace
Niya Butts (now the head coach at Arizona) and
Vonn Read.
Seniors Chanté Bowman, Sarah Elliott, and Samantha Mahoney
will forever leave a mark on the program as they helped UK
appear in four straight postseason tournaments and ink several
“firsts” in UK Hoops history in their four-year career.
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Samantha Mahoney scored a career-high 30
points in the postseason WNIT vs. James
Madison and become UK’s third all-time leading
scorer. She ended her illustrious career
with 1,601 points.
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