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Kentucky baseball goes into this week’s NCAA Tournament with a 36-18 record (16-14 SEC) and hopes to be announced as one of the NCAA regional hosts when pairings are made tonight.
Pitcher Alex Degen was recently named to the SEC Community Service Team for the third time in his career. Degen has volunteered 175 hours of work with the Ronald McDonald House, more than 100 hours of work with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and more than 150 hours of work for other various outreaches. He is also a member of UK’s prestigious Frank G. Ham Society of Character.
The UK baseball player was also one of two UK students to receive UK’s highest honor for humanitarian efforts — the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award. The Sullivan Award recognizes those “who exhibit Sullivan’s ideals of heart, mind, and conduct as evince a spirit of love for and helpfulness to other men and women.”
The New Jersey native recently medically retired from baseball but stayed with the team as a student assistant coach. He finished his career with a 3-1 record, one save and 4.30 ERA in three seasons.
He graduated with a graduate certificate in nonprofit management from the Martin School of Public Policy and an undergraduate certificate in financial planning from the Gatton College of Business and Economics. He earned a BA degree in social work in 2021 from the College of Social Work and a BS in business administration in 2022 from the Gatton College of Business and Economics.
