{"id":661594,"date":"2026-05-24T03:17:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T03:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/661594\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T03:17:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T03:17:26","slug":"avery-pope-joins-kentucky-womens-tennis-uk-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/661594\/","title":{"rendered":"Avery Pope Joins Kentucky Women\u2019s Tennis \u2013 UK Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LEXINGTON, Ky. \u2013 The University of Kentucky women\u2019s tennis program inked Avery Pope as an addition this offseason, head coach Shelley Jaudon announced Friday. She will join the team for the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very excited for Avery to join our Kentucky women\u2019s tennis family,\u201d said Jaudon. \u201cAvery has a unique story in pausing her athletic career to go serve others overseas. The maturity, selflessness and drive it took from her to live that experience is going to help Avery have an immediate impact on our program. We can\u2019t wait to get started working with her!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Avery Pope<br \/>Senior | Provo, Utah | BYU<\/p>\n<p>Avery Pope joins the team for her fourth year of eligibility, spending her first three collegiate years at BYU. The last season she played was 2023-24, before taking some time off to go on a mission to El Salvador.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2023-24 season, Avery Pope went 6-10 in singles play and 9-4 in doubles play.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to BYU, she was a three-time Utah Team State Champion (2018, 2019, 2020), ranked as the No. 3 player in Utah, and No. 10 in the Mountain Region.<\/p>\n<p>For the latest on UK Women\u2019s Tennis, follow @UKWomensTennis on Instagram, Facebook and X (formerly Twitter).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEXINGTON, Ky. \u2013 The University of Kentucky women\u2019s tennis program inked Avery Pope as an addition this offseason,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[451,289525,99,428,170830],"class_list":["post-661594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-headlines","tag-non-homepage-featured","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-women-s-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}