Meet the 2022-23 Kentucky Wildcats: Freshman walk-on Grant Darbyshire has one objective
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We’re getting to know all 15 of the 2022-23 Kentucky Wildcats. Here is what to expect from one of UK’s freshman walk-on players. Watch Kentucky.com for stories about all of the remaining Cats as the preseason unfolds.
Grant Darbyshire
Uniform number: 13.
Height/weight: 6-2, 190.
Position: Guard.
Class: Freshman.
Age: 19.
Hometown: Cincinnati.
High school: Sycamore.
Darbyshire’s role in 2022-23: One of two new walk-ons for the Kentucky Wildcats this season, Darbyshire was a summa cum laude high school graduate and a team captain for his Sycamore High School squad in the Cincinnati area.
He said at the Cats’ annual media day event that he’s entering his first year as a college basketball player with the simple objective to “be a great teammate” and show support for the other Wildcats on the team as they pursue their ultimate goal of winning the program’s ninth national championship.
Darbyshire was not a star player at the high school level, and he’s unlikely to play for the Cats this season, outside of the final stretches of blowout games. He played a total of 10 minutes during Kentucky’s preseason trip to the Bahamas in August, making two of his three field-goal attempts on that four-game summer exhibition tour. Darbyshire did not play in the Blue-White Game in Pikeville.
The Kentucky newcomer is the son of former college basketball player Gregg Darbyshire, co-founder and chairman of ProCamps, the sports event management company that has partnered with UK to run basketball camps and other events in recent years.
This story was originally published October 31, 2022 at 3:00 PM.
