LEXINGTON, Ky. — Cotton Nash, a three-sport star during his time at Kentucky, died Tuesday. He was 80.
Kentucky athletics confirmed news of his death Tuesday afternoon.
Nash played basketball and baseball and competed in track and field for the Wildcats. He was a three-time All-American on the hardwood, earned All-SEC Eastern Division honors on the baseball diamond and threw the discus.
“As a three-sport competitor, Cotton Nash was one of the greatest all-around athletes ever to wear the Blue and White,” Kentucky athletics director Mitch Barnhart said in a statement.