Georgia Amoore Handpicked to the John R. Wooden Award Top 15 National Ballot

LOS ANGELES – Georgia Amoore, University of Kentucky women’s basketball point guard, has been handpicked to the John R. Wooden Award Top 15 National Ballot, it was announced by the Los Angeles Athletic Club this week.

The Wildcat and the 14 other student-athletes are candidates for the Wooden Award All-America Team and the Wooden Award Trophy, presented annually to the nation’s most outstanding college women’s basketball player.

Amoore has led a brand-new team in a brand-new league to a 22-7 overall record, including an 11-2 mark in Historic Memorial Coliseum and an 11-5 mark in the Southeastern Conference.

Through 29 games in 2024-25, she is averaging 19.1 points per game, 2.4 three-point field goals per game and 6.9 assists per game. Her 6.9 assists per game are currently third in the nation and the most in the SEC.

If the season ended today, Amoore’s 6.9 assists per game would rank second in program history and close to breaking the more-than-four-decade-old school record (7.1). Amoore, who has 199 assists total this season, also needs just 11 more assists to break the single-season school record. No Cat has even cracked into the top 10 since Amber Smith in 2009-10, while Amoore is currently third.

The Wildcat has scored in double digits in all but one game this season (28 games), while she has scored at least 20 points in 13 games this season. Moreover, she has knocked down at least three 3-pointers in 13 games, and she has dished out at least seven assists in 19 games.

In fact, Amoore needs just one more 3-pointer to eclipse 400 for her career and she needs just 16 more 3-pointers to break the single-season school record (84).

She has produced 19 games this season – and 14 games against league opponents – with at least 15 points and five assists, which is more than any player in the SEC since at least 2002-03.

Earlier this season, Amoore set the school record for most games with at least seven 3-pointers in a single season with three (Belmont, Mississippi State, at Oklahoma).

Her stats this season are even better in league action.

Through 16 SEC games, she put up 20.4 points per game, 2.4 3-pointers per game and 6.6 assists per game. She became the lone SEC player to have at least 326 points and 106 assists in SEC regular-season action since at least 2002-03. With her 326 points and 106 assists in the SEC, she contributed – either by scoring or by assists – to nearly 50.0 percent of points in league action.

For her career, she is the only current DI player – men or women – to have at least 2,000 career points (2,4-8) and 800 assists (855). The Wildcat also is the third player in DI women’s basketball history to have at least 2,300 career points and 800 career assists, joining Caitlin Clark (Iowa, 2020-24) and Sabrina Ionescu (Oregon, 2016-20).

A list of her awards thus far this season are as follows:

Weekly Awards

• 2x Ann Meyers Drysdale National Player of the Week (Jan. 7 2025; Feb. 3, 2025)
• 2x SEC Player of the Week (Jan. 7 2025; Feb. 3, 2025)
• Jersey Mike’s Naismith Trophy Player of the Week (Feb. 3, 2025)

Annual Awards

• 2024-25 John R. Wooden Award Top 15 National Ballot
• 2024-24 All-SEC First Team (USA Today)
• 2024-25 All-SEC Newcomer of the Year (coaches)
• 2024-25 All-SEC First Team (coaches)
• 2024-25 Nancy Lieberman Point Guard of the Year Top Five Finalist
• 2024-25 The Dawn Staley Award Later Season Watch List
• 2024-25 Jersey Mike’s Naismith Trophy Women’s College Player of the Year Midseason Team
• 2024-25 John R. Wooden Award Top 20 Late Midseason Watch List
• 2024-25 Nancy Lieberman Point Guard of the Year Top 10 Finalist
• 2024-25 Ann Meyers Drysdale Award Midseason Watch List
• 2024-25 Women’s College All-Star Game Watch List
• 2024-25 John R. Wooden Award Midseason Top 25 Watch List
• 2024-25 Wade Trophy Watch List
• 2024-24 John R. Wooden Award Top 50 Watch List
• 2024-25 Jersey Mike’s Naismith Trophy Women’s College Player of the Year Watch List
• 2024-25 Nancy Lieberman Point Guard of the Year Watch List
• 2024-25 All-SEC Preseason First Team (media)
• 2024-25 All-SEC Preseason First Team (coaches)
• 2024-24 AP Preseason All-America Receiving Votes (seventh player overall in vote rankings)

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