Senior Georgia Amoore and sophomore Clara Strack were both given multiple SEC honors at the end of the regular season.
Amoore earned SEC Newcomer of the Year and a spot on the All-SEC First Team. Strack won the SEC Defensive Player of the Year award and received All-SEC Second Team and SEC All-Defensive Team honors.
Strack is the second Wildcat to be named SEC Defensive Player of the Year and the ninth to be added to the SEC All-Defense Team.
Amoore is the first-ever recipient of the new SEC Newcomer of the Year award. It is an award that highlights transfers with no prior SEC experience. She is the 26th Kentucky player to be named All-SEC First Team.
Amoore, a Virginia Tech transfer, is having a spectacular first season in the SEC. She is averaging 18.8 points, 2.1 rebounds and 6.9 assists per game with a 42.4% field goal percentage.
Her 6.9 assists per game leads the SEC and ranks third in the country, also ranking second in program history.
She has 192 total assists this season, which ranks third in school history.
Amoore has fueled the Wildcats’ offense all season, either through her scoring or playmaking. She has reached double digits in 27/28 games this season while also leading the team in assists in 26/28 games.
Earlier this season, Amoore tied the single-game school scoring record in her 43-point performance against Oklahoma.
Amoore also became one of three Division-I women’s basketball players to reach 2,300+ career points and 800+ assists. She joined former National Player of the Year winners Caitlin Clark and Sabrina Ionescu.
Amoore has been one of the best point guards in the country this season and it has not gone unnoticed — she has been named as one of five members of the Nancy Lieberman Point Guard of the Year award. She would also be the first-ever Kentucky player to win the Nancy Lieberman Award.
Strack is also having a record-breaking sophomore season. She averages 15.3 points, 9.5 rebounds, 2.7 assists and 2.5 blocks per game.
Her 2.5 blocks per game leads the SEC and ranks ninth in the nation, while her 9.5 rebounds per game ranks fourth in the conference.
Strack has 70 blocks this season, which is a single-season school record. She broke the record, previously 66, set by Victoria Dunlap in 2009-10, with a three-block performance against Tennessee.
Dunlap was previously the only Wildcat to be named SEC Defensive Player of the Year.
Strack also broke the single-game school record when she finished with eight blocks against Ole Miss.
The Wildcats set a new single-season block record with 195, thanks largely to the record-breaking total of Strack. The record was previously 181, set in 2012-13.
Strack has scored double digits in 23/27 games this season with a team-leading 13 double-doubles.
She shot 11/11 in the game against Tennessee. This made her the second player in UK Women’s basketball history to shoot 100% from the field with at least 10 attempts, the first to do so on 11 attempts.
In the Tennessee game, Strack finished with 23 points, 15 rebounds, three blocks and two assists, which made her the only Division-I women’s basketball player to do so against an AP top-25 team since 2002-03.
Strack was named as one of ten finalists for the Lisa Leslie Center of the Year Award. Strack is one of two underclassmen to be named to this list.
Amoore and Strack have both been integral to the Wildcats’ success this season, and these honors and awards prove that to be the case.
Kentucky women’s basketball will return to action on Friday, March 6, in Bon Secours Wellness Arena for the SEC Women’s Basketball Tournament. The Cats will play the winner of game six, Oklahoma versus Arkansas/Georgia, at 2:30 p.m. ET with the game airing live on ESPN.
