NEW YORK CITY – For the first time since 2022, Kentucky has a WNBA draftee, this time Georgia Amoore. The All-American point guard was selected by the Washington Mystics with the No. 6 overall pick in the first round of the 2025 WNBA Draft.
She becomes just the third player in Kentucky women’s basketball history to be selected as a top-10 pick in the WNBA Draft, joining Rhyne Howard (No. 1 overall in 2022) and Evelyn Akhator (No. 3 in 2017), and only the fifth Wildcat ever to be taken in the first round, alongside Victoria Dunlap (No. 11 in 2011), and A’dia Mathies (No. 10 in 2013).
Amoore, a 5-foot-6 guard from Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, spent her final year of eligibility at Kentucky after following Head Coach Kenny Brooks from Virginia Tech to Lexington. Though she only wore blue-and-white for one season, her impact was monumental.
In 31 games, she averaged 19.6 points, 6.9 assists and 2.3 rebounds, while shooting 42.3% from the field. She broke Kentucky’s single-season assist record, tied the program’s single-game scoring record with 43 points and became the only active D-I player with at least 2,000 career points and 800 assists.
She earned All-American honors from the AP, USBWA, WBCA and Sporting News, was named ESPN Transfer of the Year, First Team All-SEC, SEC Newcomer of the Year and was a top-five finalist for the Nancy Lieberman Award.
Amoore also helped lead Kentucky to its first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2022, where she tied the program record for most points in a tournament game with 34 against Liberty.
In her first four seasons at Virginia Tech, she became one of the best players in program history.
As a Hokie, she made 121 starts, scored 1,853 points and dished out a school-record 656 assists. She was a two-time First Team All-ACC selection and led the Hokies to their first ACC titles and a historic Final Four run in 2023.
In Tech’s Final Four game against LSU, Amoore became the first men’s or women’s player ever to make 23 or more 3-pointers in a single NCAA Tournament.
She also joins the WNBA with a record that has only been achieved by sports greats. Amoore, along with Caitlin Clark and Sabrina Ionescu, is one of only three Division I players to surpass 2,300 career points and 800 career assists.
