Kentucky Wildcats head coach Kenny Brooks and guard Georgia Amoore (3) watch free throws during the Kentucky vs. Miss. St. women’s basketball game on Thursday, Jan. 2, 2025, at Historic Memorial Coliseum in Lexington, Kentucky. Kentucky won 91-69. Photo by Sydney Yonker | Staff
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.