Georgia Amoore Earns All-America Second Team from The Sporting News

The point guard from Ballarat, Australia, is one of 10 players named an All-American by The Sporting News. The first team includes JuJu Watkins (USC), Hannah Hidalgo (Notre Dame), Paige Bueckers (UConn), Lauren Betts (UCLA) and Aneesah Morrow (LSU). The second team features Amoore (Kentucky), Ta’Niya Latson (Florida State), Olivia Miles (Notre Dame), Mikayla Blakes (Vanderbilt) and Madison Booker (Texas).

This is the first All-America designation for Amoore, who has been named to numerous watch lists this season.

The Wildcat is the glue behind the University of Kentucky women’s basketball’s turnaround this winter, leading a team that features 11 new players and 11 new staffers to a 22-7 overall record, including an 11-5 mark in the Southeastern Conference. Her guidance also helped UK earn a four seed at the SEC Tournament, with a double bye, and a four seed at the NCAA Tournament, with a bid to host the First and Second Rounds.

Through 29 games in 2024-25, she is averaging the best stats of her college career in five categories, including 19.1 points per game, 42.5 field-goal percentage, 6.9 assists per game, 2.2 assist-turnover ratio and 1.0 steals per game. She also is averaging 2.4 three-point field goals per game.

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 The Sporting News All-America Second Team
2024-25 Jersey Mike’s Naismith Trophy Women’s College Player of the Year Semifinalist
2024-25 ESPN Transfer of the Year
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)