Georgia Amoore opens up on season-ending injury, Mystics commitment to her during recovery

Former Virginia Tech and Kentucky star Georgia Amoore is sidelined for the entire 2025 WNBA season after suffering from a torn ACL before the start of her rookie season. The heartbreaking diagnosis came after she was selected No. 6 overall by the Washington Mystics.

Amoore, having never played a single WNBA game in a league that has just 144 total roster spots, revealed that there was some worry about her future with the team after going down with the injury. The Mystics front office shut that fear down quickly.

“When I got injured, the GM (Jamila Wideman) and the head coach (Sydney Johnson) came to my apartment and told me what happened,” Amoore said, via Joshua Valdez on X. “I think I cried more not when they told me I had torn it, but when they said I’m still a Mystic, I’m still involved. It just meant the world to me. It’s the best recovery, to be around the team.”

Amoore will play her first WNBA season next year. In the meantime, she has the opportunity to soak up all of the knowledge that comes with being around WNBA-caliber players for an entire year. It’s sort of tweaked the way Amoore sees her role on the team. As a rookie in 2025, she’s doing just that.

“Initially, I’m a point guard,” Amoore said. “My job is to understand my teammates, run the team, to know all of that. Either way, going into my rookie year, I had to be a sponge. That’s something I can do with my brain — I don’t need my right ACL to do that. So I wanted to continue to do that and be as involved as possible, but it’s just perspective.

“It’s just an opportunity to learn. … That’s the best part of it.”

Amoore figures to be a major contributor to the Mystics’ efforts when she does return from injury. She was a star in college with both the Hokies and Wildcats, and enters the WNBA with hordes of experience under her belt.

Through five seasons across 157 games at the college level, Amoore averaged 15.7 points, 5.5 assists, 2.5 rebounds and 0.9 steals per game. That includes a career-best season this past year at UK, totaling 19.6 points, 6.9 assists, 2.3 rebounds and 1.0 steals per game on average.

Just a couple of months since undergoing surgery, videos on social media show that Amoore has recently been able to get back in the gym and put up shots in a limited fashion. As she continues to rehab her knee, the 2026 season likely can’t come soon enough for the first-round draft choice.