Georgia Amoore named to two midseason Player of the Year watch lists

Georgia Amoore‘s incredible season continues to bring in the accolades.

Kentucky women’s basketball’s star point guard was added to a pair of prestigious midseason lists this week. On Tuesday, Amoore was tabbed to the John R. Wooden Award Late Midseason Top 20 Watch List. A day later, she was named to the Naismith Women’s Player of the Year Midseason Team.

Not too shabby.

A fifth-year senior from Australia, Amoore is playing even better than her All-American season in 2023-24 at Virginia Tech. The fifth-year floor general is averaging 19.2 points and an SEC-leading 7.4 assists in 36 minutes per outing. She’s shooting 43.4 percent from the floor, 33.7 percent from deep, and 86.7 percent from the free-throw line.

Kentucky is currently ranked No. 8 in the country, the program’s highest ranking since the 2015-16 season, in large part due to Amoore’s production under head coach Kenny Brooks.

Amoore has scored in double-digits in 21 of Kentucky’s 22 games this season. Her 43 points against Oklahoma on Feb. 2 tied the school record for most in a single game. She has 16 games this season with at least seven assists. ESPN recently projected her as a first-round pick in the 2025 WNBA Draft.

Below is Amoore’s (lengthy) list of awards/recognitions she’s already received to this point in the season, courtesy of UK Athletics. There are a lot of them…

• 2024-25 Jersey Mike’s Naismith Women’s Player of the Year Midseason Team
• 2024-25 John R. Wooden Award Top 20 Late Midseason Watch List
• 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)
• 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 (Jan. 7, 2025)
• 2024-25 Wade Trophy Watch List (Nov. 12, 2024)
• 2024-24 John R. Wooden Award Top 50 Watch List (Nov. 7, 2024)
• 2024-25 Jersey Mike’s Naismith Trophy Women’s College Player of the Year Watch List (Oct. 28,
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• 2024-25 Nancy Lieberman Point Guard of the Year Watch List (Oct. 28, 2024)
• 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)