Washington Mystics select Kentucky's Georgia Amoore with No. 6 pick in 2025 WNBA Draft
Georgia Amoore is in a league of her own, and now she's headed to the WNBA.
Amoore was selected by the Washington Mystics with the No. 6 overall pick in the 2025 WNBA draft. The Mystics previously selected Notre Dame guard Sonia Citron with the No. 3 pick in the draft and Kiki Iriafen with the fourth overall pick.
The 5-foot-6 Australian point guard started her collegiate career at Virginia Tech, where she played four seasons from 2020 to 2024. Amoore had a breakout junior campaign during the 2022-23 season and recorded the first triple-double in program history with 24 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds in a win over Nebraska in Dec. 2022. She led Virginia Tech to its first ACC Tournament title and took the Hokies to their first first Final Four in 2023, where she set a new record for three-pointers in a single NCAA tournament with 24. (Iowa's Caitlin Clark later surpassed Amoore's record.)
Amoore followed head coach Kenny Brooks to Kentucky for her fifth and final year and put up career-highs in points per game (19.6), assists per game (6.9) and field goal percentage (42.3%) in 2025. She scored double digits in all but one game this season and earned first-team All-SEC honors, joining her first-team All-ACC selections in 2023 and 2024. Amoore joins Clark and Sabrina Ionescu as the only D-I players to record 2,300+ points and 800+ assists in their career.
"Her growth, maturity has gone through the roof this year," Brooks said of Amoore following their overtime loss to Kansas State in the second round of the NCAA Tournament last month. "You get to a point where sometimes you have special players and you kind of know that it's time for them to move on because she was just so special, she was coaching us some."
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Georgia Amoore career stats
Here's what Amoore averaged in 157 career collegiate games, followed by her 2024-25 stats at Kentucky in parenthesis:
- Points: 15.7 (19.6 ppg)
- Field goal percentage: 40.3% (career-high 42.3%)
- Rebounds: 2.5 (2.3 rpg)
- Assists: 5.5 (6.9 apg)
- Three point percentage: 35.6% (33.6%)
- Free-throw percentage: 82.6% (83.7%)
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