Kenny Brooks and his Wildcats squad just cleaned up at the Southeastern Conference honors on Tuesday, all voted on by the league coaches. Georgia Amoore? She snatched that SEC Newcomer of the Year crown, while Clara Strack locked down SEC Defensive Player of the Year. Straight fire!
Amoore’s holdin’ it down on the All-SEC First Team, and Strack? She’s doublin’ up, nabbin’ spots on the All-SEC Second Team and the SEC All-Defensive Team. These ladies out here ballin’!
Amoore made history, pullin’ the first-ever SEC Newcomer of the Year nod, and they only counted transfers who ain’t hooped in the SEC before. That’s big, y’all!
Then you got Strack, only the second Wildcat ever to snag that Defensive Player of the Year title, joinin’ the legend Victoria Dunlap from back in 2011. Oh, and check this, Strack just smashed Dunlap’s single-season block record last week. She’s out here swattin’ shots and takin’ names!
That’s how the Wildcats roll, y’all, puttin’ in work and stackin’ up the hardware!
Georgia Amoore
SEC Newcomer of the Year, All-SEC First Team
Georgia Amoore, rockin’ a new squad in a new conference and killin’ it! This Nancy Lieberman Point Guard of the Year Top Five Finalist is ballin’ out, postin’ career-best numbers in five spots: 18.8 points a game, 42.4% from the field, 6.9 dimes a game, 2.16 assist-turnover ratio, and 1.0 steals a game. Plus, she’s hittin’ 2.4 triples and grabbin’ 2.1 boards a game. She’s on another level!
She’s dropped double digits in all but one of her 27 games this season, and 12 times she’s gone for 20 or more. Get this, she had six straight 20+ point games this 2024-25 stretch, straight cookin’!
Against No. 13/12 Oklahoma, she tied the school record with a career-high 43 points in a W, only the fifth DI women’s baller to hit that mark this year. She threw in eight assists too, makin’ her the only SEC player since at least 2002-03 to drop 43 and eight in one game. Wild!
Amoore’s been runnin’ the assist game, leadin’ the nation or Power 4 for most of the season, sittin’ third nationwide and second in Power 4 with 6.9 a game. That’s good for second in UK history, and ain’t no Wildcat cracked the top 10 in 15 years! She’s 18 assists shy of breakin’ the school record at 209, y’all, that’s close!
She’s got 18 games this season, eight in SEC play, with at least 15 points and five assists, more than any SEC player since 2002-03. In 16 league games, she’s damn near 50% of the team’s juice, leadin’ with 326 points and 263 more from assists.
Check this, she’s the only DI player, men or women, with 2,000 career points (2,379) and 800 assists (848). She’s just the third woman in DI history to hit 2,300 points and 800 assists, sittin’ pretty with Caitlin Clark and Sabrina Ionescu. Legends only!
She’s splashed seven or more threes in three games this year, first Wildcat ever to do that in a single season. She’s 19 triples away from the school record at 84. Amoore’s out here makin’ history, y’all, and we lovin’ every second of it!
Clara Strack
SEC Defensive Player of the Year, All-SEC Second Team, SEC All-Defensive Team
We gotta chop it up about Clara Strack, the sophomore center who’s a Lisa Leslie Center of the Year Finalist! She’s the only DI women’s baller this season to hit these wild stats in at least one game: 25 points, 15 boards, eight dimes, eight blocks, five steals, and three triples. That’s versatility on lock, bruh!
She’s cookin’ this year, averagin’ 15.3 points a game, 9.5 rebounds a game (fourth in the SEC), 2.7 assists a game, and 2.5 blocks a game (tops in the league, ninth in the nation).
Lately, she went off for 46 points, 23 boards, six assists, and five blocks across a big W over No. 11/11 Tennessee and a clutch nailbiter at No. 6/6 South Carolina. Against Tennessee, she smashed two school records: went 11-for-11 from the field (1-for-1 from deep) for the best single-game FG% ever at UK, and broke the single-season block record with 70 so far in 2024-25. She’s the only DI women’s player since 2002-03 to go perfect on that many shots against an AP Top 15 squad, and the only one to drop 23 points, 15 boards, three blocks, and two assists against a Top 25 team in that span.
At South Carolina, she was the first since UConn’s Gabby Williams in 2017 to hit 23 points, eight boards, four assists, two blocks, and a steal against USC, and the only one to do it in Columbia since at least 2002-03.
If the season ended now, her 2.5 blocks a game would be a UK record. She also set the single-game block mark with eight at Ole Miss on Feb. 10. This Wildcat’s got 23 double-digit scoring games out of 28, includin’ 15 with 15+ and eight with 20+. Plus, she’s got 13 double-doubles, third-most in the SEC.
Strack led a trio of UK players all averagin’ over 9.0 boards at one point this season, just the fifth trio in DI women’s history to do that. She’s dished multiple assists in 20 games, peakin’ at eight against NKU on Nov. 7. And don’t sleep on her range, she’s hit 15 threes this year, goin’ a career-best 3-for-5 in a dub at No. 13/12 Oklahoma on Feb. 2. Strack’s out here ballin’ and breakin’ records, y’all!
