LOS ANGELES, CA (March 10, 2024) – The Los Angeles Athletic Club announced its 2024 Women's National Ballot for the John R. Wooden Award presented by Principal Sunday afternoon. Selected by the Wooden Award National Advisory Board, the National Ballot consists of 15 student-athletes who are candidates for the Wooden Award All American Team and Wooden Award Trophy as the most outstanding college basketball player in the United States.
Voting will take place from March 19 to March 26 and voters take into consideration a player's entire season of play, as well as the opening rounds of the NCAA Tournament. The finalists for the 2024 Wooden Award presented by Principal will be announced on April 2nd.
These two have our vote 🗳️
— Virginia Tech Women's Basketball (@HokiesWBB) March 10, 2024
🦃 @georgia_amoore
🦃 @elizabethkitley pic.twitter.com/5KAo190ZkY
The Hokies, who were represented by Georgia Amoore and Elizabeth Kitley are one of three programs to have two athletes on the ballot joining LSU and Stanford.
The Summerfield, North Carolina native, Kitley won ACC Player of the Year for the third consecutive season and ranks second in the conference in scoring (22.79), second in field goal percentage (55.6%), first in rebounds (11.38), second in blocks (2.07), first in double-doubles (19) and first in 30-point games with eight.
She won ACC Player of the Week six times, the most of any athlete, including a stretch of four consecutive weeks in February. The six POW honors ties Beard for the most in any single season in conference history.
With her Player of the Year Award comes a fourth first team All-ACC nod, just the second player in conference history to accomplish the feat (Duke's Elizabeth Williams). Kitley was also recognized as an All-Defensive Team member for the third consecutive season.
Nationally, Kitley ranks second in field goals, trailing only Iowa's Caitlin Clark. She is sixth in points per game, rebounds per game and double-doubles.
She has claimed the top spot in several categories in the Virginia Tech annals this season including: starts, minutes played, double figure games, 30-point games and rebounds, which is also an ACC watermark.
In terms of single-season achievements, the 2023-24 season has seen Kitley produce the highest scoring average in program history, score the most field goals and come within six points of the record for single season scoring.
Point guard Georgia Amoore also earned first team All-ACC honors for the second consecutive season.
Amoore was sixth in the conference in scoring (18.71), second in 3's per game (2.79), second in assist to turnover ratio (2.10) and led the ACC in assists (7.29).
The Australia native owns two 30-point games, 14 20-point games and recorded nine double-doubles, a figure that was fifth in the conference. She was the only athlete to record more than five 10-assist games in the ACC.
Her 39-point performance on the final day of the regular season, was the highest scoring single-game output in conference play this season.
Amoore, who Monday was named one of five finalists for the Nancy Lieberman Award, is second nationally in assists and also ranks in the top 20 of 3-point shooters.
The senior became the program's all-time leader in assists this season and has also climbed to second in 3's and fourth in scoring. This season, she has produced the third-highest single-season total of assists and the seventh-most 3's.