Australian basketball participant Georgia Amoore has been chosen because the sixth draft choose the Washington Mystics within the WNBA. 

The 24-year-old from Ballarat performs faculty ball for the Kentucky Wildcats, however performed within the NBL1 for Ballarat Rush in 2019.

She performed 4 years with Virginia Tech earlier than making the shift to Kentucky for her last yr, following head coach Kenny Brooks.

She averaged 19.6 factors per sport for Kentucky, beginning 31 video games within the NCAA season. 

Amoore, a guard,  has represented Australia at youth stage in each basketball and 3X3, successful underneath age gold medals in each at Asia stage.

On the WNBA’s orange carpet, Amoore wore garments designed by NBA star Russell Westbrook, who has a clothes model referred to as Honor The Reward. 

Amoore mentioned Westbrook designed her outfit and was superb to work with since they first obtained collectively on a Zoom session final November.

The Washington Mystics, with a brand new coach and basic supervisor, had been very busy within the first spherical.

They chose Notre Dame’s Sonia Citron with the third choose, and Southern Cal’s Kiki Iriafen with quantity 4 earlier than Amoore was drafted.

UConn star guard Paige Bueckers was the general primary choose for the Dallas Wings.

Bueckers had drawn comparisons to retired WNBA legend Diana Taurasi lengthy earlier than highschool and her ascension to the primary choose within the draft was virtually a foregone conclusion after she hoisted the championship along with her Huskies earlier this month.

“You do not ever need to assume something in life,” Bueckers informed reporters after she hoisted the Wings jersey on stage in entrance of cheering followers on the Manhattan ceremony.

“It is a contemporary begin and we’re all able to do one thing particular.”

Bueckers and her UConn Huskies dismantled South Carolina 82-59 within the championship earlier this month, giving her the fairytale send-off she craved after overcoming a number of accidents in her faculty profession.

She earned the Naismith Trophy in her freshman yr however her collegiate profession almost derailed as she missed 19 video games throughout her sophomore yr as a consequence of a knee harm and sat out all the 2022-23 season after tearing her anterior cruciate ligament.

Dallas followers will hope that Bueckers, a famously environment friendly scorer with terrific defensive instinct, will give the Wings a elevate as they search to recuperate from a dismal 9-31 season.

Towering centre Dominique Malonga, who was a part of the silver medal-winning French Olympic basketball crew, went second total to Seattle.

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