Aaliyah Moore selected to Katrina McClain Award watch list

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Women’s Basketball sophomore Aaliyah Moore was named to the 20 participant watch list for the 2023 Katrina McClain Award, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) introduced on Thursday. 

Named after the two-time All-American and 1987 National Player of the Year Katrina McClain, the annual award in its sixth yr acknowledges the highest energy forwards in ladies’s NCAA Division I faculty basketball. A nationwide committee of prime faculty basketball personnel decided the watch list of 20 candidates. 

Moore emerged as a dominant submit presence for the Longhorns throughout their postseason run to the 2022 Big 12 Tournament Championship and return to the NCAA Elite Eight. Moore contributed 12 factors and 5 boards throughout the Big 12 Tournament Championship recreation victory over Baylor. Moore tallied a season-best 21 factors within the NCAA Tournament Round of 32 victory over Utah. 

2023 Katrina McClain Award Candidates*

*Players can play their manner onto and off the list at any level in the 2022-23 season

Fans are inspired to take part in Fan Voting, introduced by Dell Technologies, in every of the three rounds beginning Friday, October 21. In late January, the watch list of 20 gamers for the 2023 Katrina McClain Award can be narrowed to 10 after which in late February to simply 5. In March the 5 finalists can be introduced to McClain and the Hall of Fame’s choice committee the place a winner can be selected.

The winner of the 2023 Katrina McClain Award will be introduced on a to be decided date, together with the opposite 4 members of the Women’s Starting Five. Additional awards being introduced embody the Nancy Lieberman Award (Point Guard), Ann Meyers Drysdale Award (Shooting Guard), Cheryl Miller Award (Small Forward) and the Lisa Leslie Award (Center), as well as to the Men’s Starting Five.

Previous winners of the Katrina McClain Power Forward of the Year Award are NaLyssa Smith, Baylor (2021), Ruthy Hebard, Oregon (2018, 2020) and Napheesa Collier, Connecticut (2019).

For extra information on the 2023 Katrina McClain Award and the newest updates, go to hoophallawards.com and comply with @hoophall and #McClainAward on Twitter and Instagram.

About Katrina McClain-Pittman:

Katrina McClain-Pittman was a prolific rebounder and terrific scorer in a profession that spanned three Olympic Games and three continents. Before she earned her stripes for USA Basketball, McClain-Pittman starred on the University of Georgia the place she was a two-time Kodak All-American and the WBCA National Player of the Year her senior season. She left Georgia as the varsity’s second all-time main scorer and rebounder, averaging a double-double her ultimate two seasons in Athens. The Lady Bulldogs reached the 1985 NCAA Final Four and nationwide championship recreation with McClain-Pittman controlling the paint and Teresa Edwards operating the offense. The two-time USA Basketball Female Athlete of the Year completed her worldwide profession with two Olympic gold medals and one bronze, three FIBA World Championships medals, and 5 medals on the Goodwill Games, Pan Am Games, and World University Games. In all, McClain-Pittman appeared on eleven USA Basketball rosters turning into one of the vital embellished athletes in USA Basketball historical past. She has been inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame, the South Carolina Athletic Hall of Fame, the Georgia State Hall of Fame, and the National High School Hall of Fame, Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

About the WBCA:

Founded in 1981, the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association is the skilled affiliation for coaches of girls’s and ladies’ basketball in any respect ranges of competitors. The WBCA affords academic sources that coaches want to assist make themselves higher leaders, academics and mentors to their gamers; offers alternatives for coaches to join with friends within the occupation; serves because the unifying voice of a various neighborhood of coaches to these organizations that management the sport; and celebrates these coaches, gamers and different people who excel annually and contribute to the development of the game. For extra information, go to us on-line: WBCA.org, comply with @wbca1981 or name 1-770-279-8027.

About the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame:

Located in Springfield, Massachusetts, the town the place basketball was born, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame is an unbiased non-profit 501(c)(3) group devoted to selling, preserving and celebrating the sport of basketball at each degree – women and men, newbie {and professional} gamers, coaches and contributors, each domestically and internationally. The Hall of Fame museum is house to greater than 400 inductees and over 40,000 sq. ft of basketball historical past. Nearly 200,000 folks go to the Hall of Fame museum annually to be taught concerning the recreation, expertise the interactive displays and take a look at their expertise on the Jerry Colangelo “Court of Dreams.” Best recognized for its annual marquee Enshrinement Ceremony honoring the sport’s elite, the Hall of Fame additionally operates over 70 highschool and collegiate competitions yearly all through the nation and overseas. For extra information on the Basketball Hall of Fame group, its museum and occasions, go to hoophall.com, comply with @hoophall or name 1-877-4HOOPLA.