Maya Moore - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

• She was named to the U.S. U-18 National Team in 2006, and helped that team qualify for the 2007 U19 World Championships in Bratislava, Slovakia.
• In 2008, she became the first freshman in Big East Basketball history (men or women) to be named as the Big East Player of the Year.
• Through Moore's two seasons at UConn, Moore had only 3 games where she didn't reach double digits. Those games are a 7 point vs. Pittsburgh on March 10, 2008, 7 points vs. Rutgers on April 1, 2008 and 8 points vs. Villanova on February 24, 2009.
• Moore also broke the UConn single-season record for most points as a freshman (678) breaking the mark set by Svetlana Abrosimova, who had 538 in 1997–98.
• Scored her 1,000th career point on January 20, 2009 (in just her 55th game at UConn) at the XL Center in Hartford, Connecticut while scoring 40 points over the Syracuse Orange. The previous UConn record for the least games needed to reach 1,000 points was 63 by Svetlana Abrosimova.
• Maya Moore becomes UConn's all-time single-season scoring leader with 712 points, ends season with 754 points
• Moore finished the 2009–10 season with 736 points, the second most points scored in a season by a UConn player only to herself (754 pts in 2008–09). In addition, this brings her career total to 2,168 points, 178 short of the UConn record of 2,346 points held by her teammate Tina Charles.
• Moore was named the co-winner of the Honda-Broderick Cup (along with Megan Hodge from Penn State), awarded to the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year. The criteria include "outstanding athletic achievement but also team contributions, scholastics and community involvement".
• Moore won the 2010 ESPY Award for Best Female College Athlete.
• Moore was selected to play in a basketball game organized by President Barack Obama to entertain wounded troops. The players invited included some current and former stars: LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Carmelo Anthony, Bill Russell and Magic Johnson.
• Moore scored a career-high 41 points while adding 10 rebounds, 3 assists, 1 steal, and 3 blocks in UConn's historic 89th consecutive victory on Dec. 21, 2010 against 22/22 Florida State.
• In March 2011, Moore earned All-American honors, becoming the second four-time All-American women's basketball player.
• In April 2011, Moore was named Associated Press Player of the Year for the second time.

• Moore was selected Best Female Amateur Athlete by Connecticut Magazine for 2010
• In 2012, she won a gold medal with Team USA in the London Olympics