The Atlantic Coast Conference Tuesday announced its end-of-season honors for women’s basketball and named guard Aisha Sheppard and center Elizabeth Kitley First-Team All-ACC and selected freshman guard Georgia Amoore to the All-Freshman team.
The selection of Sheppard and Kitley marked the first team the Hokies have had two First-Team All-ACC members.
Sheppard concluded the regular season second in the conference in scoring at 19.38 points per game. She led the league with 84 threes, tying her own single-season record at Virginia Tech and cementing herself at the top of the charts in program history. Her 303 career treys rank seventh all-time in the ACC.
Her 77 made free throws were third in the league. She also averaged a career-best 3.2 assists this season.
Sheppard scored 20 or more nine times this season, including a 28-point effort as the Hokies earned the best win in school history, defeating then-No. 2 NC State 83-71 in overtime. She scored all of her points after halftime, including 18 in the overtime period alone.
She was recognized as the ACC Player of the Week on February 1 and is one of two players in the conference to record 10 or more points in every game this season.
Kitley ranks among the top four in the league in points (18.57), rebounds (10.9), field goal percentage (54.2), blocks (1.95 per game) and free throws (79), in addition to leading the conference in double-doubles with 13.
She is the only ACC athlete to register two 30-point scoring games this season and was one of two players to record a 20-rebound game, which she did in a contest vs. Wake Forest when she tied a school record with 21 boards
She was recognized as the ACC’s Co-Player of the Week on January 18 and recorded six games of 20 or more points this season.
Amoore averaged 11.2 points, 4.6 assists and 2.4 rebounds in 2020-21 as she earned a spot on the All-Freshman Team. The Australia native ranked fourth in the conference in assists and second in 3-point field goal percentage (42%).
She was awarded Freshman of the Week honors on February 15 after scoring 17 points on 5 of 6 shooting from beyond the arc and registering five assists and four steals in a 20-point win at Miami.
Her 11.2 points per game is the fourth-highest total for a rookie in the league. Her 97 total assists are by far the most for a freshman with North Carolina’s Deja Kelly in second place with 62 on the season.