Maddyn Greenway with coach Conner Goetz after scoring her 3,000th point last season. (Providence Academy Photo)
Georgia Amoore is clearly the leader of coach Kenny Brooks’ first team at Kentucky but she also could have a big impact on future UK teams.
Maddyn Greenway, a 5-8 junior point guard from Minnesota, has over 40 scholarship offers from many of the nation’s top programs but recently cut her list to six schools — Stanford, UCLA, Duke, Iowa, Clemson and Kentucky.
She is rated as the 18th best player in the 2026 recruiting class by ESPN’s HoopGurlz. She has led Providence Academy to three consecutive Class 2A state championships and had 30 points, eight assists and seven rebounds in the title game.
Greenway averaged 34.3 points per game last season, her second straight year averaging over 30 points per game.
Amoore is a major reason that Kentucky was on Greenway’s final list and a big reason that she verbally committed to the Wildcats Saturday.
“he way that he lets her run the offense in transition and play creatively and do all the things that she’s really good at, he fully supports her and gets her to be the best point guard that she can be. I really trusted him when he said that he could take me to that level,” Greenway told Talia Goodman of On3.com Saturday.
Providence Academy coach Conner Goetz was watching Virginia Tech play during Amoore’s sophomore season and had Greenway also watch how Brooks used Amoore and how much alike Greenway and Amoore were.
“That summer we got connected with coach Brooks and coach Rad (Radvile Autukaite, UK’s recruiting coordinator),” Goetz said. “A good relationship developed. Maddyn watched Virginia Tech’s Final Four run and kept watching Georgia.
“However, Virginia Tech was not a place she really wanted to go to. Once coach Brooks got the job at Kentucky she told me she would be kind of interested in playing in the SEC and wanted to check on Kentucky.”
Greenway has been Goetz’s starting point guard the last four years.
“She’s a special player. She was 13 years old in the seventh grade and averaged 20 points per game and now she’s at 34,” the coach said. “She plays similar to Georgia. Maddyn is a little taller but they just play a lot alike.
“Maddyn is a big fan of Georgia and I am also a huge fan of Georgia. She is so much fun to watch play and that Australian accent just makes her even more fun. You can tell she is a great teammate.”
Goetz was not surprised that Greenway had Kentucky on her final list. He helped handle a lot of her recruiting calls until coaches were allowed to call his star player directly.
“I was pretty aware of the fit with Kentucky. It was not a surprise Kentucky was in her top six knowing the relationship she has built with coach Brooks and his staff. Everything fits perfectly,” Goetz said.
Greenway has already scored 3,401 points and went over 1,000 points in each of the last two seasons. Last year she led the state in assists with 241 and has 758 career assists along with 767 rebounds, 490 steals and 38 blocked shots to go with her 3,401 points. She’s made 263 3-pointers — she is a career 35 percent shooter — and a career 77 percent foul shooter.
“She is a scoring point guard. She pushes our pace and tempo so much,” the coach said. “Our scoring has jumped tremendously in her career because she plays so fast. Our possessions have crept up. Because of her we take quick but efficient shots. She is always looking for the pass and that’s why she averaged almost 10 assists per game last year. Teammates shot a high percentage because she sets them up on a platter.
“Realistically, she averages close to a triple-double because she gets over eight rebounds a game and when she gets a rebound and we get out on the break, we are hard for other teams to stop.”
