Basketball standout Maya Moore is the best Athlete of the year 2010 and has been winner of Broderick Cup. Moore, a native of Jefferson City, Missouri, grew up in Lawrenceville, Georgia. She helped her team attain an NCAA record of 78 successive wins over two seasons, as well as its sixth indomitable season and second straight NCAA National Championship.
Moore ruined the season averaging 18.9 points and 8.3 rebounds, and scored in double figures 34 times. She completed the 2009-2010 season with 736 points, the second most points scored in a season by a UConn player (the most was 754 pts in 2008-09, also achieved by Moore herself). So far in her profession Moore has scored 2168 points, with 963 rebounds and 243 three-pointers. She is also the first junior in the program’s history to score over 2000 points.
She received both the 2010 NCAA Final Four Most stupendous Player and DaytonRegional’s Most Outstanding Player award and is a three-time AP First Team All-American. A Sports Marketing and Media chief with a 3.85 GPA, she has been privileged this year as the Big East Scholar Athlete of the Year, ESPN Academic All-America of the Year, CoSIDA Academic First-Team, 2010 Wade Trophy winner and Wooden Award finalist.