Hannah Hidalgo Named ACC Rookie Of The Year And Defensive Player Of The Year
Notre Dame point guard Hannah Hidalgo has been named the ACC’s Rookie of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year. The Haddonfield, NJ native is just the second player in Atlantic Coast Conference history to earn Defensive Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year honors in the same season, joining former Duke standout Elizabeth Williams in 2012.
Hidalgo was also named to the ACC’s first team. She finished in third place in the ACC’s Player of the Year voting. Virginia Tech center Elizabeth Kitley received the honor for the third consecutive year with 1,603 points in the voting. Syracuse guard Dyaisha Fair was second with 1,463 points. Hidalgo was just two points behind Fair with 1,461 votes.
Hidalgo’s Fighting Irish teammates Maddy Westbeld and Sonia Citron both landed on the All-ACC second team. Westbeld is averaging 14.1 points and is fifth in the ACC with 9.4 rebounds per game. Citron is averaging 16.3 points and leads the conference with a 90% free throw percentage.
Hidalgo leads the ACC in scoring at 23.8 points per game and leads the nation with 141 and 4.9 steals per game. The freshman point guard scored in double figures in all 28 games this season. She scored 20-plus points 24 times this season. It’s the most by an ACC player since Notre Dame’s Arike Ogunbowale did it 27 times in the 2018-19 season.
Syracuse head coach Felisha Legette-Jack received 293 points to garner ACC Coach of the Year honors. After being picked to finish ninth in the ACC’s preseason voting, she becomes the first-ever Syracuse coach to earn ACC Coach of the Year honors after she led the Orange to a 13-5 conference record and the No. 3 seed in the 2024 Ally ACC Women’s Basketball Tournament. Virginia Tech head coach Kenny Brooks, who led the Hokies to the regular season ACC championship, finished second.
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