Andrea Hoover

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Andrea Hoover
Personal information
Born (1992-09-09) September 9, 1992 (age 32)
Bellbrook, Ohio
NationalityAmerican
Listed height5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Listed weight155 lb (70 kg)
Career information
High school Spring Valley (Centerville, Ohio)
College Dayton (2011–2015)
WNBA draft 2015: 3rd round, 31st overall pick
Drafted by Los Angeles Sparks
Playing career2015–present
Position Guard
Number24
Career history
2015 Los Angeles Sparks
Career highlights
  • Atlantic 10 Player of the Year (2014)
  • 3x First-team All-Atlantic 10 (2013–2015)
  • Atlantic 10 Freshman of the Year (2012)
  • Atlantic 10 All-Freshman Team (2012)
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Andrea Hoover Holder (born September 9, 1992) is an American professional women's basketball guard formerly with the Los Angeles Sparks of the WNBA and the Dayton Flyers at the University of Dayton. [1]

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Hoover appeared in 12 games, including one start, with the Sparks during the 2015 season. She averaged 14.3 minutes and 3.8 points per game. [2]

High school career

Hoover played for Spring Valley Academy. [3] In her junior year, she averaged 17.0 points, 8.5 rebounds, 7.5 steals and 4.0 assists, and was also named to the ESPNU Class of 2011 Super 60 Players. [4]

Hoover had offers from Stanford and North Carolina State. [3] [4] However, most schools did not know about her, since Spring Valley Academy was not a part of the Ohio High School Athletic Association. [4] With Dayton recruiting her since her junior year, she decided to play for them. [5] Dayton also recruited Ally Malott. Together, they would end up as one of the best duos in Dayton basketball's history. [4] [3]

College career

Hoover and Malott were the only freshmen on a mostly senior-laden Dayton team for the 2011–12 season. [3] In the Atlantic 10 semifinals, Hoover grabbed a key defensive rebound and made two clutch free throws to hold off Temple. [6] Dayton went on to win the Atlantic 10 tournament championship. [7] With averages of 10.3 points (second on the team), 5.2 rebounds, and 1.9 rebounds, she was selected as the Atlantic 10 Freshman of the Year. [8] She and Malott made the Atlantic 10 All-Freshman Team. [9]

Hoover became the team's leading scorer in her sophomore season with 12.2 points per game. She was named to the First-Team all-conference and was also named to the All-Academic Team. [10] With a perfect 14–0 conference record, she helped earned the program’s first regular season Atlantic 10 championship title. [11] They finished the 2012–13 season with a record of 28–3. [12]

In her junior season, Hoover became the co-captain of the team. [13] She was the Atlantic 10 Women's Basketball Player of the Year as a junior, leading the Flyers to a second straight A-10 regular season title. [14]

In her senior season, Hoover was one of 50 players in women’s college basketball to be named to the Naismith Trophy Watch List. [5] She and Malott were also selected as nominees for the 2015 Senior CLASS Award. [15] In a win over St. Joseph, she broke the program's all-time career made three pointers. [16] That year, Dayton advanced to the Elite Eight, where they lost to UConn in a close match. [3] She finished her last season with averages of 17.4 points per game and also led the team in three point percentage. [17] [5] She was named as the A-10 Scholar-Athlete of the Year. [14]

Hoover finished fourth in career scoring with 1,848 points a game for Dayton, with career averages of 14.6 points and 5.6 rebounds a game. She also has the best career rebounding average of any guard in the program's history and holds the single-season record for free throw percentage (93.6%). [18] Alongside Malott, they appeared in four straight NCAA tournaments. In 2022, Hoover and Malott were inducted into Dayton’s Athletics Hall of Fame. [3] [18]

Professional career

Los Angeles Sparks

Hoover was selected 31st overall by the Los Angeles Sparks in the 2015 WNBA Draft. Along with Ally Malott (who was selected earlier at eighth by the Washington Mystics), they became the first women's players from Dayton to be drafted into the WNBA. [3]

Hoover only played one season with the Sparks, playing in 12 games before getting cut after the All-Star Game. Instead of playing overseas, she decided to return home to Bellbrook. [3]

Personal life

Hoover is married to Jake Holder. They have three daughters. She currently works as a cost/price analyst at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. [3]

In 2022, Hoover was inducted into the Butler County Sports Hall of Fame alongside Ally Malott. [19]

Career statistics

Legend
  GPGames played  GS Games started MPG Minutes per game RPG  Rebounds per game
 APG  Assists per game SPG  Steals per game BPG  Blocks per game PPG Points per game
 TO  Turnovers per game FG%  Field-goal percentage 3P%  3-point field-goal percentage FT%  Free-throw percentage
 Bold Career best°League leader

WNBA

Regular season

WNBA regular season statistics [20]
YearTeamGPGSMPGFG%3P%FT%RPGAPGSPGBPGTOPPG
2015 Los Angeles 12114.331.928.6100.01.30.30.20.10.73.8
Career1 year, 1 team12114.331.928.6100.01.30.30.20.10.73.8

College

NCAA statistics [21]
YearTeamGPPointsFG%3P%FT%RPGAPGSPGBPGPPG
2011–12Dayton3030037.3%33.3%77.0%5.11.91.10.310.0
2012–13Dayton3140144.0%40.3%77.0%5.52.21.30.112.9
2013–14Dayton3153745.3%37.8%93.6%5.43.61.30.217.3
2014–15Dayton3561043.1%45.6%89.3%6.33.21.60.317.4
Career127184842.9%39.8%85.5%5.62.71.30.214.6

References

  1. ↑ "Andrea Hoover – 2014–15 Women's Basketball" . Retrieved March 24, 2018.
  2. ↑ "Andrea Hoover WNBA Stats - Basketball-Reference.com". Basketball-Reference.com. Retrieved March 24, 2018.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Archdeacon, Tom (March 4, 2022). "Archdeacon: A hall-of-fame friendship". dayton-daily-news. Retrieved June 18, 2025.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Harris, Doug (November 18, 2010). "Area women's basketball standouts choose Flyers". springfield-news-sun. Retrieved June 18, 2025.
  5. 1 2 3 Miller, Steve (February 2, 2015). "Hoover a quiet leader with a loud resume – Flyer News: Univ. of Dayton's Student Newspaper". flyernews.com. Archived from the original on November 27, 2020. Retrieved June 18, 2025.
  6. ↑ "UD women upend Temple in A-10 tourney semifinals". springfield-news-sun. March 5, 2012. Retrieved June 18, 2025.
  7. ↑ Floriani, Ray (March 6, 2012). "2012 Atlantic 10 Women's Basketball Tournament Final: Dayton 56, St. Bonaventure 53, the numbers". Swish Appeal. Retrieved June 18, 2025.
  8. ↑ https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/sidearm.nextgen.sites/goxavier.com/documents/2012/2/29/12-a10-allconference-teams.pdf?timestamp=20150529124828
  9. ↑ "Wilson and Payne Earn Atlantic 10 All-Conference Honors". La Salle University Athletics. February 29, 2012. Retrieved June 18, 2025.
  10. ↑ "#11/11 DAYTON DOMINATES 2013 A-10 AWARDS". March 7, 2013. Retrieved June 18, 2025.
  11. ↑ "A LOOK BACK AT DAYTON'S 2012-13 WOMEN'S BASKETBALL SEASON". April 10, 2013. Retrieved June 18, 2025.
  12. ↑ Kallam, Clay (October 17, 2013). "Women's NCAA Preview". SLAM. Retrieved June 18, 2025.
  13. ↑ "Andrea Hoover | Women's Basketball 2014-15 | Senior CLASS Award". www.seniorclassaward.com. Retrieved June 18, 2025.
  14. 1 2 "HOOVER NAMED A-10 SCHOLAR-ATHLETE OF THE YEAR". University of Dayton Athletics. August 5, 2015. Retrieved June 18, 2025.
  15. ↑ "HOOVER, MALOTT SELECTED AS CANDIDATES FOR SENIOR CLASS AWARD". University of Dayton Athletics. January 23, 2015. Retrieved June 18, 2025.
  16. ↑ Cummings, John (February 16, 2015). "Hoover sets record, Flyers roll". dayton-daily-news. Retrieved June 18, 2025.
  17. ↑ Miller, Steve (April 18, 2015). "Women's basketball ending starts two players' dreams – Flyer News: Univ. of Dayton's Student Newspaper". flyernews.com. Archived from the original on August 4, 2020. Retrieved June 18, 2025.
  18. 1 2 "Mike Harmeyer, Andrea Hoover, Ally Malott-McCarthy & Mike Tucker To Join UD Hall Of Fame". University of Dayton Athletics. February 8, 2022. Retrieved June 18, 2025.
  19. ↑ Schools, Madison Local (September 7, 2022). "District News". Madison Local Schools. Retrieved June 17, 2025.
  20. ↑ "Andrea Hoover WNBA Stats". Basketball Reference. Retrieved March 10, 2025.
  21. ↑ "NCAA Statistics". web1.ncaa.org. Retrieved May 19, 2021.
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