Recognizing the top seven performers of the 2025 season.
June 9, 2025 by Edward Stephens, Alex Rubin and Patrick Stegemoeller in Awards
Each year, Ultiworld presents our annual College Awards. Our staff evaluates the individual performances of players from throughout the season, talking to folks around college ultimate, watching film, and look at statistics, voting upon the awards to decide those to be honored. The regular season and the college Series are both considered, with extra emphasis for performances in the competitive and high-stakes environment at Nationals.
Our All-American teams recognize the top performers across the division. While in the past Player of the Year has been awarded first, this year we open our Awards with our First Team All-Americans, displaying the top seven players who had the best seasons. Listed in alphabetical order, the First Team now serves as a finalist list for the Player of the Year Award, which will be announced live tomorrow on Deep Look.
- All-American First Team
- Player of the Year
- All-American Second Team
- Defensive Player of the Year Award
- Offensive Player of the Year Award
- Rookie of the Year Award
- Breakout Player of the Year Award
- Coaches of the Year Award
- Full Awards Voting Breakdown
D-I Men’s All-American First Team
Tobias Brooks (Colorado)
There were moments during the regular season when Brooks was less of an ultimate player and more of a Harlem Globetrotter, virtually freestyling in-game. The kicker is that no matter how flashy they were, the flourishes always felt essential — just as essential as his hard, unpredictable cutting and relentless pursuit of the catch. With Brooks leading the way in both panache and fundamentals, Mamabird’s O-line were simply terrifying all the way to the national championship game.
Dexter Clyburn (Cal)
This year’s Callahan Award winner, Clyburn put together combination of volume throwing, careful efficiency, and radiant joy that made him a deserving winner and helped him earn his first spot on the All-American First Team after making the Second Team during each of the last two seasons. His 31 assists at Nationals paced the division, and the seven blocks he tacked on reminded everyone that he’s still one of the game’s most fearsome defenders.
Ben Dameron (UNC)
How many players can claim a college career as bright as Dameron’s? With three titles under his belt, he now claims his fourth consecutive All-American selection – three straight on First Team. But this isn’t a lifetime achievement award: Dameron ran rampant every chance he got for Darkside in 2025, dizzying defenses with his nonstop butterfly cuts and casually tossing out the most polished array of break throws the division saw all year.
Elijah Diamond (Western Washington)
What. A. Season. Diamond was everything and everywhere for the overachieving DIRT side in 2025. Throughout their run to quarters, no player in the division was more reliable, more slippery, or more clutch than Western Washington’s leader. He banked 17 goals and 28 assists1 and led the Nationals darlings to consecutive universe point stunners – putting the frisbee world on notice in the process.
Mica Glass (Oregon)
The pup with big paws grew into an unquestioned top dog in his junior year at Oregon, garnering praise and fear in equal measure from opponents who found themselves trying to limit Glass’s impact. Bullying opposing defenses into a shape that suited his prerogatives and blunting every sharp point on other teams’ offenses with the force of his coverage, Glass was the key figure in Ego’s first trip to semis since 2018.
Declan Miller (Carleton)
The unquestioned leader of CUT’s resurgence this spring, Miller’s transcendent two-way play led Carleton to the title and earned him his first spot on an All-American team. His 2025 season — the impact of which his fat 12-goal, 18-assist, four-block statline at Nationals only begins to illustrate — will go down among the greatest ever for the storied program.
Anton Orme (Cal Poly SLO)
Orme carried a tremendous load this season as the top of Cal Poly SLO’s already top-heavy talent pyramid. On a team with championship ambitions but without championship depth, Orme’s well-rounded game was able to plug several roster holes and take Cal Poly to within two points of knocking off eventual champions Carleton in quarterfinals.
Good for the most and second-most of the tournament, respectively ↩
