Recognizing the top seven performers of the 2025 season.
June 9, 2025 by Edward Stephens 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 Women’s All-American First Team
Chagall Gelfand (Carleton)
The 2024 Rookie of the Year did not suffer any sort of sophomore slump. On the contrary, it was a sophomore soar as Gelfand maximized her talent. The throws? Crispiest in the division. The attitude? Unflappable. The defense? Simply dogged. The ability to put a whole team on her back? Unrivaled. 29 assists and a championship game later, she takes a well-deserved place on the First Team.
Lauren Goddu (Washington)
Electric is the only word for the way Goddu played in Element’s biggest moments at Nationals. When she wasn’t erasing the other team’s best player, you could find her skying her fellow All-Americans, beating defensive pressure with creative throws, transfixing the crowd with her footwork, or winning double-layout battles to catch game-winning goals. That’s some serious voltage.
Mika Kurahashi (UBC)
Kurahashi was the pre-eminent hybrid in the women’s division in 2025, both its most reliable initiating cutter and one of its most deep-pocketed forehand merchants. Even outside of her stunning late-game heroics in the final, her total defensive and offensive impact was overwhelmingly responsible for UBC’s title. This is the Canadian’s third consecutive All-American selection, and second on the First Team.
Clil Phillips (Colorado)
You won’t meet a competitor as game as Clil Phillips — not in ultimate or anywhere else. In 2025 she never saw a cutter she couldn’t frustrate with her out-position-you defense; she never saw a backhand look she couldn’t hit; she never saw a defensive scheme that could bottle up her ability to get to the disc. Quandary’s beating heart, Phillips earns a fourth straight year on the All-American list.
Devin Quinn (UC Santa Barbara)
There are players you can game plan for, and there are players like Devin Quinn. Away shots became foregone conclusions when the Burning Skirts took the field: with 14 goals and 8 blocks, Quinn had the deep game on lock. The fact that her throws were just as dangerous — she finished Nationals with 17 assists, essentially even with her Callahan-winning partner-in-crime, Laura Blume — put her over the top onto the First Team.
Abbi Shilts (UC San Diego)
Shilts ended her college career with a bang this spring, concentrating her already-legendary playmaking abilities to an even higher density. Not a half would pass without her making a play that would leave everyone in the vicinity speechless. Powerful as a chainsaw getting to the disc and smooth as artisan gelato once she had it, Shilts proved that she was much more than just the owner of the season’s best Callahan video.
Trout Weybright (Oregon)
How well do you have to play to earn a spot on the All-American First Team without a working forehand? The answer from here will have to be measured in Weybrights now that the 2023 Rookie of the Year has managed to endure a right hand injury, substitute lefties for flicks, and still put together a 10G/16A/8B line. He was both Fugue’s goal-scoringest threat and block-gettingest stopper en route to a very strong quarters finish.
