Recognizing the top performer of the 2025 season.
June 10, 2025 by Theresa Diffendal 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.
After announcing the finalists in our First-Team All-American, we are proud to present Player of the Year, our most prestigious award. Our Player of the Year winner is the best performer of the 2025 college season, and the highest vote-getter for All-American honors. The winner is not eligible for consideration in any of our other individual awards. The runner-ups are the second and third most vote-getters.
- 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-III Women’s 2025 Player Of The Year
Zoe Costanza (Haverford/Bryn Mawr)
Zoe Costanza plays like she has one mode: full send. Whether it’s OI flick hucks from any position on the field, layout blocks on too-slow receivers, or logo-worthy bidding scores, Costanza plays with a fire few on the field can match. “Electric” is the word most often used to describe such players, but watching Costanza out-juke, out-flick and out-bid every matchup teams present her is more akin to seeing a cannon repeatedly fired straight through an opponent’s best-laid plans.
Costanza’s rise to the top of the division should come as no shock to D-III fans; with three consecutive triple-doubles at Nationals, two consecutive First Team All-American nods, 2024 OPOTY runner-up honors, and recipient of the 2025 Donovan award, there is no more decorated player in the women’s D-III division right now.
In many ways, her ascendancy has mirrored the success of her team, Haverford/Bryn Mawr. From every-once-in-a-while Nationals attendees in the 2010s, the Sneetches have played their way to the big stage for four straight seasons–every year Costanza’s been on the team, not so coincidentally–and never missed the bracket. While the Sneetches are a deep team, Costanza is the central cog that has churned Haverford/Bryn Mawr closer to the final every year.
And indeed, in Costanza’s senior year, the Sneetches appeared in the program’s first-ever championship game. Even when faced with their toughest test in Wesleyan, Costanza provided constant outlets in all facets of the game as a reset, connector, and downfield threat. Her play-making and guidance were consistent energy injections to the spirited squad, and her dedication to her teammates was readily apparent as one of the only Sneetch seniors to miss their graduation ceremony in order to play on day one of Nationals.
Highlights, spirit and leadership were Costanza’s signature brand of triple threat, and for that she was our staff’s nearly unanimous pick for Player of the Year.
Player of the Year Runner-Up
Ella Widmyer (Middlebury)
Player of the Year Second Runner-Up
Scout Noble (Wesleyan)
