Recognizing the next seven top performers of the 2025 season.
June 11, 2025 by Grace Conerly, Felicia Zheng and 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 we have closed our Awards with our First Team and Second Team, displaying the top seven and next seven players who had the best seasons, they have been moved up in the schedule.
- Player of the Year
- All-American First Team
- 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 Second Team
Laura Blume (UC Santa Barbara)
There’s a good argument to be made that nobody deserved the 2025 Callahan Award more than Laura Blume. Blume worked her way up through the ranks the hard way, picking up the sport far later than most of her All-American peers and still managing to become a dynamo in every sense of the word. Managing a tremendous workload for the Burning Skirts with unmatched fire, she practically set the field ablaze every time she laced up.
Ella Bolan (UBC)
Bolan was the engineer of Thunderbirds’ offense. Her crisp throws and quickness in small spaces kept the UBC O-line churning. Her skill carried over to the other side of the ball as one of the primary crossover players for UBC. After launching the most important throw on universe point, Bolan takes a more-than-deserved spot on the All-American team.
Naomi Fina (Carleton)
Naomi Fina is the kind of player who demands your attention every time she steps onto the field because her acceleration and pure quickness set her apart in the division. In 2025, Fina rose to the occasion for Syzygy, seamlessly filling key roles by both keeping the offense moving from the backfield and aggressively attacking spaces downfield. Her relentless determination to pursue every disc until it hits the ground resulted in a string of spectacular plays, especially during the most critical moments of the postseason. With yet another dominant season under her belt, Fina has earned her rightful place on the All-American Second Team.
Grace Maroon (Penn)
You may not realize it, but Grace Maroon finished top-3 in assists at Nationals (25) – and also added on nine blocks to lead Venus to the bracket. The bloated statline underscores how valuable she was to the Penn program all year long: playing every big point, making every tough through, and gritting her teeth through every defensive matchup. It all added up to one of the most complete performances of the year.
Kat McGuire (Michigan)
If McGuire wore a GPS tracker on the field, it would read over a marathon’s worth of distance each day at Nationals. She was everywhere for Flywheel: taking the toughest matchups, generating yards with her legs, and throwing picture perfect throws. As an undeniable athlete, other teams could only hope to contain her impact. She leaves college with another well deserved All-American selection along with a hefty haul of stats.
Lia Schwartz (Tufts)
Lia Schwartz’s throwing game, always worthy of attention, became legendary in the spring of 2025 as she led EWO through victory after victory at gusty field site after gusty field site. While the team’s undefeated dream didn’t quite make it out of the burning-hot crucible of Nationals intact, Schwartz’s reputation did. The O-line dream kept finding ways to put the disc into the endzone for her fortunate stable of cutters.
Caroline Stone (Vermont)
What really stood out about Stone’s game this season was her field vision and creativity as a thrower. Her ability to scope out the defense and subsequently slice through coverage with a well-placed, perfectly weighted throw — all in the span of seconds — is what put her amongst the division’s elite. And that’s on top of well-established aspects of Stone’s game such as her intense defense and impressive hops. Even in their rocky semifinal against UBC, Stone remained a bright spot for the the team, assisting five of the six points Ruckus scored that game. She adds her first All-American nod to her trophy cabinet.
