These elite offensive players helped keep the points flowing for their teams.
June 17, 2025 by Calvin Ciorba and Josh Katz 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 awards continue with the Offensive Player of the Year, recognizing the individual, and two runners-up, who we felt had the most impactful and productive seasons helping their teams score. They set up goals, finished off points, and produced yardage at consistently high levels against the top defenders.
- 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-III Men’s 2025 Offensive Player Of The Year
Jacob Felton (Davenport)
Don’t let the decline in his counting stats fool you; Felton’s sophomore season was just as astonishing as his ROTY campaign, and the division’s biggest mismatch is a worthy OPOTY recipient.
Everything for Felton on offense starts with his throwing ability. It’s impossible to gameplan for him, because he is truly a threat to hit any throw, to any spot, at any moment. Honestly, it might be a challenge to be a cutter on his line, because you have to expect a throw at all times. But that fact also makes it miserable to defend one of his receivers: you can’t take even a second off. If you do, Felton will sniff out the lapse in concentration, and lead his receiver to a spot even the receiver didn’t think was open. Just watch this assist from Davenport’s semifinal defeat to Middlebury. Rowan Jamieson loiters around in the deep space, his defender sags off for a step, and Felton leads Jamieson across the field for the score.
It’s not as if forcing him out of the backfield is any more attractive an option, though. Felton is just as comfortable operating downfield, where he uses an elite blend of athleticism and body control to dazzle defenses as a cutter. You can’t force him under, lest you put yourself back at square one with Felton holding the disc. But if you force him deep, he’ll just sky any defender he’s matched up with. A perfectly balanced offensive player, Felton’s brilliance is inevitable every time he steps on the field.
– Josh Katz
Co Runner-Up1
David Leder (Rochester)
Perhaps no singular player had better stats this year at Nationals than David Leder offensively. With 17 assists and 24 goals, Leder’s ability to find the end zone was unmatched. Leder’s size combined with his agility made it nearly impossible to guard him, as his reach allowed him to find the disc first every time before his footwork even needed to get him open. And when all else failed, his spin move on the strike cut was pretty much unstoppable. Leder’s impressive offensive performance, along with a quarterfinals appearance, made this award easy to give.
– Calvin Ciorba
Co Runner-Up2
Orlando Impas (Lewis & Clark)
While we knew last year Impas was a great player, the junior really came into his own offensively this year. Impas perfectly managed to use what he had all season– which was great throws, speedy resets, and a deadly lefty inside. With eight goals, sixteen assists, and only nine turns, Impas was the player who could make the necessary throws when Lewis & Clark needed to get off the sideline or into the end zone. Even when the stall reached eight on universe point of the National final, Impas’ fearlessness allowed him to throw the game-winning huck, capping off a wildly successful season.
– Calvin Ciorba
