The best players in the women's division in 2025!
November 7, 2025 by Sean Colfer in Awards
With the EUCS now in its second year with the revamped structure, teams and players had some more familiarity with the shape of the season, allowing units to better tweak their plans and assert their dominance on the field. Who rose above the pack and stood out this season? Here are your winners in the 2025 European Player of the Year awards.
Player of the Year
Charlotte Schall (BFD Shout)
Schall won her last European award based largely on her play as a hub handler for Germany women in 2023. With Anna Gerner injured, Schall took on a huge handling load and drove Germany to the European title. With Shout, her role is quite different. With excellent handlers like her World Games teammate Ava Müller and Elena Benghi taking more responsibility in getting the offense moving, Schall became an almost unstoppable hybrid player. She contributed all over the field and her remarkable layout catch near the end of the final was vital in ensuring that Shout won the EUCF title.
First Runner-Up
Lison Bornot (Mooncup)
Lison becomes the second Bornot in two years to win a silver medal in these awards1. She played brilliantly at the World Games for France and continued that form at EUCF, where she popped up all over the field for Mooncup as they tried to go one better than their second-placed finish last season. Unfortunately for her and her teammates, they came up against an extremely talented Shout roster and lost by a hair. Bornot has no holes in her game; she can generate offense as a thrower or a cutter, and is also a world-class defender. It’s a matter of time before she’s able to add an EUCF gold to her already-impressive resume2.
Second Runner-Up
Elena Benghi (BFD Shout)
Benghi has been growing in influence for Shout for some time, but this season was the one where she really became one of the central pieces of the offense. Despite her stature3, she thrives in short-space ultimate – give-and-go movement, pop passes and resetting the angle at which the offense is attacking. She has every throw in her arsenal, though, and when she needs to stretch the field out she can. Benghi, Müller and Susanna Casarini was a phenomenal handling trio this season, but Benghi edges her teammates to make the podium.
Offensive Player of the Year
Carmen La Gala (Mooncup)
La Gala was a strong candidate for this award last season, and was even better this year. She is one of the most aggressive downfield throwers in Europe and that ability, paired with Mooncup’s cutters, makes her one of the most dangerous players in the division. Her throwing has no real limit and her ability to get free downfield opens up the offense for her teammates. Already a world champion4, La Gala has been an ascending player for the last few years and will have another opportunity on the world stage soon at WBUC. Watch out for those hucks.
First Runner-Up
Nicole Lafiata (Tequila Boom Boom)
Lafiata joins her fellow Rimini native on the podium for this award5. Similarly well-rounded, Lafiata is another who can take shots downfield with remarkable consistency but also take off deep herself when needed. She paced Tequila Boom Boom in both goals and assists and EUCF, already an impressive feat, and also paced the entire tournament. Her 41 goal involvements were 11 more than anyone else6 as she was one of the main forces that propelled the Rimini-based team to a surprise semis berth.
Second Runner-Up
Chloé Ollivier (YAKA)
This season saw a thrilling return to form for YAKA at EUCF, with some of the younger players stepping into the roles that have been held by veterans for years. Ollivier was right at the forefront of that transition. She’s previously been one of the best defenders in Europe which masked her offensive ability somewhat, but she’s maybe the most consistently open cutter in the division. She scored 19 times for YAKA, was their release valve when they needed someone to get open and led the French team back to another European podium.
Defensive Player of the Year
Sinéad Dunne (BFD Shout)
Dunne has long been known as one of the best defenders in Europe and someone that offenses have had to gameplan around. A chance encounter inviting her to trial for Shout has resulted in a first EUCF gold medal to sit alongside her EUC gold from 2019. She is not only athletic enough to corral the best handlers, limit their options and get run through blocks at alarming frequency, she is smart enough to read what they want to do and create chaos in lanes. She’s an excellent hub after the turn as well and was a huge reason the Shout D line was so effective at EUCF.
First Runner-Up
Camille Blanc (Mooncup)
Blanc only played one tournament this season, but her impact at that tournament was so significant she comes in at runner-up here. It’s quite straightforward to describe why; Cami Block is the most athletic and impactful cutter defender in Europe. The amount of times she gets a hand on a disc that’s floating is remarkable, and given her youth7 it’s a little scary to think how good she may one day become.
Second Runner-Up
Maïwenn Le Duc (Mooncup)
The second of three absolutely terrifying, young cutter defenders on Mooncup8, Le Duc continues to add to her game and seems to be getting better and better with each tournament. Last year’s runner-up in breakout player was hugely disruptive to opposing offenses and managed to get some important blocks in big games. It’s a matter of time until she is an all-around nightmare.
Breakout Player of the Year
Lucrezia Grossi (Tequila Boom Boom)
Grossi has been one of the best players on a very solid Tequila Boom Boom team that finished 11th at EUCF in 2023 and didn’t make the tournament in 2024. This year, she became a central, dominant player on a team that reached semis. She is now clearly one of the best players in Europe and Italy and has to be accounted for by every defense. Pairing her throwing ability with Lafiata’s ability as a hybrid proved absolutely deadly, and will be an intriguing pairing at WUCC.
First Runner-Up
Dominika Hadová (East Block)
Hadová, similar to Grossi, was a player that we knew was good coming into the season. However, with East Block losing several of their best players to other teams, there were roles to be filled if the team was to keep its place at the top table of European ultimate. Hadová was the player who stepped up most strongly into that position, leading the team in assists but also in keeping the offense moving and bending opposing defenses to open space for her teammates. She has made it clear that she’s now the number one option on offense, and despite that roster changeover the Czechs still made quarters.
Second Runner-Up
Agata Benzi (Tequila Boom Boom)
Benzi was one of the best players for Italy’s under-20 team9 and followed that up with a strong showing for Tequila Boom Boom at EUCF. She was one of the main throwers for Italy, but flashed downfield ability for TBB at EUCF that suggests she has the makings of an effective all-around player.
Succeeding her sister Eva who was runner-up last year. ↩
World champion on the beach to go along with a European title and WUC and World Games bronzes with France mixed, as well as her two club silvers. ↩
Benghi is one of the taller players in the women’s division. ↩
With Margarita Mix’d on the beach. ↩
And will play with her for Italy mixed at WBUC in what looks to be a loaded team. ↩
23 assists led the division, and 18 goals finished third. ↩
Blanc turned 20 last week, and already has bronze medals at WUC and the World Games as well as golds at WBUC and WJUC. For a non-American that’s an insane collection. ↩
Apologies to Zoë Forget, who basically finished fourth here but is also absolutely sensational. ↩
Which provided several candidates for this list, watch out too for Arianna Ascari and Giorgia Pancotti of Shout in the next few years. ↩
