Recognizing the next top seven performers of the 2025 season.
November 12, 2025 by Felicia Zheng, Edward Stephens and Anna Browne in Awards
Ultiworld is pleased to announce our annual Club Awards, continuing with the All-Club Second Team. While we consider both regular season and postseason performance, because of the nature of the Club division, we weight success in the Series and at Nationals above all else.
Our All-Club teams recognize the top performers across the division. Our First Team and Second Team display the top seven and next seven players who had the best seasons. The Club Awards are voted on by Ultiworld reporters, contributors, and editors.
Player of the Year Award
All-Club First Team
All-Club Second Team
Offensive Player of the Year Award
Defensive Player of the Year Award
Breakout Player of the Year Award
Coach(es) of the Year Award
Club Awards Voting Breakdown
Snubs and Superlatives
All-Club 2025 Second Team
Alex Barnett (Phoenix)
Workhorses don’t normally get the same praise as stallions, until you see just how much a powerful workhorse can get done. After leaking handlers for a couple of off-seasons, Raleigh desperately needed Barnett to step up, a task she took on with ease. Against the world’s strongest backfield defenders, Barnett found openings where few other players could, and made the hardest of cuts and throws look easy.
Yina Cartagena (BENT)
Cartagena has for years epitomized what it means to be a center handler, and 2025 was no different. Commanding a high flying offense, she brought her calm, cool, and collected energy to put together an incredible 21 assists, as BENT were just a single point away from breaking through into the semifinalist tier in 2025. With a rapid release time, Cartagena is consistently able to throw her teammates open, a skill that is especially dangerous in the red zone.
Dawn Culton (Phoenix)
It’s hard to picture Phoenix, a perennial quarters-level Nationals team, without thinking of Culton. Despite being a high-mileage player, she brings a relentless energy to every point. Every cut, every block, every throw carries the same intensity and precision that have made her one of the division’s standout stars.
Kirstin Johnson (Fury)
Johnson sets the tone for Fury, embodying the team’s trademark defensive intensity and unshakable steadiness. Whether she’s locking down the opponent’s top playmaker or orchestrating the offense from the backfield, she always rises to the challenge. In every major moment this season, Johnson was impossible to miss.
Shayla Harris (Fury)
There were multiple occasions this season where everyone – fans, teammates, and opposing players alike – could do no more than stand in awe of Harris as she rose literally head and shoulders above other players on the field. Even outside of those posterizing moments, Harris was a force, using her extensive range to suck the disc into her gravitational well and keeping Fury pointed toward the endzone with one of the division’s premier backhand hucks.
Ella Juengst (BENT)
By this point everyone knows where Juengst wants to score, but knowing and stopping her are two very different things. A master of the front cone, Juengst has been honing other aspects of her game this year. Most notably of which is her role as a distributor. With the injury bug hitting teammate Genny De Jesus and Cartagena missing US Open, Juengst was forced to step into a larger role in the middle of the field, and step up she did. While she wasn’t throwing 40+ yard hucks, her give-and-go movement proved to be unstoppable everywhere on the field, not just at the goal line
Jordan Sorensen (Grit)
We have witnessed the birth of a star. If you weren’t watching Grit this season1 you missed a hell of a show. When Sorensen took the field, she took the field: there was no waiting around for the game to come to her. Few players in the division indeed made more of a habit of dictating on offense and defense. Her absurd Nationals statline barely communicates the deep mark she chiseled on Grit’s 2025.
Which, thanks to a paucity of Ultiworld video of the, is a sin easily forgiven ↩
