Whether moving the disc or racking up points, these players were the best to do it in 2025
November 18, 2025 by Edward Stephens and Alex Rubin in Awards
Ultiworld is pleased to announce our annual Club Awards. 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. The Club Awards are voted on by Ultiworld reporters, contributors, and editors.
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 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
2025 Men’s Division Offensive Player of the Year
Mac Hecht (Revolver)
I can’t remember exactly when it was that I realized that Mac Hecht was giving us one of the greatest offensive performances in the history of club play, but it probably happened in the second half of Revolver’s semi against Rhino Slam!. Hecht had played a perfect first period: cool, lively, decisive, and dangerous. That first half, full of precision hucks, had not been an unexpected flare-up by any means – he had been the starting point of Revolver’s best-in-class offense all season, and he’s been a generational deep thrower since his college days at Brown. But a championship team as good as Rhino would be prepared to employ some counteracting strategies in the second half, namely assigning Henry Ing and Lukas Ambrose to push him away from the disc. Hecht skittered away from Ing three times in one possession early in the half, but it was perhaps his goal line cut to set up Revolver’s 14th score that showed his character best, fighting the arms, finding the space, and taking exactly two seconds to scan the entire endzone before icing the point over the top, his fourth assist of a turnover-free masterpiece. (Two points later he fought through Ing’s coverage for another crucial pass as Revolver held for the game.)
Something about the way he continued to produce for Revolver in that game outside his comfort zone made it clear that he had reached a higher plane of ultimate. Of course he would keep up the great work in the final: he was living a charmed existence. Every disc traveled every line with just enough velocity and just the right edge at precisely the right time for beating Machine’s tightly wound defense. By the time he back-shouldered a deep crossfield forehand out of Nate Goff’s reach for his sixth assist and made the Revolver championship official, it would have been reasonable to assume he was enjoying the benefits of a devil’s bargain.
In reality, though, there was no black magic. The only deal Hecht made was with himself. The person we saw on the field throughout the entirety of 2025 – the guy who could sit a backhand swing upon a shelf of air for an hour if a swing pass required it, whose deep shots were dimes not only in the sense that you’d rate them 10/10 but because it felt like he could probably hit a ten-cent piece out of the air from 50 yards, who charted hitherto unimagined release points to beat every lanky mark thrown at him, who had a 99.999% success rate sniffing out poaches, who released backhands mid-gallop that flew with all the stability of a Kubrick tracking shot, whose hammers without so much as a hint of inverting their helix plummeted like lead into a receiver’s waiting arms – was the product of intense, concentrated training. It carried Revolver to a title, and it will carry a legend for years to come.
– Edward Stephens
First Runner-up
Christian Boxley (Truck Stop)
Broadly speaking, suspense is the result of knowing that something is going to happen without knowing exactly when. The classic example from film is showing a bomb underneath a table, and then panning to two people having a conversation at the table; suspense is the knowledge that the bomb will go off. There was no closer analog in ultimate this season than watching Truck Stop’s O-line take the field. The offense (and the opposing team’s defense) went about their business as if unaware there was a danger. Those of us watching were riveted at the edge of our seats in anticipation of Christian Boxley’s inevitable going off.
He always did. Sometimes it happened early in the point for a set deep play that was the most reliably successful away look in the division in 2025. Sometimes it took shape in the middle of the field with a cartoon dash toward the sideline, leaving a defender coughing on blades of grass or turf pellets and hopelessly out of position for Boxley’s give-and-go. Or, in the most excruciatingly suspenseful moments, the fuse burned long enough to reach the red zone before exploding in a single, devastating step. Those sudden moments when he dropped a shoulder inside his defender or pumped his fists as he planted from a jump-cut or simply turned to face the goal box – and the liquid way his potential energy became pure unstoppable motion – were final and cathartic.
– Edward Stephens
Second Runner-up
Tobe Decraene (DiG)
Just a few months after winning the UFA MVP award for his performance on the pro circuit, Decraene earns a podium spot in our club awards as well after a stellar club season. All summer and into the fall for DiG Decraene seemed to always be a step (or more) ahead of his defender. With a steady eagerness to improve and showcase his on-field prowess, Decraene took the field ready to attack open space for big cuts or throw a teammate open with his quickly-developing field vision and sense for space. With determined drive, Decraene led Boston to a top seed at Nationals and was a consistent and electric performer on one of the division’s best O-lines.
– Alex Rubin
