New stars are emerging in the men's division
November 20, 2025 by Calvin Ciorba and Patrick Stegemoeller 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 Breakout Player of the Year may be the hardest-to-define award that we dole out each year. We aim to recognize players typically 25 years old or younger who weren’t widely expected to have a major impact on the club season at the start of the year. While their teammates or local community may have known about their talent level, their performance in the 2025 season thrust them into the national consciousness in a way that raises expectations for their contributions for years to come. Without strict parameters around what constitutes “too well known” at the start of the year, our voters are given the opportunity to decide for themselves who best represented their definition of a true breakout season in the club division.
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 Breakout Player of the Year
Elliot Hawkins (Johnny Bravo)
One of the biggest snubs from the college Rookie of the Year podium this spring, Elliot Hawkins gets his vindication by taking home the top spot on the BPOTY ballot after a stellar first Club Nationals appearance with Johnny Bravo.
Spending most of the college season acting as one of the main targets off the turn for Mamabird’s D-line, Hawkins stepped up to a role Johnny Bravo’s O-line and thrived. Often used as an initiating cutter out of a side stack or the primary yardage eater from the back of a vert, Hawkins showed a combination of straight line speed and field awareness that made him deadly even at the highest levels of the game. And as his stellar slashline from Nationals (12G/15A/2D) shows, he was more than capable of moving the ball with his throws, playing give-go around the goal line and putting out continuation hucks in flow.
Befitting a breakout player, it was a season of growth for Hawkins. He was certainly more polished at the end of the year than he was at the beginning. And as merely a sophomore in college there are of course points of his game that can be improved — some added guile and footwork on his cuts, defensive positioning that takes full advantage of his frame — but the player we saw at the end of the season is already a major contributor on a quarters-level Nationals teams. If he’s at this level as a teenager, it’s tantalizing to think what the next decade might bring.
– Patrick Stegemoeller
First Runner-up
William Wettengel (Machine)
As described in his podium finish for Defensive Player of the Year, one of the easiest ways to break out early in your club career is piecing up Ben Jagt on one of the biggest points of the season as part of a three-block game in the semifinals at Nationals. But it wasn’t just that block, or all of the blocks he had at Nationals, that got him on this list, it’s the clear potential he demonstrated over the course of the season to be a game changing defender in the club division for years to come.
– Patrick Stegemoeller
Second Runner-up
Raekwon Adkins (Revolver)
Despite already being one of the best college players for Oregon, Raekwon Adkins truly cemented his elite status this club season. As a starting cutter on the best team in the country who torched elite players all season, Adkins looked less like a college junior and more of a fully formed star, scoring eight goals with no turns. He fully earned and fully received the trust of the entire Revolver offense. The beauty of Adkins’s play was culminated in a big sky to win Revolver their first club championship since 2017, a perfect end to a fantastic breakout season.
– Calvin Ciorba
