These players put everyone on notice
November 20, 2025 by Edward Stephens 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 Women’s Division Breakout Player of the Year
Nora Luloff (Riot)
Nobody but nobody saw Nora Luloff coming on like this in 2025, not even her (justifiably no doubt very proud) parents and teammates. I mean, how can anybody guess you’re going to break out before you’ve so much as broken in? The Riot rookie – who, as I don’t think I’m allowed to go any further without mentioning, is a high school senior literally this instant at time of writing – entered elite women’s division club play like a blinding light. It was clear from the showcase she put on at Pro Champs, plying her trade as a force-of-nature cutter, that Luloff is a special player. Her athleticism matched favorably against many of the division’s long-established best, and her fearlessness perhaps topped the entire field. Attacking spaces and discs with equal parts resolution, calculation, and youthful exuberance, Luloff carved out a critical role for herself to ensure Riot had multiple scoring threats on the field, helping power their renaissance season in a big way.
No doubt she benefits on Riot from studying under veteran cutting savants Shira Stern and Abbie Abramovich, and that makes her rise even more exciting. Between the natural gifts that were apparent to anyone who saw her play so much as a point in 2025, the higher order craft she has already begun to employ in her approach to cutting, the never-say-die attitude, and the clear path to improve her game even more in the coming years, we may have witnessed the first bloom of a generational career. Stay tuned.
– Edward Stephens
First Runner-up
Taylor Conroy (Parcha)
If at the beginning of the 2025 season someone had asked you to list the most impactful transfers in club, you’d have gone pretty far down before getting to Taylor Conroy’s name. But the former Philadelphia AMP product’s intrastate, interdivisional shift to Pittsburgh Parcha proved to be a year-defining move. Conroy fit instantly into Parcha’s horizontal stack scheme, where her sense of timing and brutal on-disc attacks meshed like Swiss clockwork with the priorities of throwers Carolyn Normile and Annelise Peters. She was excellent from the first tournament – Parcha’s statement-making PEC East – through the end, and she has now made a name for herself as one of the premier downfield threats in the country.
– Edward Stephens
Second Runner-up
Elise Freedman (Brute Squad)
Every championship in team sports is a text with many authors, so it will come as no surprise to see (alongside established stars like Kelly Hyland, Liên Hoffmann, Angela Zhu, Levke Walczak, and Liv Player) Elise Freedman’s name printed on the Brute Squad 2025 title page. That being said, this season represented a monumental step forward for the Northeastern Valkyries product from her past efforts in elite club. All of a sudden, the Brute offense depended on her surgical lane cutting and artillery shell backhands. She shouldered that newfound responsibility well, raising the level of her game deep into the bracket as defenses grew stronger, notching key scores in the semis and the final. Based on Freedman’s performance this fall, it’s easy to imagine her as the team’s downfield centerpiece as soon as next year.
– Edward Stephens
