The masterminds behind the division's best teams
November 21, 2025 by Felicia Zheng, Edward Stephens and Graham Gerhart 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.
The Coach(es) of the Year closes our annual awards. As so many teams have added more and more sideline-savvy consultants to their roster with less asked of a single head coach, this has essentially morphed into “Coaching Staff of the Year.” Coaches can impact the game in so many ways — tactics, motivation, communication, personnel management, program development, skill-building, etc. — and it can be hard to divine what exactly each has contributed to their team. But good coaching is something that we feel that “we know it when we see it.”
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 Coach(es) of the Year
Rob Brazile, Danny Clark (Boston Brute Squad)
– Felicia Zheng
First Runner-up
Alyssa Weatherford (Seattle Riot)
Seeing the accumulation of young Seattle talent bubbling up to play elite women’s division club and imagining a great future for Riot is easy. Anybody can build castles in the air. Actually putting in the work to design and implement the structure on which it can happen, though, is significantly harder. That’s why Weatherford’s work to push the raw material – players like Carly Campana, Ikran Elmi, Lauren Goddu, Chloe Hakimi, and Nora Luloff – of the potential Riot renaissance into actual on-field greatness was such a praiseworthy accomplishment. They radiate confidence throughout the regular season, disarming opponents with rocksteady offensive possessions, defensive playmaking at every corner, and one hell of a zone. The fact that they couldn’t push as hard at Nationals as in the regular season doesn’t take any of the shine off of Weatherford’s incredible coaching performance.
– Edward Stephens
Second Runner-up
Seth Reinhardt, Dmitry Suvorov (New York BENT)
It may seem unintuitive, but the first day of a tournament is often the best time to assess the talent of a team’s coaching staff. The game plan of teams who have had time to prepare for their opponents is where the finesse of coaching can shine through. BENT were one of those teams that came out hot on day one at every tournament they attended, and they punctuated that by winning Pool D at Nationals. Their win over Riot in pool play was nothing short of a masterclass in coaching: the defense knew their matchups, knew what they had to take away, and knew how to make Riot’s throwers uncomfortable. Even in the loss that ended their season, it was clear BENT had a defined system in place that they were employing to take down Denver, and came one point shy of their first semifinals berth despite not even making prequarters the year before. That’s the sign of a well-coached team.
– Graham Gerhart
