These players will represent the US in Under-20 competition at the 2026 World Junior Ultimate Championships.
December 15, 2025 by Ultiworld in News
On Monday, USA Ultimate released the three rosters for the Under-20 USA National Teams that will compete at the 2026 World Juniors Ultimate Championships in Logroño, Spain, in July 2026. The US had their streak of golds broken at the 2024 event, with the Women’s division team taking home silver to go with golds in the Open and relatively new Mixed divisions. 216 players were announced as invited to tryouts to form the pool from which these 72 athletes were selected.
This group has double the number of returners as the previous iteration, bringing back nine players from the 2024 contingent: Ashima Gandhi, Elise Hetland, Sarek Mallareddy, Katie Stack, Jonah Yang, Stefan McCall, Emily Kretschmer, Ellie Cymrot, and Violet Yap.
Head Coaches
Mixed Division: Martin Aguilera
Women’s Division: DeAnna Ball
Open Division: Reid Koss
Here are the 72 players selected to the three US U20 National teams.
WOMEN’S DIVISION
| Player | Hometown |
|---|---|
| Sydney Belfiore | Yarrow Point, WA |
| Lily Brooks | Durham, NC |
| Haley Chau | Minnetonka, MN |
| Lily DiGioia | Kirkland, WA |
| Mia Fischer | St. Paul, MN |
| Eva Gartland | Decatur, GA |
| Lilly Hodges | Swarthmore, PA |
| Joyce Hui | Seattle, WA |
| Kyla Hurt | Eugene, OR |
| Talia Knox | Seattle, WA |
| Emily Kretschmer | Silver Spring, MD |
| Ellie Lemberg | Newton, MA |
| Nor Luloff | Seattle, WA |
| Kari Manzo | Chevy Chase, MD |
| Cora McCabe | Ithaca, NY |
| Isadore McCune | Liberty Township, OH |
| Samantha Montgomery | Lexington, KY |
| Kumari Okumura | Minneapolis, MN |
| Alysha Parshall-Matylas | Northampton, MA |
| Alice Rieger | Swarthmore, PA |
| Julia Segre | Berkeley, CA |
| Lou Shernoff | Seattle, WA |
| Amelia Welsh | Seattle, WA |
| Violet Yap | Alameda, CA |
OPEN DIVISION
| Player | Hometown |
|---|---|
| Muhammad Awais | San Francisco, CA |
| Evan Benoit | Montpelier, VT |
| Aage Bonnell | Seattle, WA |
| Owen Erdman | Philadelphia, PA |
| Will Fath | Ambler, PA |
| Nikolas Goodrum | Mercer Island, WA |
| Danny Hobday | Saint Paul, MN |
| Ben Holland | Washington, DC |
| Blake Holt | Hyde Park, UT |
| Joe Lodahl | Saint Paul, MN |
| Simon Logan | Louisville, CO |
| Son Mai-Clark | Santa Cruz, CA |
| Noah Malla | Seattle, WA |
| Reggie Masket | Oakland, CA |
| Stefan McCall | Berkeley, CA |
| Lane Mires | El Cerrito, CA |
| Tanner Monohan | Seattle, WA |
| Caoba Nichim-Luta | Montclair, NJ |
| Suriya Sethi | Bellevue, WA |
| Joel Simon | Bala Cynwyd, PA |
| Jude Small | Seattle, WA |
| Sawyer Thacker | Madison, AL |
| Finn Thaler | Louisville, CO |
| Ely Vaquerano | Oakland, CA |
MIXED DIVISION
| Player | Hometown |
|---|---|
| Ally Adair | Minneapolis, MN |
| Eva Armstrong | Portland, OR |
| Ethan Austin-Cruse | Avondale Estates, GA |
| Bridget Barnett | Seattle, WA |
| Silas Bell | Logan, UT |
| Max Coe | Lexington, MA |
| Wyatt Cook | Portland, OR |
| Ellie Cymrot | Fredericksburg, VA |
| Ashima Gandhi | Atlanta, GA |
| Henry Garcia | Alameda, CA |
| Imogen Gatewood-Wolfe | San Jose, CA |
| Arisa Gilbert | Boulder, CO |
| Elise Hetland | Durham, NC |
| Walter Hipps | Edina, MN |
| Dre Jackson | Washington, DC |
| Emilee Jensen | Bountiful, UT |
| Sarek Mallareddy | San Francisco, CA |
| Rina Meschke | Yardley, PA |
| Henry Mullen | Carrboro, NC |
| Gretchen Schmitt | Vienna, VA |
| Katie Stack | Swarthmore, PA |
| Bodhi Weston | Austin, TX |
| Jonah Yang | Seattle, WA |
| Colin Zeng | Ann Arbor, MI |
