These elite offensive players helped keep the points flowing for their teams.
June 16, 2026 by Calvin Ciorba in Awards
Each year, Ultiworld presents our annual College Awards. Our staff evaluates the individual performances of players from throughout the season, talking to folks around college ultimate, watching film, and look at statistics, voting upon the awards to decide those to be honored. The regular season and the college Series are both considered, with extra emphasis for performances in the competitive and high-stakes environment at Nationals.
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.
- All-American First Team
- Player of the Year
- All-American Second Team
- Offensive Player of the Year Award
- Defensive Player of the Year Award
- Breakout Player of the Year Award
- Rookie of the Year Award
- Coaches of the Year Award
- Full Awards Voting Breakdown
D-III Men’s 2026 Offensive Player Of The Year
Brayden Morrison (Elon)
Brayden Morrison was probably the most exciting recruit in the D-III Men’s division since Louis Douville Beaudoin. The USA U20 star immediately transformed an Elon team that had struggled to win important games at Regionals into a clear Nationals-caliber squad in freshman year.
This year, as only a sophomore, Morrison fully took over the rock for Big Fat Bomb, leading them all the way to their first-ever semifinal appearance. While his six goals and 21 assists may not jump off the page quite like some others on this list, those numbers do not capture how practically unguardable he was in the handler space or how consistently he delivered the right throws in clutch moments. With two more years left in his college career, Morrison’s trajectory is one of the most exciting in the division.
– Calvin Ciorba
First Runner-Up
Sammy Roberts (Oklahoma Christian)
If it feels like we’ve been talking about Sammy Roberts for years now, it’s because we have. Roberts began his illustrious career in 2021 by helping Oklahoma Christian win a national title, then followed it up with Rookie of the Year honors in 2022, Second Team All-American selections in 2024 and 2025, and now his first OPOTY nod in 2026. The Eagles have long trusted Roberts’ creative throwing decisions, and he has rewarded that trust by recording at least 20 assists at every Nationals since 2022, including a whopping 32 this year. Add in nine goals, and Roberts has cemented himself as one of the strongest offensive weapons in D-III men’s history.
– Calvin Ciorba
Second Runner-Up
Mikey Curtis (Berry)
Mikey Curtis first caught the attention of D-III fans with his ridiculous layout save at FCS, and since then, his growth trajectory has been a joy to watch. What started as huge bids and skies has evolved into huge bids, skies, and now hucks. Behind Curtis’s heroics — and his 22 goals and 13 assists — Berry went from a team most expected to miss Nationals entirely to a quarterfinals appearance.
– Calvin Ciorba
