Recognizing the top seven performers of the 2026 season.
November 9, 2026 by Edward Stephens, Alex Rubin, Patrick Stegemoeller and Aidan Thomas in Awards
Ultiworld is pleased to announce our annual Club Awards, starting with the All-Club First Team and Player of the Year finalists in each division. 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 All-Club teams recognize the top performers across the division. Our First Team and Second Team display the top seven and next seven players who had the best seasons. As our voting process is ordered, the top vote-getters for All-Club honors function as the ordered list in our Player of the Year voting — our highest individual award. The seven players listed here are finalists for the Player of the Year.
All-Club First Team
Player of the Year Award
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
All-Club 2026 First Team
Ben Dameron (PoNY)
Dameron’s power is still on the upswing. Between an unmarkable flick, a staggering pace of play, and the best give-go game this side of fellow First Teamer John Randolph, he plays the kind of ultimate that brooks no objection – neither from the defenders saddled with vain attempts to corral him nor from those of us lucky to get to sit back and watch him practice his incomprehensible magic.
Daan De Marrée (Machine)
Daan De Marrée polished off another exceptional season by coming three blocks shy of the fourth-ever triple double in the modern era of Club Nationals. De Marrée played both ways with regularity for Chicago Machine, threw the game-winning assist in quarterfinals, and notched a goal, two assists and two blocks in the final, polishing off a 16G/20A/7B statline.
John Randolph (PoNY)
After spending much of the season holding the PoNY offense together with jump cuts and snappy throws, John Randolph showed off his versatility with a move to defense for Nationals that highlighted his all-around abilities. A top cover who can blanket opponents, Randolph was crucial to PoNY’s efforts on both sides of the disc.
Mac Hecht (Revolver)
The Revolver attack remains virtually unimaginable without Hecht as its centerpiece. Though a second championship proved elusive, Hecht’s 17-assist, two-turnover performance was the spitting image of his 2025 brilliance.1 No other player sizes up a field in as many different ways and has the bag of throws to find paydirt in so many situations.
Matt Gouchoe-Hanas (Ring of Fire)
The longtime Ring of Fire captain became a two-time national champion this fall, and Gouchoe-Hanas polished it off with his first All-Club selection. Gouchoe-Hanas evolved into a more dynamic version of himself as Raleigh’s center handler, and he pushed his name into the POTY conversation with a 6G/3A/1B effort in the Pro Champs final. He committed just one turnover along with a 10G/5A/2B statline in a near-perfect Nationals, sealing his first-team selection.
Mica Glass (Rhino Slam!)
Just the third highest ranked member of his own team in Ultiworld’s player rankings pre-Nationals, Mica Glass emerged from San Diego as the undisputed A-1 option for Portland Rhino Slam! In the biggest games Glass rose to the occasion, walking off Pacmen on universe and throwing up a 4G/8A/2B/1T stat line across Rhino’s two bracket games. Injury issues slowed him up earlier in the year, but Glass put together a Nationals performance that shows he is both the present and the future of the sport.
Nate De Morgan (Sub Zero)
In 2025, Nate De Morgan took the college game by storm, launching backhand hucks and crossfield hammers that never seemed to miss while churning out open cuts and grinding out hard-nosed defensive points. In 2026, De Morgan proved he can do the same at the elite club level, stepping into a key two-way role for a Sub Zero team that finished their best season in 20 years in part due to his brilliance.
Hecht’s 2025: 19 assists and two turnovers in one fewer game. ↩
