All-Club 2026: First Team (Women’s Div.)

Recognizing the top seven performers of the 2026 season.

Brute Squad’s Liv Player unleashes a backhand at the 2026 Club National Championships. Photo: Sam Hotaling – UltiPhotos.com

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

 

Molly Brown’s Carmen La Gala uncorks a backhand down the sideline at the 2026 US Open. Photo: Kevin Leclaire – UltiPhotos.com

Carmen La Gala (Molly Brown)

What a club debut for the European star! La Gala was one of the prime replenishing forces for a rejuvenated Molly Brown side. Her defense was never less than stellar, her generalship of counterattacks ranked among the division’s best, and her nose for the goal box was without equal.

 

 

Claire Trop of Washington DC Scandal makes a snag at the 2026 US Open. Photo: Derek Frazer – UltiPhotos.com

Claire Trop (Scandal)

Scandal’s 28-1 season had many architects, but at the end of the day it was yet another breathtaking performance from Trop that left the lasting impression. Refusing to cow to Brute Squad’s zone in the final, she bit into it even as the rest of Scandal’s attack faltered. Trop’s utter undeniability lands her a sixth consecutive All-Club First Team appearance.

 

 

Scandal’s Cami Groom secures the catch in the final of the 2026 US Open. Photo: Derek Frazer – UltiPhotos.com

Kami Groom (Scandal)

No one in the division runs harder, expends more effort, or grinds out a point quite like Kami. Her sixteen goals was good enough to lead the pack over the course of the Nationals weekend. The goals paired nicely with eight assists and four blocks, while only accounting for three turns. Groom’s consistent elite ability continues to set her apart.

 

 

Boston Brute Squad’s Levke Walczak gets off a backhand in semis at the 2026 US Open. Photo: Derek Frazer – UltiPhotos.com

Levke Walczak (Brute Squad)

The global star makes her fourth career appearance on the All-Club First Team, and she may have put in her best shift yet on the American circuit. Walczak led a blistering Brute Squad championship effort with her signature tirelessness and a backhand that found friendly hands in the end zone time and again.

 

 

Brute Squad’s Liv Player unleashes a backhand at the 2026 Club National Championships. Photo: Sam Hotaling – UltiPhotos.com

Liv Player (Brute Squad)

Player started the season slowly thanks to a nagging injury, but by the time Nationals entered the most critical stages she was pure Liv: She posted a combined three goals, four assists, and two blocks in the semi and final. It’s hard to know whether her quick-release forehands or her trenchant deep cutting was the more unstoppable skill. Either way, she put in a championship performance for a championship team for the second consecutive year.

 

 

Flight’s Quincy Booth rears back a forehand at the 2026 Club National Championships. Photo: William “Brody” Brotman – UltiPhotos.com

Quincy Booth (Flight)

QB1 had already cemented her legacy when she topped the D-I college career assist leaderboard, and continued this dominance with the highest recorded assist count at a single club Nationals. The Georgia product has made a name for herself as one of the strongest throwing threats in the nation, and has now joined the race for all time club assists.

 

 

Denver Molly Brown’s Valeria Cárdenas tracks down a disc at the 2026 US Open. Photo: Derek Frazer – UltiPhotos.com

Valeria Cárdenas (Molly Brown)

Still one of the best throwers in the world, Valeria’s season was a true return to form. Valeria is ferocious when the disc isn’t in her hands, knifing into open space and shaking even the most tenacious defender to get open. With the disc she’s surgical, dicing up zones and punishing the smallest missteps in person to person.

 

 

  1. Zack Davis
    Zack Davis

    Former D-III player for Spring Hill College, poached on the breakside. Follow on Bluesky if you want. @zackthescribe.bsky.social

  2. Edward Stephens
    Edward Stephens

    Edward Stephens has an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College. He writes and plays ultimate in Athens, Georgia.

  3. TJ Lee
    TJ Lee

    TJ Lee is a D-III Women's writer from Salem, Oregon. He began playing in 2021, and has won two D-III national titles with Oklahoma Christian University. He is currently playing for the OC Eagles while pursuing his masters. You can reach out to him via email ([email protected])

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