Whether moving the disc or racking up points, these players were the best to do it in 2026
November 13, 2026 by Graham Gerhart and Zack Davis 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.
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-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
2026 Women’s Division Offensive Player of the Year
Quincy Booth (Philadelphia Flight)
There’s a wide gap between being a talented thrower and being a generationally talented thrower. After what we just witnessed this season, it’s clear that Quincy Booth falls on the latter side. Talented throwers can hit open receivers anywhere on the field, but that’s a little too vanilla for Booth. How about throwing open a player open with limitless ease? That’s more in line with Booth’s skillset. Perhaps more importantly, Booth can launch a full-field huck from a standstill, and that’s a skill that even the most talented throwers in the division struggle to match.
In recent years, fronting defenses have become the norm in the women’s division. Stopping under cuts is at a premium. Booth forced opposing coaches to go back to the drawing board with this. You can’t sit under a cutter if Booth has them in her sights. Flight’s offense was able to abuse poaches and unaware defenders time and again just by having the disc in Booth’s hands and letting her cook. Considering how heliocentric Flight’s offense was, it’s a testament to Booth’s ability that no team was able to shut her down completely once she got in rhythm at Nationals.
It’s been five years since we last saw Booth at Nationals, which is far too long for a player of her talents. Here’s hoping 2026 is just the first in a long string of OPOTY considerations.
– Graham Gerhart
First Runner-Up
Carmen La Gala (Denver Molly Brown)
The European community warned us that La Gala would be a problem when she crossed over the Atlantic, but no one was prepared for the impact she would have at Nationals. La Gala had a solid regular season with Molly Brown, but was only truly unleashed in San Diego. The Denver squad handed the keys to their downfield offense to La Gala and let her get open as she saw fit. While her size and athleticism set up her offense, it was her field IQ that kept Denver’s offense humming. She was both the release valve and the piston that drove her team’s offense forward. If we’re being honest, and keeping to the theme of the metaphor, there were times when she looked like the entire engine.
The Euro invasion continues to upend USAU club ultimate with every passing year, and La Gala is by no means the first international player that has exceeded expectations. Still, if the other players in whose footsteps she follows are any indication, OPOTY runner-up is far too low a ceiling for her talent.
– Graham Gerhart
Second Runner-Up
Liv Player (Boston Brute Squad)
Player first stepped onto the national scene in college in 2016. Ten years later, Player is a two time Club Nationals winner and has made an OPOTYium. Well earned too, as fourteen assists led a very talented Brute Squad, with some of the division’s best throwers. After coming over last season from Sprocket and immediately winning two national championships, it’s hard to imagine Boston without the second-year Player wheeling and dealing.
There’s something comforting in watching Player pick up a disc, a certainty of what’s to come. Fourteen assists and four goals are nice stats, but they’re all the more impressive when balanced against only two turns. With picture-perfect around flicks capable of shattering any mark in the division, the ability to create space against the best defenders in the nation, and a devastating efficiency with the disc, it’s no wonder Liv Player is the offensive centerpiece for Brute Squad.
– Zack Davis
