On August 8, 2025, the Ultimate Hall of Fame (UHoF) announced the slate of candidates selected for consideration for the 2025 Hall of Fame class. In addition to the ten player-candidates elevated from the Women’s division, ten player-candidates elevated from the Open division, and the ten player-candidates elevated from the Mixed division, an additional eleven nominees have been elevated from the Contributor category honoring Coaches.
Congratulations to these UHoF finalists and all the nominees. This year’s player-candidates include those who competed at their best against the best in their primary division of play during the 2008 to 2016 peak playing years. In the Contributor category, nominees include those innovators who coached consistently and had significant impact prior to and including 2008 in the Youth, College, Club division(s), at WFDF and World Games, and/or with professional club teams.
Since 2009, the Hall has invited the ultimate community to provide their input on the slate of candidates via the Call to the Community. We request the community’s input through your rating of the player-candidates on each of the Seven Ultimate Hall of Fame Characteristics identified and defined for each player division. Additionally, input on contributor-coach candidates is sought on their consistent team success, innovative strategy, coaching influence, player development, and community reputation; each characteristic is defined on the Call to Community survey.
Please complete the Call to Community for the player division with which you are most familiar. Similarly, please review and provide input on the contributor-coach nominees with whom you are most familiar. Links to candidate-submitted player competitive histories are included above and in the separate Call to Community surveys for each of the 3 player divisions. The 11 contributor-coach candidate’s teams coached/best results and headshots are contained in the Contributor-Coach Call to Community survey.
WOMEN’S DIVISION Call to Community Survey
Allison Maddux / Alyssa Weatherford / Carolyn Finney / Cree Howard / Georgia Bosscher / Kaela Helton / Kath Ratcliff / Manisha Daryani / Sandy Jorgensen / Val Dion
OPEN DIVISION Call to Community Survey
Tim Gehret / Kurt Gibson / Jeff Graham / John Hassell / Jared Inselmann / Brett Matzuka / Mike Natenberg / Moses Rifkin / Mac Taylor / Ben Wiggins
MIXED DIVISION Call to Community Survey
Rosalyn “Rosie” Ano / Sarah Carnahan / Alicia Carr / Michael Faris / Josh Hemmesch / Greg Marliave / Sean Murray / Dan Patisteas / Evan Patisteas / An-Chi Tsou
CONTRIBUTORS-COACH Call to Community Survey
Alex Ghesquiere / Alex Korb / Charlie Bliss / Eileen Murray / Jim Pistrang / Kurt Dahlenburg / Matty Tsang / Nathan Wicks / Robin Davis / Shar Stuht / Ted Munter
The Call to Community Surveys are open until Sunday, October 12, 2025
Your feedback, both laudatory and critical, is an important part of the committee’s consideration. We encourage candid participation from all who have personal experience with the candidates. All feedback will be kept strictly confidential and will be available to eligible Hall voters as part of their deliberations. The ratings for the candidates will be shared with the community should we get sufficient response to these surveys.
From the final slate of 10 Open, 10 Women’s division, and 10 Mixed division player candidates, the eligible voting members of the Hall will cast their ballots for up to 5 Open, up to 5 Women’s division, and up to 4 Mixed division players in 2 rounds of voting to select those individuals to be inducted into the Ultimate Hall of Fame. The Contributor-Coach candidates will be voted upon by eligible Hall members from the player and contributor categories. All final ballot candidates must achieve at least a 2/3rds majority to be inducted into the Hall.
Thank you for your active participation at this stage of the 2025 Ultimate Hall of Fame Selection Process!
The Hall of Fame Vetting Committee