The Ultimate Hall of Fame Board of Directors is pleased to announce the kick-off of the 2025 HoF Selection Process. Updated documents and details have been posted on the Selection Process section of the Hall of Fame website.
The 2025 Vetting Committee includes Women’s division Peer Pool (PP) co-leaders Gwen Ambler (HoF’21), Katharine Forth (HoF ’21), Miranda Roth Knowles (HoF’22), and Alicia White (HoF’22). Coordinating the Open PP is Bart Watson (HoF’22), Josh Ziperstein (HoF‘24), Josh Markette (HoF’23) and Jim Parinella (HoF’14). Leading the Contributors is Henry Thorne (HoF’24), Jennifer “JD” Donnelly (HoF’21), and David Barkan (HoF’10), in collaboration with an Advisory Committee. Kendra Frederick (HoF’23) co-leads the Mixed division with Emily Smith-Wilson (HoF’22), and Scott Conway (HoF’22). The Vetting Committee is joined by HoF board president, Dave Blau (HoF ’17), and HoF Administrator and committee chair, Suzanne Fields (HoF‘04).
The Peer Pool leaders are currently working to update the respective peer pools for the 2025 campaign and are focused on those who competed at the highest levels of the sport from 2008 to 2016. The updated lists will be posted when available later in July. Another key update to the selection process is that the eligibility age for Hall candidates was lowered to 39 for Open and male-matching Mixed competitors (1986 or earlier birth year) and remains at 38 for Women’s division and female-matching Mixed competitors (1987 or earlier birth year).
An additional key update for 2025 includes a specific focus in the Contributor category on Coaches; individuals who are/were innovators who brought unique and new approaches to their teams and achieved significant overall team success in the 2008-2016 time period in the Youth, College, Club division, WFDF, World Games, and with professional club teams.
Check out the Selection Process page on the Ultimate Hall of Fame website for the 2025 Hall of Fame process timeline, due dates, and links to player candidate Nomination/Reference forms and the Contributor Nominee Information form.
The 2024 UHoF Peer Pool Process and the Hall of Fame Selection Process + Timeline documents provide key information and time-sensitive details and will be updated in May 2025, along with other candidate-related forms.
Nominations are due June 15, 2025 for players. The contributor candidate nominations due date is TBD to allow the Contributor Advisory group to do additional information gathering; a definitive contributor nomination deadline will be published in the coming weeks.
We encourage you to read all the posted documents as we’ve made several important updates!
Please feel free to reach out to Suzanne Fields, the Peer Pool coordinators, Contributor coordinators, or email ultimatehalloffame@gmail.com with any questions.