2026 Roster
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#00 Genny De Jesus (she/her)
Genny De Jesus is back for year 8! During her early ages, Genny spent years as a failed child tennis star and track athlete. She has spent most of her club career in the mixed division with NJ Jughandle and NY XIST, but has been playing with NY BENT for the past few years. In her spare time, she enjoys slip-and-slide meetups at Central Park, hanging with her cat Clementine, and doing PT for her bag of poop knee. Genny is eternally thankful to coaches like Isaiah Bryant and Judy Jarvis for keeping her in the sport, as well as helping mold her as a player on and off the field.
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#1 Zella Sahar (she/her) Practice Player
Zella started playing ultimate in high school, where she captained the MN girls YCC team. She was a former track and cross country kid turned ultimate frisbee player. She went on to play D1 college ultimate at the University of Minnesota, where she also captained and learned how to play in questionable weather. Since then, she’s bounced around the ultimate ecosystem, playing both women’s and mixed club at the regional, national, and international level with BENT, Grand Army, Catchup Graz, Pop, and Party Wave. She’s excited for her second year playing with New York Gridlock!
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#2 Edi Lam (they/them)
Edi Lam started their frisbee career in 2021 at Tufts University and has played club for Boston Brute Squad since 2023. In their spare time, they coach Tufts EWO, work at a bagel store, and play 1v1 basketball in the driveway.
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#3 Grace Conerly (she/her)
In 2025, Grace competed with Boston Brute Squad and NY Gridlock, and she is excited for another year with the program. Off the field, Grace enjoys taking long naps, reading books, and finding the best bubble tea in New York.
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#4 Marié Weverka (she/her)
Marié started playing ultimate at Chico State and played with a mixed team called Platypi before moving to the east coast. She’s been playing with NY Bent ever since. Her current craft hyperfixations are embroidering and making ugly vegetable candles.
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#5 Sydney Stelzer (she/her)
Sydney started playing ultimate at Northwestern University in 2016. She has played across both the women's and mixed divisions in Chicago and New York.
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#6 Audrey Parrott (she/her)
Audrey started playing ultimate in 2022 with Carleton Syzygy in the D-1 college division and hasn't looked back since. She has also played club with Minneapolis Drag'n Thrust and New York City XIST. Audrey is looking forward to playing with Gridlock in her first PUL season!
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#7 Abby Hecko (she/her)
Abby started playing ultimate in elementary school at UCDS in Seattle. She has now played in college, the mixed division, the womens division, the western ultimate league, and on worlds teams. She is excited for her second year in the PUL with Gridlock!
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#8 Sophia Wang (she/her) Practice Player
Sophia started playing frisbee at NYU and then graduated in 2022 and has been on BENT ever since. She is excited to return for her second year with Gridlock!
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#9 Cassie Brown (she/her)
Cassie Brown is returning for her 3rd year with NY Gridlock! She began playing in college at the University of Chicago and spent many years competing in the Midwest before making the big move to the East Coast, where she currently plays for NY BENT. Cassie is best known for her gorgeous hucks, field flipping around backhands, and the occasional massive sky over a pack. She loves collaborating with teammates to succeed, despite the ongoing “Sassy Cassie” allegations. She is a Sagittarius, a horse muffin muffin, her primary driving emotion is anxiety, and, unsurprisingly, she’s an ENTJ. Cassie is excited to represent NYGL for another season!
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#10 Elise Freedman (she/her)
Elise Freedman started playing ultimate competitively in high school. She attended Northeastern University, where she played for and captained the Northeastern Valkyries. Elise competed on the U20 Women’s National Team, winning gold at the 2022 World Junior Ultimate Championships in Wrocław, Poland. She also competed on the U24 Mixed National Team, earning gold at the 2025 World Championships in Logroño, Spain. At the club level, she has played with Boston Brute Squad since 2023, winning national championships in 2023 and 2025.
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#11 Sadie Jezierski (she/her)
Sadie began playing ultimate frisbee in sixth grade and has been involved in the sport continuously ever since. As a youth player, she competed with Westfield High School, Columbia High School, and DeVYL, including participation at the YCC level. She went on to play five years at Ohio State University with Fever, where she continued to develop as a high-level competitor.
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#12 Casey Banta-Ryan (she/her)
Casey returns for her third year with NY Gridlock! Casey started playing in high school after her mother encouraged her to give it a try. After a hiatus during college, she joined the mixed club team Grand Army and has played for them the past three years. She enjoys cheering on her mother at great grandmasters tournaments or trying to guard her sister at leagues.
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#13 Maggie Fan (she/her) Practice Player
Maggie first started playing in college when her friend dragged her to an ultimate frisbee practice. Since then, she’s been playing non stop.
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#15 Meta Learey (she/her) Practice Player
Meta has been playing ultimate for 11 years now and it has evolved with her over the years. The sport has grown in popularity and Meta has grown as a player. She’s very excited to be joining NY Gridlock for the second year, to grow even more. When not playing with gridlock you can find Meta up in the Hudson valley playing with Funk; a mixed club team she’s played for since they’ve founded in 2018.
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#18 Ashley Wright (she/her) Practice Player
Ashley started playing ultimate frisbee in 2023. Prior to that she focused on soccer playing four years of division 1 soccer at CCSU. After her soccer career, her friends convinced her to tryout frisbee so while attending grad school at SCSU she joined the men’s team there, since there was no women’s team. She quickly developed an interest in the sport and then joined Deadweight that summer for her first year of club ultimate. Most recently, she played for The Young and Restless. Ashley is looking forward to joining Gridlock this season!
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#19 Rani Shah (she/her)
Welcome Rani Shah for her rookie year with Gridlock! Originally from the West Coast, Rani grew up in San Diego before making her way to NYC. She started playing ultimate in college with UC Davis Rogue and, since 2023, has been competing with her (first-ever) club team, BENT. Off the field, Rani works as a Trauma PA.
But you may recognize her on the field for her shutdown defense and intimidating mark — or maybe you’ve even been mixing her up with Genny. Rani is excited to play with NYGL this season!
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#20 Yina Cartagena (she/her)
20 años jugando al mejor ultimate alrededor del mundo, especialmente en Medellín, Colombia (REVOLUTION) y New York.
Deportistas profesional y licenciada en educación física, enfocada en promover y hacer crecer la comunidad del deporte en la categoría juvenil y universitaria.
Revolution ha sido la plataforma que me ha formado y me impulsa a crecer cada día más dándome conexiones y herramientas para jugar en Gridlock a nivel profesional.
20 years playing elite ultimate around the world, especially in Medellín, Colombia (Revolution), and New York.
Professional athlete and physical education graduate, focused on promoting and growing the sport within youth and university communities.
Revolution has been the platform that shaped me and continues to push me to grow every day, providing the connections and tools that allow me to compete professionally with Gridlock.
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#21 Montana Roberts (she/her)
Montana Roberts returns for her third year with NY Gridlock! She has been playing ultimate for a decade ever since her college roommate convinced her to give it a try. She’s been on several club teams across both coasts but most recently has been playing with Sprocket in Boston.
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#23 Jane Frankel (she/her) Practice Player
Jane first started playing ultimate in college at the University of Virginia with Hydra (Go Hoos!!). She has since played for NY BENT, Richmond Revival, and Brooklyn Heatwave, and also had a brief stint coaching for Hydra. As a native New Yorker, she’s stoked to be repping the city she loves with NYGL!
But you may recognize her on the field for her shutdown defense and intimidating mark — or maybe you’ve even been mixing her up with Genny. Rani is excited to play with NYGL this season!
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#23 Jolie Krebs (she/her)
2025 MVP Jolie Krebs is back for year three with NY Gridlock! She was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY and has played for Binghamton University’s Big Bear, New York XIST, and Team USA. She has won the Callahan award, DI Offensive Player of the Year, Mixed All-Club First Team and Mixed Club OPOTY. Jolie is known for either screaming or mumbling, there’s really no in between.
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#26 Mari Malin (she/her)
Mari started playing ultimate during high school, and instantly fell in love with it. She has since played on club teams in Wisconsin (NOISE & Heist) and Colorado (Flight Club), before settling down in New York and playing for NY XIST this past season.
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#31 Eli Presberg (they/them)
Eli’s back for their third year on NY Gridlock! They’ve been playing ultimate for a decade, and their first love will always be the Oberlin Flying Horsecows. Eli was third on the team in turnovers last year, but they’re looking to lead by example in this key statistical category in the 2026 season.
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#40 Dorothy DiMascio-Donohue (she/her)
Dorothy started playing ultimate in college at Tufts University in 2019. She played in the women’s club division with Boston Siege in 2021 and 2022, in the college division with Tufts Ewo in 2022 and 2023, and in the women’s club division with Boston Brute Squad in 2024 and 2025. Notably, she won a national championship with Brute Squad in 2025! She has coached high school girls ultimate and loves playing Goaltimate.
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#53 Emma Piorier (she/her)
Emma started playing frisbee in high school and hasn't stopped since. She competed with the University of Puget Sound in college and has played with club programs like Minnesota Pop and Minneapolis Drag'n Thrust since 2018. In 2023 she was named Ultiworld Breakout Player of the Year. She played three seasons for the Strike in the PUL and was a PUL all-star in 2025. In addition to playing, she coached at the University of Minnesota in 2023 and for the 2024 Minnesota high school state champions, Minneapolis Squall.
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#40 Bianca Champenois (she/her) Practice Player
Bianca started playing frisbee as a sophomore in college with the UC Berkeley @pie.queens . Over the summers during college, she had the opportunity to play with the Monterrey @cabritossalvajes in Mexico and the Hamburg @seagullshh in Germany. While in Mexico, she also picked up with the Mexican national team at U20 worlds! She then moved to Boston and played with MIT @ultismite . After taking a few years off due to a shoulder injury, she returned to competitive frisbee last year with @bostonsiege . She now lives in Princeton, where she does research on ocean and climate modeling. She enjoys playing 7s, but her true passions are goalty, 3v3 mini, and boot!
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#66 Janine Hlavaty (she/her)
Janine Hlavaty returns for her 7th season with NY Gridlock! Janine started playing in 2014 with Rutgers Nightshade after being “influenced” by her brother and sister, and currently plays club with NY XIST. She loves her dogs, the sims, and New Jersey diners.
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#74 Sam Harris (they/them)
SamHarrisis back for their third season with NY Gridlock! They started playing in high school due to friend group peer pressure and have since been peer pressured into captaining in college, coming to Gridlock tryouts, playing club with XIST, and coaching youth club teams. They’re super excited for another season full of feeding chaos energy from the sidelines, getting blocks on the field, and being confused numerous times for Eli.
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#87 Emma Chin (she/they)
Emma started playing in 2013 for the first New York YCC Girls' team. Since then, she's played for Stuyvesant High School, Carleton College Syzygy, and various club teams in New York City, most recently with Grand Army. Emma is also involved with the New York City coaching scene, returning to coach the girls' team at Stuyvesant High School as well as coaching the Columbia University men's ultimate team.
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#88 Nikki Hair (she/her)
Nikki returns for her 8th season with NY Gridlock! Nikki’s childhood was spent living on a school bus with her parents, eleven siblings and 4 various pets, which is probably the main reason she keeps returning to the circus that is our Gridlock D-line. She’s excited for another year of sneaking off towards the endzone whenever her teammates have the disc and yelling “weight room” at the worst time.
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#93 Chris “Spoon” Nelson (she/her)
Chris Nelson started playing Ultimate in 2005 at Horace Mann High School. She continued to play at New York University before graduating and then playing on various club teams in NYC, most recently playing for Bent in 2025 and 2026 (finished 5th place at Nationals).
Ultimate is her primary passion to both play and coach. She has coached various sports (soccer, basketball, skiing, baseball, and of course, Ultimate) at a variety of levels including middle school, high school, and college. She earned a Master's of Coaching Education from Ohio University in 2021. She currently coaches the Columbia Men's Ultimate frisbee team - Uptown Local.