Big West regular-season champion Utah Valley earned two of the six major awards. Wolverine midfielder Oliver Watts earned Rookie of the Year honor, and the top coaching honor went to Michael Chesler. Regular-season runner-up  UC Irvine took home two awards as senior Brady Treinen was voted as the Defensive Player of the Year and graduate student-athlete Scott Williams claimed the Goalkeeper of the Year award. Cal State Fullerton junior Jose de la Torre took home Midfielder of the Year accolade for the second straight season and Offensive Player of the Year award went to Sacramento State senior Zac Giles. 
 
Chesler helmed the Wolverines to a regular-season crown with a 5-1 league record, 10-2-3 overall, as a first-year head coach. Utah Valley led Big West play with 13 goals and had the second-best goals-against average in the conference at 1.000.
 
Giles led the league in shots (72), shots on goal (39), goals (11) and points (27). The Lincoln, Calif. native also added five assists.
 
de la Torre earned a second consecutive Midfielder of the Year recognition after amassing seven goals and five assists in 17 games, including a hat trick in the season finale at Sacramento State.
 
Treinen was the defensive catalyst for the UC Irvine defense that sported a goals-against average of 0.89 in overall games, 0.67 in conference play. The Anteater senior compiled one goal and six assists, and played a full 90 minute shift in 14 of 18 games.
 
Williams played in 12 of UC Irvine’s 18 games and led the league in goals-against average at 0.53, save percentage at 0.824 and shutouts with seven.
 
Watts provided three goals and two assists in 14 games for the conference regular-season champion Wolverines.
 
Utah Valley had two selections on the First Team in senior defender Toke Amtrup (13 full shifts) and senior forward Jose Luis Martin Montealegre (8G, 4A). Five Wolverines earned Second-Team honors in senior forward Nil Grau (3G, 6A), fifth-year midfielder Dan McKay (1A, 2 full shifts), junior goalkeeper Jackson Medina (0.67 GAA), junior defender Brayden Tester (2G, 6 full shifts) and senior defender Trevor Walk (1G). 
 
Converging with Treinen and Williams on the First Team are UC Irvine sophomore defender Gustavo Gonzalez (2A, 13 full shifts), senior midfielder Gage Lyons (7G, 5A) and senior midfielder Isaac Powell (1G, 1A).
 
UC Santa Barbara earned three First-Team selections in sophomore forward Steinar Bjornsson (10G, 3A), junior defender Peleg Brown (2G, 4A) and senior midfielder Kaden Standish(6G, 4A), and two on the Second Team in senior defender Drew Kamienski (14 full shifts) and senior forward Donovan Sessoms (4G, 5A).
 
Cal State Bakersfield senior defender Filip Arras (5G, 2A), senior forward Oshea Foster (5G, 1A) and senior midfielder Jesse Wangusi (2G, 2A) were picked as members of the Second Team.
 
CSUN placed two players on the All-Big West teams with senior midfielder Jorge Solorzano (4G, 6A) on the First Team and senior midfielder Kayvon Monfared (9G, 2A) on the Second Team. 
 
With four goals and four assists on the season Sacramento State junior midfielder Hiroshi Yang earned Second-Team distinction.
 
The All-Big West Honorable Mention consists of Sean Battistessa (Sacramento State), Owen Beninga (UC Santa Barbara), Ty Branigan (UC Santa Barbara), Daniel Garcia (CSUN), Viggo Gustavsson (UC Santa Barbara), Justin Knighton (Cal State Bakersfield), Marcus Lee (UC Irvine), Nick Strangio (Sr., Sacramento State), Joey Velasquez (Cal State Bakersfield), Luca Wingaa Laursen (Utah Valley),
 
The All-Rookie Team features Watts, Adrian Alvarenga (Sacramento State), Messiah Antwi (CSUN), James Arteaga (UC Irvine), Lorimer Bouman (Cal State Bakersfield), Ty Branigan (UC Santa Barbara), Jackson Chambers (Cal State Bakersfield), Pierce Rizzo (UC Irvine), Josh Robinson (Cal State Bakersfield), Dave-Ryan Tankou (CSUN), Luca Wingaa Laursen (Utah Valley).
 
 
The 2026 Big West Men’s Soccer Championship begins Saturday, Nov. 7, with a pair of semifinal tilts at higher-seeded camps sites. Fourth-seeded Cal State Bakersfield plays at No. 1 seed Utah Valley at 1 p.m. PT/2 p.m. MT and third-seeded UC Santa Barbara at No. 2 seed UC Irvine at 6 p.m. The championship match will be held at the remaining highest seed on Friday, Nov. 13.