Alex Nelson's U.S. Open grab tops SportsCenter's Top 10

Alex Nelson’s grab from San Francisco Revolver’s U.S. Open final victory finished No. 1 on SportsCenter’s Top 10, and the game produced two separate Top 10 plays. For a sport that usually lives on livestreams and sideline clips, that is the kind of clean, easy-to-read highlight that can travel well outside the ultimate audience.

Revolver, the San Francisco men’s club established in 2006, has long been one of the sport’s flagship programs, with championship appearances listed on its team page and a place on USA Ultimate’s team page. The club’s latest title run came in the 2026 U.S. Open, the first leg of the Triple Crown Tour, where Revolver, Hybrid and Scandal won their respective divisions. Nelson’s catch was not just a big moment inside that final. It was the play that escaped the usual niche ceiling and landed in ESPN’s nightly mainstream hierarchy.

That matters because the clip works on first viewing. A non-ultimate viewer does not need to understand a force, a poach or a stall count to recognize what happened when Nelson elevated and secured the disc in traffic. The sequence had the two ingredients that move on national TV: clear athletic difficulty and an obvious payoff. The disc stayed alive long enough to create suspense, then Nelson finished the play in a way that made the ranking feel immediate rather than explanatory. In a sport where many of the best possessions are built on systems and spacing, a single spectacular catch is often the one piece that can punch through to a broader audience.

Revolver’s own social posts amplified the moment, saying Nelson’s grab was the top play on SportsCenter’s Top 10 and noting that the final featured two Top 10-caliber plays. That kind of visibility gives club ultimate something it rarely gets from a big-stage sports franchise: a short, undeniable argument for why the sport can hold up in the same entertainment lane as better-known pro leagues.

The timing only sharpened the point. Revolver had already posted 2026 tryout information as the club looked ahead to the next season, and a No. 1 ESPN clip from a U.S. Open final gives that work a different kind of value. USA Ultimate, the sport’s national governing body and a member of the USOPC, has spent years building legitimacy for ultimate; a top-ranked national highlight from a San Francisco club team is the sort of moment that can help with recruits, audience growth and credibility all at once.