Tritons Swimming Set to Journey for Tri-Meet

LA JOLLA, Calif. – UC San Diego Tritons journey up the coast to face Pepperdine and UC Santa Barbara Saturday, Nov. fifteenth in Malibu, Calif. This is the Tritons first highway journey of the season. The meet is about to start at 12 p.m.
 
Fans unable to attend can comply with the motion with real-time outcomes on the Meet Mobile app. Pepperdine Swimming can even offer a solution to watch, discovered on their website.
 
MEET INFO
PEPPERDINE | UC SANTA BARBARA
Nov. 15
12 p.m. Saturday
Malibu, Calif. | Raleigh Runnels Memorial Pool
 
LAST TIME OUT
UC San Diego ladies hosted UC Davis in a convention meet leading to a victory. Chloe Braun led the cost by clinching three first-place finishes and incomes herself the Big West Swimmer of the Week honor. Other most notable performers embody Eva Boehlke with 4 prime three placements and Addison Everage with three.
 
Overall, the Triton ladies dominated over the Aggies in a remaining rating of 154 to 132. Over 14 occasions UC San Diego swept three and had 10 complete first-place finishes.
 
THANK YOU, SENIORS
Prior to Saturday afternoon’s session on the Triton Invite, UC San Diego thanked and acknowledged its 12 seniors: Sophia Bell, Sabrina Bennani, Chloe Braun, Shane Burns, Luigi Franco, Robby Griswold, Skyler Kao, Minh-Nha Kawamura, Colton Milne, Audrey Moore, Mia Park, and Aidian Rikic.
 
TEAM CAPTAINS
This yr’s workforce captains are seniors Shane Burns and Audrey Moore.
  
PLENTY OF NEW FACES
UC San Diego swim added ten newcomers to the Tritons’ roster for the 2025-26 season: Dani Carter, Clemence Choy, Landon Egeland, Addison Everage, Trent Hollandsworth, Kyle Kengla, William Miller, Belle Puckett, William Seymour, and Zachary Tower.
 
NOTABLE
Joining the Big West in 2024-25, the Triton ladies gained eight championship titles and made it to the rostrum 19 occasions to take second place total. Finishing fourth total, the Triton males set new two program data and made it to the rostrum 4 occasions on the ultimate evening of competitors. Asia Kozan continued to dominate in her sophomore season incomes a championship title every evening of the four-day meet and returned to La Jolla with 4 first place medals and one third place medal. Kozan set 4 Big West meet data in addition to 5 UC San Diego program data.
 
UP NEXT
UC San Diego will journey to St. George, Utah for the Trailblazer Invite. The four-day invitational spans from Wednesday, Nov. nineteenth to Saturday, Nov. twenty second.

ATTENDING THE MEETS

Admission to UC San Diego dwelling swim meets is free, however parking permits are required seven days per week on campus. For UC San Diego Parking data, click here. For the protection of scholar-athletes, coaches, and spectators, pets and glass bottles are prohibited from Canyonview Aquatic Center.

COVERING THE TRITONS

Media members wishing to cowl a UC San Diego recreation in-person at Canyonview Aquatic Center this season should notify a member of the Athletics Communication employees no later than Noon the day earlier than the meet.

 

HEAD COACH MARKO DJORDJEVIC

Marko Djordjevic was named the pinnacle coach of UC San Diego males’s and ladies’s swimming applications on July 10, 2019. The 2025-26 season is his seventh season as head coach.

After present process the transition from NCAA Division II to Division I, Djordjevic made historical past as he was the primary coach to ship a scholar-athlete to an NCAA DI Championship in a non-open division sport. At the Big West Swim and Dive Championships, Chloe Braun set the UC San Diego program document and Big West meet document within the 100 breaststroke with a time of 59.14 which earned her a spot on the NCAA Championships. The junior went on to complete twentieth within the nation.

 

During the four-year transition interval, Djordjevic made historical past when the ladies’s workforce gained the college’s first DI convention championship in 2022 on the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation swimming and diving championships. Disrupting the Hawaii dynasty, the Triton ladies gained the championships by 12.5 factors, taking dwelling gold in seven occasions. After an excellent season and championship win, Djordjevic was named MPSF Swim Coach of the Year.

 

MEET DAY GOES WITH YOU

Triton followers can entry meet day data by visiting the UC San Diego Swim Meet Day web page from their good telephone for every thing they should find out about every dwelling meet, together with up to date rosters, schedules, and stats for every workforce.

WHY THE TRITONS?

The Triton is described because the offspring of Poseidon and Amphitrite, a demigod of the ocean with a decrease a part of the physique like that of a fish. It is called a mighty and fierce sea warrior. Given UC San Diego’s shut proximity to the Pacific Ocean and its connections with the world-famous Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the Triton turned our mascot in 1964.

 

TRITON SWIM TALK

As a part of UC San Diego’s transition to Division I, the Athletics Department launched a weekly podcast, Tritoncast. New episodes of Tritoncast can be found on the most well-liked podcasting apps and on UCSDTritons.com. For particular person present data and pay attention hyperlinks, comply with Tritoncast on X @Tritoncast.

GET SOCIAL WITH UC SAN DIEGO SWIM

Keep up with the Tritons all season lengthy on social media via X, Facebook, and Instagram.

FOR THE YOUNGER CROWD

Got some younger Triton followers in your loved ones? If they’re eighth grade or below, try the Junior Triton Club. Membership features a free t-shirt, admission to over 100 UC San Diego dwelling athletic occasions, and far more!

GEAR

For the newest Triton attire and equipment, click on right here.

 

About UC San Diego Athletics

After twenty years as probably the most profitable applications in NCAA Division II, the UC San Diego intercollegiate athletics program has begun a brand new period as a member of The Big West in NCAA Division I. The 24-sport Tritons earned 30 workforce and almost 150 particular person nationwide championships throughout its time in Divisions II and III and helped information 1,400 scholar-athletes to All-America honors. A complete of 84 Tritons have earned Academic All-America honors, whereas 39 have garnered prestigious NCAA Post Graduate Scholarships. UC San Diego scholar-athletes exemplify the educational beliefs of one of many world’s preeminent establishments, graduating at a mean price of 90 p.c, the very best price amongst public establishments in NCAA Division I or II. For extra data on the Tritons, go to UCSDtritons.com or comply with UC San Diego Athletics on social media @UCSDtritons.