Tritons Head to the Trailblazer Invite

LA JOLLA, Calif. – This week UC San Diego will journey to St. George, Utah for the Trailblazer Invite, hosted by Utah Tech. Competition begins on Wednesday, November nineteenth and wraps on Saturday, November twenty second.
 
MEET INFO
TRAILBLAZER INVITE
Nov. 19-22
St. George, Utah | UT HPC Pool
 
LAST TIME OUT
UC San Diego ladies commanded the competitors in a tri meet towards Pepperdine and UC Santa Barbara in Malibu, Calif. Saturday, November fifteenth. The ladies earned 201 factors to Pepperdine’s 93, and 156 to UC Santa Barbara’s 106. The Triton ladies swept the 100 Backstroke with Addison Everage (1:58.69), Eva Boehlke (1:59.48), and Sydney Niles (1:59.62). Junior Asia Kozan broke a college document along with her time within the 200 Butterfly (1:57.10) and claimed a first-place end within the 400 IM (4:14.58) and the 400 Medley Relay with Boehlke, Chloe Braun, and Madison O’Connell.
 
On the boys’s facet, UC San Diego topped UC Santa Barbara 145-117. Hunter Cehelnik led the cost with three first place finishes and one second place end. Cehelnik claimed the 200 Freestyle (1:37.79), 100 Freestyle (43.90), and 200 Freestyle Relay with UCSD A (20.02 break up). Multiple Tritons had a number of prime three finishes together with Zachary Tower, Zach Elian, Luigi Franco, Jack O’Shaughnessy, Charlie Franz, and Bekzhan Yessengeldy.
 
THANK YOU, SENIORS
Prior to Saturday afternoon’s session on October eleventh 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 12 months’s crew 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 general. Finishing fourth general, the Triton males set new two program data and made it to the rostrum 4 occasions on the ultimate night time of competitors. Asia Kozan continued to dominate in her sophomore season incomes a championship title every night time 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 take a brief break from competitors earlier than returning to the pool on Saturday, January third at house. The ladies will likely be competing towards UCLA and Wisconsin, the boys will likely be dealing with Wisconsin. Tritons will host the meet at Canyonview Aquatic Center and it’s set to start at 11 a.m.

ATTENDING THE MEETS

Admission to UC San Diego house 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 security 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 workers 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 girls’s swimming packages 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 crew 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 house gold in seven occasions. After an impressive 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 sensible telephone for the whole lot they should find out about every house meet, together with up to date rosters, schedules, and stats for every crew.

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 grew to become 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 hear hyperlinks, comply with Tritoncast on X @Tritoncast.

GET SOCIAL WITH UC SAN DIEGO SWIM

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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 house athletic occasions, and far more!

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About UC San Diego Athletics

After twenty years as probably the most profitable packages 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 crew and practically 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 tutorial beliefs of one of many world’s preeminent establishments, graduating at a mean fee of 90 %, the very best fee 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.