Tritons Journey As much as Face USC, UNLV

LA JOLLA, Calif. – Following UC San Diego’s final meet, the place the Tritons hosted powerful competitors of their first problem of 2026, the Tritons are set to journey north to face USC and UNLV in Los Angeles, Calif. in a tri-meet.
 
MEET INFO
USC | UNLV
Jan. 9
1 p.m. Friday
Los Angeles, Calif. | Uytengsu Aquatics Center
 
LAST TIME OUT
UC San Diego hosted Wisconsin, UCLA, and Tulane to a Saturday morning meet on Jan. third. The Tritons earned a complete of 86.5 factors on the boys’s aspect ending second to the Wisconsin Badgers who earned 175.5. On the ladies’s aspect, Wisconsin scored 172 to UC San Diego’s 90 factors. UCLA earned 176 factors to UC San Diego’s 85 factors. UC San Diego topped Tulane 218.5 to 43.5 factors.

On the ladies’s aspect, Chloe Braun claimed the 100 Breaststroke (1:00.63). Additional high three finishes embody the 400 Medley Relay (3:36.19). Eva Boehlke led off for the Tritons, with Chloe Braun, Madison O’Connell, then Asia Kozan following. Edana Huang claimed second within the 200 Butterfly (2:00.87), adopted intently by teammate Kelsey Leung in third (2:01.37). Most notable high three finishes from the boys embody, Zachary Tower putting third within the 1000 Freestyle (9:09.62). Luigi Franco clinched third within the 200 Freestyle with a time of 1:39.36. William Seymour earned the Tritons one other third-place end within the 100 Backstroke (48.70). Adrian Bellido earned second within the 100 Breaststroke (55.36). Logan Lakis tied for second within the 50 Freestyle (20.67). Cehelnik completed in second throughout the 100 Freestyle (43.94), trailing first by only one/one hundredth of a second. In the 200 Backstroke Franco claimed second (1:46.04). Cehelnik earned the Tritons their solely first-place end on the boys’s aspect, popping out on high within the 100 Butterfly (47.05). Shane Burns completed second within the 200 IM, incomes a time of 1:50.88. Finishing out the meet the 200 Freestyle Relay workforce, comprised of Cehelnik, Seymour, Zach Elian, and Aidan Rikic, earned second place (1:21.86).

 

THANK YOU, SENIORS

Prior to Saturday afternoon’s session on Oct. 11, 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 Aidan Rikic.

 

TEAM CAPTAINS

This 12 months’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 girls gained eight championship titles and made it to the rostrum 19 instances to take second place general. Finishing fourth general, the Triton males set new two program information and made it to the rostrum 4 instances 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 information in addition to 5 UC San Diego program information.

 

UP NEXT

UC San Diego males will host Stanford at Canyonview Aquatic Center of their last residence meet of the season on Friday, Jan. sixteenth.  

ATTENDING THE MEETS

Admission to UC San Diego residence 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 sport 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 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 girls gained the championships by 12.5 factors, taking residence 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 good telephone for the whole lot they should find out about every residence 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 hear 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 by way of X, Facebook, and Instagram.

FOR THE YOUNGER CROWD

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

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About UC San Diego Athletics

After twenty years as one of the 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 tutorial beliefs of one of many world’s preeminent establishments, graduating at a median price of 90 %, the 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.