UC San Diego Journey to the Big West Championships

LA JOLLA, Calif. – UC San Diego will journey to Houston, Texas to compete within the Big West Swimming & Diving Championships later this week. The Tritons could have 19 ladies competing and 22 males competing throughout the swimming occasions. The championships meet will span from Wed. Feb 11 to Sat. Feb. 14.
 
UC San Diego at present holds seven Big West Championship information; all set finally 12 months’s championship. Asia Kozan set the 100 Freestyle, 200 Freestyle, and 200 IM information (48.47, 1:45.32, 1:57.67 respectively). Chloe Braun holds the 100 Breaststroke (59.14). Eva Boehlke set a report within the 200 Backstroke (1:56.94). Two relay groups set information final 12 months. In the 800 Freestyle Relay, Kozan, Sophia Bell, Boehlke, and Audrey Moore swam a 7:11.65 to set the Big West Championship report. Madison O’Connell, Braun, Boehlke, and Lee set the report within the 200 Medley Relay with a 1:37.71.
 
MEET INFO
BIG WEST CHAMPIONSHIPS
Wed. Feb. 11- Sat. Feb. 14
Houston, Texas | CRWC Natatorium
 
LAST TIME OUT
UC San Diego wrapped its common season dealing with University of San Diego in a ladies’s solely meet on Jan. 31. The Tritons topped the Toreros 154 to 123 on the street. Out of 15 occasions the Tritons took 9.  
 
Boehlke received the 100 IM, setting a program report within the occasion (55.65), together with first-place finishes within the 50 Butterfly (25.03) and 150 Butterfly (1:26.80). Addison Everage had two wins on the meet, capturing the 50 Backstroke (25.89) and 150 Backstroke (1:26.96). The Tritons swept this occasion with Sydney Niles (1:29.18) and Danielle Greenwood (1:30.02) inserting second and third. Braun then captured the 50 Breaststroke (28.86). Sydney Borick took the 100 Freestyle (51.84). In the 300 Freestyle Moore claimed first (2:55.76). Wrapping up the meet, Hayley Gregory topped the 150 Breaststroke. Sabrina Bennani positioned second (1:42.43) and Niles (1:42.79) adopted her for a second Triton sweep.
 
UP NEXT
UC San Diego will journey to Athens, Ga. to compete within the Bulldog Invitational – Last Chance meet forward of NCAA Championships. The meet will likely be held on Feb. 28 and March 1.
 
THANK YOU, SENIORS
Prior to Saturday afternoon’s session on Oct. 11, on the Triton Invite, UC San Diego thanked and acknowledged its 11 seniors: Sophia Bell, Sabrina Bennani, Chloe Braun, Shane Burns, Luigi Franco, Robby Griswold, Skyler Kao, Minh-Nha Kawamura, Colton Milne, Audrey Moore, and Aidian Rikic.
 
TEAM CAPTAINS
This 12 months’s staff 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 received 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 information 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 information in addition to 5 UC San Diego program information.

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 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 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 top coach of UC San Diego males’s and girls’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 report and Big West meet report 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 staff received 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 received the championships by 12.5 factors, taking residence 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 cellphone for all the pieces they should learn about every residence meet, together with up to date rosters, schedules, and stats for every staff.

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 named 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 preferred podcasting apps and on UCSDTritons.com. For particular person present data and hear hyperlinks, comply with Tritoncast on X @Tritoncast.

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FOR THE YOUNGER CROWD

Got some younger Triton followers in your loved ones? If they’re eighth grade or below, 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 way more!

GEAR

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About UC San Diego Athletics

After twenty years as one of the crucial 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 staff 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 educational beliefs of one of many world’s preeminent establishments, graduating at a mean price of 90 %, 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.