Three Tritons Set for NCAA Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships

LA JOLLA, Calif. – UC San Diego’s Asia Kozan, Chloe Braun, and Eva Boehlke will compete within the NCAA DI Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships Thursday and Saturday. All three competing athletes auto certified finally month’s Big West convention championships. Kozan will probably be swimming on Thursday, March 19 within the 200 Freestyle, adopted by Braun within the 100 Breaststroke. On Saturday, March 21 Boehlke will swim within the 200 IM.
 
Live outcomes for the meet can be found here for Thursday’s competitors and here for Saturday’s. The meet can be accessible to look at on ESPN+.
 
MEET INFO
NCAA WOMEN’S CHAMPIONSHIPS
Thurs. March 19, Sat. March 21
Atlanta, Ga. | McAuley Aquatic Center
 
LAST TIME OUT
On Feb. 12 Boehlke was the primary swimmer within the nation to punch her ticket for the NCAA Championships, concurrently selecting up her first of 4 occasion wins. She did so by a dominant efficiency within the 200 IM, (1:57.43). On Feb. 13, Kozan earned her spot within the NCAAs with a 1:45.52 within the 200 Freestyle. Also on Feb. 13, Braun outpaced her opponents within the 100 breaststroke (58.95) to safe back-to-back NCAA Championship appearances.
 
Overall, the UC San Diego males claimed third place on the Big West championships with 571 factors. The UC San Diego ladies completed fourth with 644 factors.
 
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 Aidan Rikic.
 
TEAM CAPTAINS
This yr’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 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.

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 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 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 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 house 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 house 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 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 X, Facebook, and Instagram.

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 house athletic occasions, and far more!

GEAR

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

 

About UC San Diego Athletics

After 20 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 staff 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 mean price of 90 p.c, 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.