UC San Diego Swimming Schedule Set for 2026-27

LA JOLLA, Calif. – UC San Diego head swim coach Marko Djordjevic introduced the 2026-27 Triton schedule on Thursday afternoon. UC San Diego will compete towards a number of notable packages all through the course of the season, together with Cal, Hawai’i, Wisconsin, USC, and UCLA. The Tritons will host six meets at Canyonview Aquatic Center on the La Jolla campus.
 
“We’re excited to kick off the 2026–27 season with our Triton Invitational and Senior Meet! We’re thrilled to welcome Cal, Hawai’i, and Pomona-Pitzer to UC San Diego as we get the season underway,” states head coach Marko Djordjevic. “We’re especially excited about our midseason meet in Idaho, which will be an important opportunity for our team to prepare for the conference championships in St. George, Utah.”

Djordjevic continues, “as always, we will keep our eyes on the prize — qualifying for NCAA Championships and putting ourselves in the best position to perform at the highest level when we arrive at the University of Texas in March.”

UC San Diego is about to return to convention competitors within the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) for the primary season because the 2024 championships.

 

The Tritons will open their season internet hosting the annual Triton Invitational on Oct. 9-10 at Canyonview Aquatic Center. The stacked discipline contains the Cal, Hawai’i, and Pomona-Pitzer packages. The two day occasion might be highlighted by senior day on Saturday, the place UC San Diego will acknowledge and thank its 7 seniors on Oct. 10. For the following meet, the Tritons stay dwelling to host their annual meet with Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, on Oct. 23. They wrap the opening month on Oct. 31 at UC Davis (ladies).

  

The November slate opens with each the boys’s and girls’s sides set to move to Malibu to face Pepperdine and UC Santa Barbara on Nov. 13. The month concludes with a midseason invite, the place the Tritons’ will make their first look on the University of Idaho College Invite (Nov. 19-22).

 

To shut out 2026, the Tritons will face CSU Bakersfield and San Diego (ladies) at dwelling in Canyonview Aquatic Center on Dec. 19.

 

Returning within the new 12 months, UC San Diego will host Wisconsin on Jan. 2. Keeping the competitors powerful, the Tritons will welcome Cal Baptist (ladies), UCLA (ladies), and UC Santa Barbara (males) to La Jolla on Jan. 9. Both the Triton women and men will host Pomona-Pitzer the next week on Jan. 16 earlier than heading to Los Angeles, Calif. to face the Trojans at USC. UC San Diego will shut out the common season touring cross-town for a twin towards San Diego (ladies) on Feb. 6.

  

The Tritons will compete on the 2026 MPSF Championships from Feb. 17-20 (ladies) and Feb. 22-25 (males) in St. George, Utah on the Human Performance Center on the campus of Utah Tech. The final probability meet hosted by Georgia will happen Feb. 27-28 in Athens. NCAA Championships will happen March 17-20 (ladies) and March 24-27 (males) on the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center in Austin, Texas.

 

About UC San Diego Athletics

After twenty years as one of the 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 group 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 fee of 90 p.c, the very best fee amongst public establishments in NCAA Division I or II. For extra info on the Tritons, go to UCSDtritons.com or observe UC San Diego Athletics on social media @UCSDtritons.