Swim Set to Host Triton Invite

LA JOLLA, Calif. – UC San Diego opens its 2025-26 swim season with a bang when the Tritons host the two-day Triton Invite on Friday and Saturday (Oct. 10-11) at Canyonview Aquatic Center. The two-day occasion options 9 swim applications and can be break up into three classes.
 
Fans unable to attend can observe the motion with real-time outcomes on the Meet Mobile app.
 
MEET INFO
TRITON INVITE
Oct. 10-11
2 p.m. Friday | 10 a.m. Saturday
La Jolla, Calif. | Canyonview Aquatic Center
 
Session 1 Schedule (Friday, 2 p.m.)
200 Medley Relay
500 Free
100 Back
200 IM
50 Free
200 Fly
 
Session 2 Schedule (Saturday, 10 a.m.)
400 IM
100 Fly
200 Free
100 Breast
200 Back
 
Session 3 Schedule (Saturday, 1 p.m.)
1650 Free
100 Free
200 Breast
200 Free Relay

STIFF COMPETITION

The 2025 Triton Invite will characteristic some prime competitors proper out of the gate. This 12 months’s subject will characteristic greater than 20 Olympic medalists in La Jolla. Competing groups embody:

Cal, Hawai’i, Stanford (ladies), UC San Diego, and UC Santa Barbara.

 

THANK YOU, SENIORS

Prior to Saturday afternoon’s session, UC San Diego will thank and acknowledge 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 ladies gained eight championship titles and made it to the rostrum 19 instances to take second place total. Finishing fourth total, the Triton males set new two program data and made it to the rostrum 4 instances 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

The Tritons will stay at residence to host Clairemont-Mudd-Scripps and Simon Fraser subsequent weekend. Competition is slated to start at Noon on Oct. 18 at Canyonview Aquatic Center on the La Jolla campus.

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.

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 employees 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 file and Big West meet file 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 ladies gained 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 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 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 pay attention hyperlinks, observe 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 beneath, try the Junior Triton Club. Membership features a free t-shirt, admission to over 100 UC San Diego residence athletic occasions, and rather 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 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 very best price amongst public establishments in NCAA Division I or II. For extra data on the Tritons, go to UCSDtritons.com or observe UC San Diego Athletics on social media @UCSDtritons.