Tritons Finish 42-Day Competitors Break Internet hosting Washington, UCLA

LA JOLLA, Calif. – UC San Diego will host Wisconsin and UCLA in a tri-meet at Canyonview Aquatic Center on Saturday, January third of their first competitors since November twentieth. The girls will compete towards each groups, whereas the lads will solely face Wisconsin.
 
Fans unable to attend can observe the motion with real-time outcomes on the Meet Mobile app. 
 
MEET INFO
WISCONSIN | UCLA
Jan. 3
11 a.m. Saturday
La Jolla, Calif. | Canyonview Aquatic Center
 
LAST TIME OUT
Throughout the four-day Trailblazer Invite UC San Diego positioned first on the lads’s aspect out of three groups, scoring 1223 factors. UC San Diego males outscored their closest opponent by a 288-point margin. On the ladies’s aspect out of eight groups, Tritons positioned second, incomes 761.5 factors. Five program data had been damaged by the Triton males, with three relay groups setting new occasions within the 200 Medley Relay (1:26.28), 400 Freestyle Relay (2:45.27), and 400 Medley Relay (3:11.10).
 
Hunter Cehelnik commanded the pool with three wins within the 100 Butterfly (46.40), 50 Freestyle (19.84), and 100 Freestyle (43.39). Cehelnik additionally participated in all three relay occasions that earned record-breaking finishes. William Seymour broke two particular person data with dominating performances within the 50 Backstroke (21.74) and 100 Backstroke (47.41). Asia Kozan displayed one of many strongest performances on the ladies’s aspect, incomes 4 occasion victories. Kozan swept her particular person races successful the five hundred Freestyle (4:46.97), 400 IM (4:16.11), and 200 Butterfly (1:57.60). UC San Diego had a first-place end within the girls’s 200 Medley Relay (1:37.82), led off by Madison O’Connell, adopted by Chloe Braun and Eva Boehlke, and anchored by Kozan.
 
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 Aidian Rikic.
 
TEAM CAPTAINS
This yr’s group 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 received eight championship titles and made it to the rostrum 19 occasions to take second place general. Finishing fourth general, the Triton males set new two program data and made it to the rostrum 4 occasions 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 data in addition to 5 UC San Diego program data.
 
UP NEXT
UC San Diego will journey to Los Angeles, Calif. to face USC and UNLV on Friday, January ninth. The meet is ready to start at 1 p.m. at Uytengsu Aquatics Center.

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 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 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 group 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 girls 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 sensible cellphone for all the pieces they should find out about every residence meet, together with up to date rosters, schedules, and stats for every group.

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 preferred podcasting apps and on UCSDTritons.com. For particular person present data and pay attention hyperlinks, observe Tritoncast on X @Tritoncast.

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FOR THE YOUNGER CROWD

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About UC San Diego Athletics

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