LA JOLLA, Calif. – Throughout the month of May, the UC San Diego Athletics video series Between Two Zooms will give fans the opportunity to hear from Triton coaches and leaders. 

Today’s edition of Between Two Zooms features the head coach of the UC San Diego softball team, Patti Gerckens. Gerckens spoke with Triton play-by-play broadcaster Seth Smith about the 2020 season and Team 44, preparing for the Big West, the importance of connection during the pandemic, and more. 

Check back on UCSDtritons.com later this week as Ted Mendenhall chats with the head coach of the baseball team, Eric Newman. 

Previous Between Two Zooms chats:

Heidi VanDerveer, women's basketball

Eric Olen, men's basketball 

Earl Edwards, Director of Athletics

Kevin Ring, men’s volleyball 

About UC San Diego Athletics
After two decades as one of the most successful programs in NCAA Division II, the UC San Diego intercollegiate athletics program begins a new era in 2020 as a member of the Big West Conference inNCAA Division I.  The 23-sport Tritons earned 30 team and nearly 150 individual national championships during its time in Divisions III and II and helped guide more than 1,300 scholar-athletes to All-America honors.  A total of 82 Tritons have earned Academic All-America honors, while 37 have earned prestigious NCAA Post Graduate Scholarships.  UC San Diego student-athletes exemplify the academic ideals of one of the world's preeminent institutions, graduating at an average rate of 91 percent, one of the highest rates among institutions at all divisions