CHULA VISTA, Calif. – The UC San Diego women's rowing team is set to open its 2021 season competing against San Diego State for the Patty Wyatt Cup at the Elite Athlete Training Center in Chula Vista.
DETAILS
Race 1
Patty Wyatt Cup
Opponent: San Diego State
Friday, April 16
Otay Lake
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WELCOME TO THE CAA
UC San Diego is the newest member of the Colonial Athletic Association. The Tritons join six other schools in the CAA which sponsor women's rowing: UConn, Delaware, Drexel, Eastern Michigan, Northeastern, and Villanova. UC San Diego will face its new conference opponents this spring at the CAA Championships, which will be held on May 16 in Cooper River, N.J.
HEAD COACH COLIN TRUEX
Colin Truex in his ninth season in charge of the UC San Diego women's rowing program. During the Division II era, Truex guided the Tritons to appearances in the NCAA Championships in 2013, 2017, 2018, and 2019. In 2018, UC San Diego's Varsity 8 matched a program best with a runner-up finish in the grand final. In both 2018 and 2019, Truex's Tritons were ranked as high as No. 2 in the CRCA/USRowing Coaches Poll.
LAST TIME OUT
Although the Patty Wyatt Cup is the official start to the Tritons' season, they previously scrimmaged Loyola Marymount on April 10 at Mission Bay.
A LONG WAIT
Because the 2020 spring season was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, 685 days will have passed between the Tritons' season opener on Friday and their last official spring competition (the final day of the 2019 NCAA Championships).
UP NEXT
Next, the Tritons will head to Lake Natoma. They will take on Sacramento State at 7 a.m. on May 1.
GET SOCIAL WITH THE TRITONS
Keep up with the Tritons all season long on social media. Follow the team on
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Instagram (@UCSDwrowing).
UC SAN DIEGO ATHLETICS LAUNCHES WEEKLY PODCAST
As part of UC San Diego's transition to Division I, the Athletics Department launched a weekly podcast,
Tritoncast. Produced by UC San Diego Athletics Communications, Tritoncast features in-depth interviews with UC San Diego personalities including scholar-athletes, alums, coaches, and administrators. Triton fans will get an inside look at the UC San Diego Athletics Department as the program transitions to NCAA Division I and the Big West Conference.
New episodes of Tritoncast are available each week on the most popular podcasting apps, including Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Audible, iHeartRadio, Pandora, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, and Vurbl. In addition, each episode can be heard and downloaded on UCSDTritons.com. For individual show information and listen links, follow Tritoncast on Twitter
@Tritoncast.
WOMEN'S ROWING ON TRITONCAST
Check out Tritoncast interviews with current scholar-athletes
Genevieve Cassidy and
Taylor Iantosca, as well as alumna
Shruti Kamath.
FOR THE YOUNGER CROWD
Got some young Triton fans in your family? If they are eighth grade or under, check out the
Junior Triton Club. Membership includes a free t-shirt, admission to over 100 UC San Diego home athletic events, and much more!
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For the latest Triton apparel and accessories, visit the official team store of the Tritons
here.
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 began a new era in 2020 as a member of the Big West Conference in NCAA 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 1,400 scholar-athletes to All-America honors. A total of 83 Tritons have earned Academic All-America accolades, while 38 have received prestigious NCAA Post Graduate Scholarships. UC San Diego scholar-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.
Return To Sport… Safely
In order for UC San Diego scholar-athletes to be permitted to return to training and competition safely and within federal, state, local and university guidelines, the athletic department implemented a number of measures designed to complement and enhance the university's highly-successful Return To Learn program. Notable actions include being physically distanced when practical, including during out-of-season training sessions; wearing masks, except when undergoing physically strenuous exercise; and maintaining proper hygiene. Athletes, coaches and staff are testing at a higher frequency than the campus population, teams adhere to CDC, NCAA and Big West Conference guidelines and department officials participate in regular meetings with conference and university-affiliated physicians and the UC San Diego emergency operations staff.
