LA JOLLA, Calif. – For the second time in the last three seasons, the Vancouver Whitecaps FC of Major League Soccer recently wrapped up training on the UC San Diego campus. Vancouver utilized UC San Diego's RIMAC Fields for training in addition to the Spanos Athletic Performance Center facilities for strength and conditioning. The Whitecaps played two exhibition matches inside Triton Soccer Stadium, facing the Tijuana Xolos of Liga MX and the USL's New Mexico United.
The Whitecaps also used UC San Diego as its winter training site in 2020 prior to the start of the COVID 19 pandemic.
The Whitecaps are not the first pro team to train on the UC San Diego campus. In 2018, AS Roma of Italian Serie A
prepped for the International Champions Cup at the Tritons' facility in La Jolla.
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After two decades as one of the most successful programs in NCAA Division II, the UC San Diego intercollegiate athletics program has begun a new era 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 II and III and helped guide 1,400 scholar-athletes to All-America honors. A total of 83 Tritons have earned Academic All-America honors, while 38 have garnered 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 90 percent, the highest rate among public institutions in Division I or II. For more information on the Tritons, visit UCSDtritons.com or follow UC San Diego Athletics on social media @UCSDtritons.
