LA JOLLA, Calif. - Two former UC San Diego men's volleyball players recently teamed up to win a USA Collegiate Men's Beach World Qualifying Tournament in Hermosa Beach, Calif.

Charlie Siragusa and Wyatt Harrison will now represent the United States at the Beach World University Championships, which take place Sept. 6-10 in Maceio, Brazil.

Harrison recently completed his senior year as a Triton. In 2020, he was named All-Big West Conference Honorable Mention. 

Siragusa has been a member of the USA Beach Collegiate National Team since 2020.

Both Harrison and Siragusa were members of the 2021 UC San Diego squad that advanced to the finals of the Big West Championship Tournament.

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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 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 II and III and helped guide 1,400 scholar-athletes to All-America honors. A total of 84 Tritons have earned Academic All-America honors, while 38 have earned 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.