PALO ALTO, Calif. – UC San Diego men's and women's teams competed at NCAA West Regional Championships with Vedran Markota and Renee Zuhars sweeping epee to take gold for both sides. Seven Tritons total made the podium.
 
ON THE WOMEN'S SIDE
In saber, Sarah Shen, Janna Aboudaher, Zara Fearns, and Roxane Cayrat represented the Tritons. The squad took sixth, seventh, eighth, and tenth.
 
Kyra Wu, Rafaella Gomes, Joanne Luong, and Emily Luo represented the gold and blue in foil. Wu posted an 8-2 record on the day to take silver. Gomes finished in fifth place with Luong and Luo taking tenth and eleventh place respectively.
 
Taking gold in epee, Renee Zuhars posted a 12-2 record on the day. Joining Zuhars was Tean Brooks, Amelia Wu, and Bella Balogh. Brooks finished fourth on the day with Wu taking fifth just behind her, and Balogh finished thirteenth.
 
ON THE MEN'S SIDE
In foil, Larry Song, Jacob Levy, Lucas Zeng, Rishi Ranadive represented the gold and blue with two taking the podium. Song posted an 8-2 record to take silver with Levy taking third with a 7-3 record.
 
The saber squad of Shawn Kim, Jerry Pan, Phileas Auray, and Daniel Noble also took second and third. Kim went 10-3 to take silver with Pan going 8-5 to finish third. Auray and Noble finished a six and seven respectively.
 
Vedran Markota went 12-2 in epee to take gold over the field of 15. His teammates took fourth, fifth, and sixth. Isaac Ive went 9-5 to finish fourth. Derek Rong also finished 9-5 to take fifth place, and Milan Rona went 8-6 to finish sixth.
 
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"I am very proud of the competitiveness the team out together on the strips today," head coach Juan Ignacio commented. "It was a very solid performance across weapons that puts us in a strong position to go for the MPSF Championship tomorrow and to qualify a record number for NCAAs."
 
UP NEXT
The Triton squads return to the strips tomorrow to compete at the MPSF Conference Championships hosted by Stanford with action sent to begin at 9:00 am. Live results are available on ucsdtritons.com.
 
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 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 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.