LONG BEACH, Calif. – UC San Diego newcomer Julia Haynes won the Beach Tennis Fall Tournament hosted by Long Beach State on Sunday at the Rhodes Tennis Center. The women's tennis grad student captured the singles title in an event which featured nine Big West schools.
 
Haynes, the true bracket's top seed, went a perfect 5-0 over the four-day event to win the title in dominant fashion. In Sunday's championship, Haynes was a 6-4, 6-2 winner over UC Santa Barbara's Raphaelle Leroux, the tournament's third seed. For the weekend, Haynes won 10 of the 11 sets she played.
 
Eight Tritons took part in the Beach Fall Tournament: Julia Haynes, Varsha Jawadi, Polina Jorniak, Kelly Leung, Allison Lian, Naomi Nguyen, Katelyn Vu, and Athena Wardy played singles. The doubles pairings were: Haynes/Vu, Jawadi/Wardy, Nguyen/Lian, and Jorniak/Leung.
 
UC San Diego returns to the court on Oct. 17 at the ITA Southwest Regional Championships in San Diego.
 
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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 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.