LA JOLLA, Calif. – Headed to the Bay Area, UC San Diego track and field are set to compete at the two-day Stanford Invitational.
 
Friday Schedule: Javelin (M), Hammer (M/W), Shot Put (W), Pole Vault (W), Long Jump, High Jump, Discus (M), 5000m, 100H, 110H, 1500m, 400m, 3200m, 400H, 200m, 1000m
Saturday Schedule: Hammer (W), Triple Jump, Shot Put (M), Pole Vault (M), Discus (W), 4x100, 800m, 100H Finals, 110H Finals, 100m Finals, 4x400

DETAILS
at Stanford Invitational
Friday and Saturday, March 29 and March 30
Cobb Track and Angell Field | Stanford, Calif. 
Meet Schedule (PDF)
Live Results
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LAST TIME OUT
Across town at the 45th annual Aztec Invitational, UC San Diego competed Friday and Saturday against some of the nation's top track and field teams. The Tritons posted 27 top 10 finishes with five new or improved top 10 all-time marks.
 
Battling the southern California rain on Saturday, the men finished sixth overall scoring 56 points while the women scored 26 points to finish eleventh.
 
In the 100m hurdles, Amari Jenkins ran a personal record with a time of 14.28. The time earned her a 20th place finish at the invite and moved her into 10th place in the Big West. Moving into the third-place top 10 all-time, Maxine Schultz ran 55.21 in the 400m dash finishing seventh at the invite. Her time now puts her fourth in the Big West in the event.
 
UC San Diego's highest finish came in the 1500m posted by Zeno Castiglioni. Finishing first, Castiglioni ran a time of 3:49.97 and now leads the Big West.
 
UP NEXT
UC San Diego will return to La Jolla to host the annual Triton Invitational
 
FLOWERS EARNS BIG WEST WEEKLY HONORS
On March 5, Anthony Flowers was selected as the Men's Track Athlete of the Week after his outstanding performance at the Beach Opener.
 
The freshman sprinter won the 200m dash with a time of a 21.23 at season opener on Saturday, March 2. With this time, Flowers now holds the No. 2 time all-time list and he leads the Big West. After opening weekend competition ended across the country, Flowers posted the second fastest national time.
 
Recording another top 10 finish at the meet, Flowers finished eighth in the 100m dash with a time of 10.79.
 
Flowers is the third Triton to earn Big West weekly honors and the first Triton to earn conference honors this season.
 
ROSTER BREAKDOWN
The 2024 track and field squad are composed of 39 freshmen, 13 sophomores, 11 juniors, 10 seniors, and 10 graduate students.
 
TRITONCAST HOSTS HEAD COACH KIM GRAHAM-MILLER
Tritoncast, the official podcast for UC San Diego Athletics, brought on Triton head coach Kim Graham-Miller to talk leading a program and her experience winning a gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympic Games.
 
Kim also discusses what it will be like to compete at home in this week's Triton Invitational. You can listen to the podcast at https://ucsdtritons.com/podcasts.
 
OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST KIM GRAHAM-MILLER TAKES THE HELM
UC San Diego Director of Athletics Earl W. Edwards announced the hiring of former Olympic gold medal-winner Kimberly Graham-Miller as the new head track & field coach of the Tritons on July 11, 2022. She took over UC San Diego's men's and women's programs after serving as an assistant coach at Sacramento State since 2014, working with relay teams and sprints and hurdles.  During her time in Sacramento, she helped coach the Hornets to six Big Sky Conference titles.
  
A 1993 graduate of Clemson University, she was a decorated athlete for the Tigers. The team captain was a three-time ACC Performer of the Year – the only woman to capture that honor three times. She was inducted into the Clemson Hall of Fame in 1999.
 
After graduating from Clemson, Graham-Miller took part in the 1995 Indoor and Outdoor World Championships, where she was a semifinalist in the 400-meter. Competing for the United States in the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, she was a 400-meter semifinalist before capturing a gold medal as part of the 4x400 meter relay team.

ON THE MOVE
After 20 seasons playing as an NCAA Division II team, the entire athletics program is in its third year of a four-year transition to NCAA Division I, culminating in full DI status as a member of The Big West for the 2024-25 academic year. At that time, all sports will be eligible for conference and NCAA postseason play.

WHY THE TRITONS?
The Triton is described as the offspring of Poseidon and Amphitrite, a demigod of the sea with a lower part of the body like that of a fish. It is known as a mighty and fierce sea warrior. Given UC San Diego's close proximity to the Pacific Ocean and its connections with the world-famous Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the Triton became our mascot in 1964.
 
TRITON TRACK TALK ON UC SAN DIEGO ATHLETICS' 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. New episodes of Tritoncast are available each week on the most popular podcasting apps. In addition, each episode can be heard and downloaded on UCSDTritons.com. For individual show information and listen links, follow Tritoncast on Twitter @Tritoncast.
 
TRACK & FIELD ON TRITONCAST

Episode	Published	Guest(s)	Listen Link
09	8/26/20	Claudia Cox '20, TAC President	Listen
18	10/28/20	Vince Tedjasaputra '09, Nat'l. Science Foundation	Listen
33	2/10/21	Valentine's Day Special	Listen
65	10/19/22	Derek Brajevich '22, Leadership, Mental Agility	Listen
68	11/09/22	Amari Jenkins '24, Black Triton Association	Listen
78	04/05/2023	Kim Graham-Miller, Head Coach	Listen

GET SOCIAL WITH UC SAN DIEGO TRACK & FIELD
Keep up with the Tritons all season long on social media through Twitter and Instagram. The team's handle is @ucsdtrackfield.
 
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 has begun a new era 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 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 NCAA Division I or II. For more information on the Tritons, visit UCSDtritons.com or follow UC San Diego Athletics on social media @UCSDtritons.