SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — The Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) has selected two Tritons as the MPSF Fencers of the Week for Jan. 22. Zehra Anbarlilar and Jacob Levy earned the honor after their standout performances at last weekend's Philadelphia Invitational.

Anbarlilar finished with an incredible 17-2 record across seven bouts in Philadelphia. Five of those bouts came against ranked teams. Anbarlilar's foil team nearly went undefeated on the weekend but lost by just one point to both No. 2 Notre Dame and No. 7 Penn. Overall, the Triton women went 4-3 with wins over No. 8 Cornell, No. 13 Penn State, Johns Hopkins and Sacred Heart.

A sophomore, Anbarlilar is a cognitive science major at Sixth College who hails from Istanbul, Turkey. The foilist has a record of 28-9 this year and 54-17 in her career.

Levy went 10-6 in Philadelphia as the No. 15 UC San Diego men faced eight teams, seven of them ranked. He had two wins against both No. 2 Notre Dame and No. 4 Princeton. As a team the Triton men picked up victories over No. 11 NYU, No. 13 Sacred Heart and No. 14 Johns Hopkins.

A junior, Levy is a general biology major at Seventh College who hails from Fresno, Calif. The foilist has a record of 13-12 this year and 51-34 in his career.

The Tritons will be back in action next weekend, Feb. 1-2, at the Northwestern Duals. That event will be the team's final regular season competition of the year ahead of NCAA Regionals and MPSF Championships March 8-9.

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.

About the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation
The Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) was established in 1992-1993 to serve the competitive needs of member institutions from the Big West, Pacific-10 (now the Pac-12) and Western Athletic Conferences, as well as other selected universities in the western United States; and to provide championship competition for Division-I Intercollegiate Olympic sports in a conference setting. The founding principles on which the MPSF was originally formed were to provide enhanced competition and championship opportunities for sports without conference affiliation, to contain the costs of competition, and to ensure the survival of endangered sports. The MPSF has also served as an incubator for emerging women's sports and as a safe harbor for sports impacted by conference realignments. Since its inaugural season, the MPSF has seen its charter conference membership grow by the addition of the Mountain West and West Coast Conferences and their respective member institutions, as well as the addition of women's water polo, women's gymnastics, fencing, artistic swimming, beach volleyball, men's rowing, men's and women's swimming and diving, and men's and women's wrestling. As a testament to its viability, the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation continues to successfully navigate the ever-changing sea of college sports by fostering contraction and expansion of its sports portfolio to meet the dynamic needs of its members. As the MPSF is in its 33rd season during the 2024-25 academic year and continues its legacy of championship competition, it affirms the vision of its founders and the relevance of its founding principles.