SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — Sunny Sharma has collected his second award this week after the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) announced him today as the MPSF Men's Fencer of the Week. Sharma was previously named one of UC San Diego's University Credit Union Athletes of the Week on Monday.

The honor comes on the heels of the Tritons' trip last weekend to Northwestern's Schiller Duals. The Triton men went 7-3 at the competition, including a sweep of the other MPSF schools with wins over Incarnate Word 23-4 and Air Force 19-8. Sharma's epee squad finished 8-2.

In 10 matches at the Schiller Duals, UC San Diego's final regular season contest of the season, Sharma went 17-3 (.800). His best performances were a 3-0 result against Stanford and 2-1 records versus Air Force, No. 2 Notre Dame and No. 6 Ohio State. The junior's .850 winning percentage and 17 wins are both the best marks of his career at a single competition.

This is the first MPSF weekly honor of Sharma's career. He is the third Triton to earn the award this season after Zehra Anbarlilar and Jacob Levy won on Jan. 22.

A native of San Jose, California, Sharma is a business psychology major at Roosevelt College. He has a 41-18 (.695) record this season and a 92-50 (.648) mark in his career.

The Tritons will be back in action March 8-9 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on the Air Force campus for the NCAA Regional Championship and MPSF Championship.

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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 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.