SAN DIEGO — The UC San Diego track and field team is headed across town this weekend to compete in San Diego State's Aztec Invitational on Friday and Saturday.
The Tritons will be joined at the meet by Army, BYU, San Diego, San Diego State, Washington and numerous unaffiliated athletes. The meet will take place at the SDSU Sports Deck. The lone exception is the hammer event on Friday, which will be contested at UC San Diego's
Triton Track & Field Stadium at 2:00 p.m.
MEET INFO
Aztec Invitational
San Diego, Calif.
Friday | March 21 | 2:00 p.m.
Saturday | March 22 | 9:00 a.m.
Full Schedule
Live Results
LAST TIME OUT
UC San Diego competed in Cal State Fullerton's Ben Brown Invite on March 7-8. The Tritons won seven events and set four schools records. Women's distance broke program records in the 3000m steeplechase (
Kelsie Yamano) and 5000m (
Sylvana Northrop). The men's sprint squad also broke two records in the 200m (
Anthony Flowers) and 4x100m (
Brycen Tablit,
Anthony Flowers,
Kian Maher,
Brandon Orlow).
BIG WEST'S BEST
Three Tritons have been recognized as The Big West Athletes of the Week this season.
Jaden Rucker (Men's Field) was honored on March 4 before Flowers and Northrop were selected on March 11.
ROSTER BREAKDOWN
The 2025 track and field squad is composed of 31 freshmen, 27 sophomores, 17 juniors, and 16 seniors.
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.
Coach Graham-Miller is a member of the Clemson Hall of Fame and was inducted into the Clemson Ring of Honor in the summer of 2024. It's the highest honor any Clemson student-athlete may earn.
ON THE MOVE
After 20 seasons playing as an NCAA Division II team and a four-year transition to NCAA Division I, the entire athletics program has reached full DI status and is now a member of
The Big West. The UC San Diego track and field team is eligible to compete in The Big West conference championships and qualify for the NCAAs.
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 X
@Tritoncast.
TRACK & FIELD ON TRITONCAST
GET SOCIAL WITH UC SAN DIEGO TRACK & FIELD
Keep up with the Tritons all season long on social media through
X 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 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 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.
