Everything you need to know and anything you might have missed regarding UC San Diego Athletics for the week of March 31-April 6.
 
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Here's a list of all the Tritons competing in La Jolla this week:
Friday, April 4 » Track & Field Triton Invitational
Friday, April 4 at 4 p.m. » Softball vs UC Santa Barbara
Friday, April 4 at 6 p.m. » Softball vs UC Santa Barbara
Friday, April 4 at 7 p.m. » Men's Volleyball vs. UC Irvine
Saturday, April 5 » Track & Field Triton Invitational
Saturday, April 5 at 1 p.m. » Softball vs UC Santa Barbara
 
GIVEAWAYS
Friday, Men's Volleyball vs UC Irvine » ALZtogether Night - (post-match autographs)
Friday, Softball vs UC Santa Barbara» (Sports Visor Sunglasses for first 100 fans)
 
AWARDS
UCU Athletes of the Week » Second Varsity Eight+ -  Kevork Tchakmakjian, Charlie Josephbek, Bryce Blair, Archie McKirdy, Mattis Hevin, Andrew Saska, Michael McMaster and Charles Talley, Vahram Tchakmakjian (MROW) and Julia Haynes (WTEN)
CAA Boat of the Week » Varsity Eight+ -  Kiera Cooper, Lily Feagler, Samantha Anderson, Annica Ford, Laine Bradley, Ciara Auran, Natalie Norstad and Natasha Vallancey, Sabina Petersen (WROW)
Academic All-District Swimming Teams »  Sophia Bell, Sabrina Bennani, Chloe Braun, Minh-Nha Kawamura,  Luigi Franco, Colton Milne, Ryan Kirton, and Robby Griswold (SWIM)
 
MEN'S BASKETBALL
This Week » Aniwaniwa Tait-Jones has been selected to play in the NABC-Reese's Division I College All-Star Game Friday afternoon at the NCAA Men's Final Four in San Antonio. The game will take place inside Alamodome at 3:30 p.m. CDT (1:30 p.m. PT) and will be televised live on CBS Sports Network.
 
Need to Know » UC San Diego Director of Athletics Earl W. Edwards has named Clint Allard '08 the new head men's basketball coach of the Tritons.
 

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BASEBALL (14-13, 5-4 BIG WEST)
This Week » UC San Diego returns to Big West play at Cal Poly, this weekend.
 
Last Time Out » The Tritons dropped their midweek game vs Cal Baptist and went 1-3 against Santa Clara.
 
Need to Know » Thomas Maher made his first collegiate start at third base and recorded his first hit and run batted in in the contest.
 

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SOFTBALL (7-21, 5-7 BIG WEST)
This Week » UC San Diego heads to UCLA on Tuesday and returns home for three games against UC Santa Barbara.
 
Last Time Out » The Tritons took a loss against New Mexico and went 1-2 over the weekend when they played Cal State Bakersfield.
 
Need to Know » UC San Diego scored five runs in the first inning of the second game against Cal State Bakersfield which they have not done since 2023 vs. CSUN.
 

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TRACK AND FIELD
This Week » The Tritons will be competing on home soil as they host the annual Triton Invitational.
 
Last Time Out » The first split-squad weekend of the season for UC San Diego track and field wrapped on Saturday with a pair of school records at the Texas Relays. The Tritons also won three events at the Mangrum Invitational, hosted by Cal State San Marcos.
 
Need to Know » The 4x200m team set the first school record after finishing eighth with a time of 1:24.54. Brandon Orlow, Anthony Flowers, Brycen Tablit and Kian Maher now have the school record in both the 4x200 and 4x100.  UC San Diego's second school record came in the 4x800m. Sully Nordheim, Nathan Garderes, Shane Badcock and Kai Dettman ran 7:30.56 to finish fifth.
 
WOMEN'S WATER POLO (13-12, 2-2 BIG WEST)
This Week » The Tritons continue conference play on Saturday at CSUN.
 
Last Time Out » UC San Diego narrowly lost their game against #6 Long Beach State, 11-13.
 
Need to Know » Caroline Christl ran her goal-scoring streak to 19 games at Long Beach State.
 
MEN'S VOLLEYBALL (16-6, 2-2 BIG WEST)
This Week » The Tritons will play a pair of matches against UC Irvine. They will be at home on Friday and in Irvine on Saturday.
 
Last Time Out » The Tritons played two matches at Hawai'i where they went 0-3 in the first game and 1-3 in the second.
 
MEN'S GOLF
This Week » UC San Diego travels to the familiar Redhawk Invitational March 31 and April 1.
 
Last Time Out » The UC San Diego Golf Team propelled itself to a ninth-place finish among 20 squads at its own UC San Diego Invitational.
 
Need to Know » Junior Francis Catalano was the top Triton at the UC San Diego Invitational, shooting 8-over to tie for 14th.
 

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MEN'S TENNIS (5-10, 2-1 BIG WEST)
This Week » UC San Diego heads to Hawai'i for another Big West matchup.
 
Last Time Out » The Tritons took a 3-4 loss against No. 62 Dartmouth and a 4-0 Big West win over UC Riverside.
 
Need to Know » Pelayo Rodriguez has now won three of his last four matches.
 
WOMEN'S TENNIS (9-7, 4-2 BIG WEST)
This Week »
 
Last Time Out » UC San Diego lost to Dartmouth 3-4 and beat UC Riverside, 4-0, and UC Irvine, 4-3.
 
Need to Know » UC San Diego has won four Big West matches for the first time since moving to Division I
 
MEN'S ROWING
This Week » The Tritons have a short turnaround ahead, returning to action this weekend at Stanford's Redwood Shores Invitational April 5-6.
 
Last Time Out » The lone home event of the season for UC San Diego men's rowing featured three varsity eight boats in action this Saturday and Sunday at the San Diego Crew Classic.
 
Need to Know » UC San Diego's 2V8+ boat the Marine Corps Cup by over five seconds, coming in with a time of 6:13.121.
 

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