LA JOLLA, Calif. — UC San Diego women's water polo standout Holly Roberts has been selected to play for the New Zealand Women's U20 National Team that will compete at the 2025 World Aquatics Women's U20 Women's Water Polo Championships. 

Roberts is one of 14 players from New Zealand that will travel to the event, which is scheduled for August 10-16 in Salvador, Brazil.

She recently wrapped her first season as a Triton, which culminated in her earning a spot on the Big West All-Freshman Team.

Roberts was one of seven UC San Diego players that saw action in all 31 games. The center finished with 14 goals and 13 assists for 27 points. Her assist total was the fifth-highest on the team. Defensively, Roberts recorded five field blocks and 17 steals, which ranked tied for second and eighth, respectively, on the roster. She netted a season-high four goals against No. 14 Michigan and rang up four points with a goal and three assists versus No. 4 California.

Hailing from Auckland, Roberts joined fellow Kiwi Lucia Doak on the Triton roster in 2025.

Roberts competed for Baradene College of the Sacred Heart in high school.

UC San Diego, which climbed to a No. 9 national ranking, finished its campaign with a 17-14 overall record and a 4-3 mark in Big West play. The Tritons served as the fourth seed in the Big West Championship, where they defeated fifth-seeded UC Santa Barbara in a quarterfinal before falling to top-seeded Hawai'i in a semifinal.
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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 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.