LA JOLLA, Calif. — Two UC San Diego men's soccer scholar-athletes received Pac-12 All-Conference accolades today, as voted on by the league's head coaches. Sean Ueda is a First Team selection, with Ryan Namdar receiving Second Team honors.
 
Ueda is now the second Triton to earn a First Team All-Conference selection in the program's six-year Division I history. UC San Diego has 10 All-Conference men's soccer selections in DI, with 2026 marking the third time that multiple players have been honored in the same season.
 
Ueda is a sophomore from Santa Clara, California, majoring in business psychology at Sixth College. The central midfielder played in and started 16 of UC San Diego's 17 matches, finishing third on the team in minutes with 1,384. Ueda had a goal and an assist coupled with just one yellow card as the engine in the Tritons' midfield.
 
Namdar is a junior from Mission Viejo, California, majoring in data science at Sixth College. The striker played in 14 matches, all as a substitute, but still finished as the Tritons' leading goal scorer with seven goals to go along with a pair of assists. That is a DI program record for most goals in a season.
 
The Tritons had a record of 7-6-4 this season, with their 1-1-4 mark in Pac-12 matches good for fifth in the conference standings. A .529 overall winning percentage was the program's best in DI. Head coach Jon Pascale's team also set or tied DI program records in goals scored (29), highest conference winning percentage (.500), shutouts (5) and road wins (4). The Tritons received votes in the United Soccer Coaches Poll on Oct. 6, marking the first time in DI that the Tritons received Top 25 votes.
 
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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 has begun a new era as a member of The Big West in NCAA Division I. The 24-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 39 have garnered 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 90 percent, the highest rate among public institutions in NCAA Division I or II. For more information on the Tritons, visit UCSDtritons.com or follow UC San Diego Athletics on social media @UCSDtritons.