LA JOLLA, Calif. — The Tennis Recruiting Network announced its annual recruiting class rankings Monday, and UC San Diego men's tennis has its highest ranking in program history. The Tritons are ranked No. 22 nationally among all mid-major programs.
The incoming class of 2026 is only the third Triton recruiting class to appear in the mid-major rankings. UC San Diego was previously ranked No. 24 in both 2023 and 2011.
Head coach
Timmer Willing and associate head coach
Jake De Vries have secured four commitments from this year's high school recruiting class, with each incoming scholar-athlete ranked as a four-star recruit. Two San Diego natives, Nicholas Lilov and Oskar Rouse, will be joined in La Jolla by Samuel He (South San Francisco) and Ivan Pflueger (Newport Beach). He (No. 77), Rouse (No. 81) and Lilov (No. 93) are all top-100 recruits.
The rankings only include high school recruits. The Tritons will also add transfer scholar-athlete Cayden Wang from Vanderbilt to the team next season. Wang, an Irvine native, was a four-star recruit ranked No. 50 in the class of 2025.
The newcomers join a Triton team that featured six underclassmen in the 2025-26 season. Two-thirds of UC San Diego's lineup spots at this season's Big West Championship were filled by those underclassmen.
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 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.
