UC San Diego

MEDIA

• Tritoncast (09/16/20)
• UC San Diego Athletics Levels Up With Access to Mindfulness Training (03/18/21)

Corrie Falcon has been with the UC San Diego Athletics Department since 2007 in numerous roles, and currently serves with the Tritons as the Director of Coach Development and Leadership. 
 
A two-time U.S. national champion and a two-year team captain at USC as a member of the swimming team, Falcon was named the head coach of the Triton women’s swimming team on Aug. 25, 2011 and served in that role through the 2016-17 season. She stepped away from coaching following that season to focus on the leadership development of athletes and coaches across the athletic department.
 
Prior to being named head coach, Falcon had been an assistant coach at UC San Diego for the previous four years beginning in 2007.
 
She served as the recruiting coordinator for both the men and women's teams and as the director of UC San Diego swimming camps and clinics. She coached former Triton standout Alex Henley, who won three NCAA titles (400 IM in 2010, 200 butterfly in 2010 and 2011) and holds seven school records.
 
UC San Diego produced 17 individual champions and one relay national champion during Falcon's 10 seasons with the program. Her teams produced 144 individual conference titles, eight conference team titles, over 43 team records and eight Olympic Trial qualifiers. Falcon was also a three-time consecutive Pacific Collegiate Swimming and Diving Conference Women's Coach of the Year.  
 
In 2015-16 Falcon guided the Triton men and women each to an eighth consecutive PCSC title and in 2014, she was awarded the UC San Diego Excellence in Coaching award.
 
During the 2011-12 season, the Triton women posted a third-place NCAA finish for the fourth year in succession and 10th time in 12 appearances at the Division II event. The UC San Diego men also took a fourth PCSC crown in as many seasons before turning in a second straight national runner-up effort.
 
In her final turn as assistant coach in 2010-11, Falcon helped the Tritons put together one of their finest seasons. UC San Diego won its third consecutive PCSC title on both the men and women's sides and went on to post a tremendous showing at the NCAA Championships. The men were second, the team's highest finish to date at the Division II level, while the women took third.
 
Prior to coming to UC San Diego, Falcon was the head coach at San Diego Mesa College in 2006-07. In 2005-06, she founded Falcon Swim Clinics in Perth, Australia. Falcon has coached with the Bristol Penguin Olympic Swimming Club in England, as well as at her alma mater.
 
As a competitor on the national scene, Falcon won a pair of U.S. titles - one in the 400 IM (1996), the other in the 800 free relay (2000). She swam in two World University Games (1999, 2001) and was a multiple-event finalist at the 1996 and 2000 Olympic Trials.
 
A 2002 graduate of USC, Falcon was named the Trojans' Most Valuable Swimmer in 1999-2000, and was runner-up in the 400 IM at the 2000 NCAA Division I Championships.
 
Falcon has completed graduate studies in performance psychology, is the director of mindfulness based training for athletes at UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness, is a certified professional coach through International Coach Federation, is a trained Predictive Index behavioral assessment facilitator and a certified yoga instructor.

Falcon earned a degree in communication while minoring in psychology at USC.
 
A lifelong learner and avid surfer, Falcon resides in Solana Beach with her husband and two children.