A Proud Tradition of Academic

and Athletic Excellence!

• Individually, 135 Triton student-athletes have captured National Championships and a remarkable 1,034 student-athletes have been named to All-America teams.

• UCSD student-athletes have excelled academically as well, earning 24 prestigious NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarships and 145 Academic All-America selections. Consistently, over 55 percent of the student-athletes earn a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher, placing them on the Athletic Director's Honor Roll.
  
  
• In 2009, UCSD was ranked first in Division II and seventh overall in the National Collegiate Scouting Association Power Rankings, which are based on student-athlete graduation rates, academic strength, and athletic prowess of the university. 
  

• in 2009-10, UCSD posted an eighth place finish out of over 300 schools in the Learfield Sports Director's Cup, an award emblematic of the best overall athletics department in the country. Since moving to the NCAA Division II level in 2000, UCSD has placed in the top seven programs in the country on nine different occasions and finished second overall twice. 

• Beginning in 2005-06, UCSD has won the last five California Collegiate Athletic Association Commissioner's Cup titles, an award symbolizing the best overall athletics department in the CCAA.