2012-13 TAF Brochure - UC San Diego Athletics

2011-12 Triton Highlights
-For the second consecutive year, Men’s & Women’s Swimming & Diving
were second and third respectively at the NCAA Division II Championships
-Women’s Basketball spent seven weeks ranked No. 1 in the nation
-Softball followed up its 2011 NCAA title with a second place national
finish while Baseball captured its fourth straight CCAA regular season and
tournament crowns
-For the first time since 2006, Men’s Water Polo won the WWPA
championship and went to the NCAA Final Four
-Overall, 15 teams represented UC San Diego in post-season play
UC San Diego National Champions
1970 Men’s Volleyball
1981 Women’s Volleyball
1984 Women’s Volleyball
1985 Women’s Tennis
1986 Women’s Water Polo
1986 Women’s Volleyball
1987 Women’s Tennis
1987 Women’s Volleyball
1988 Men’s Soccer
1988 Women’s Volleyball
1989 Women’s Tennis
1989 Women’s Soccer
1990 Women’s Water Polo
1990 Women’s Volleyball
1991 Women’s Water Polo
1991 Men’s Soccer
1992 Women’s Water Polo
1993 Men’s Golf
1993 Men’s Soccer
1994 Women’s Tennis
1994 Women’s Water Polo
1995 Women’s Soccer
1996 Women’s Soccer
1997 Women’s Volleyball
1997 Women’s Soccer
1999 Women’s Soccer
2000 Men’s Volleyball
2000 Women’s Soccer
2001 Women’s Soccer
2011 Softball
Academic Achievement
Perhaps as impressive as UCSD’s on-the-field athletic prowess
is the equally high standard reached by its student-athletes in
the classroom. More than 165 UC San Diego student-athletes
have attained the distinction of GTE Academic All-American
and 27 have earned prestigious NCAA Post-Graduate
Scholarships.
UCSD student-athletes compete in an incredibly rigorous
academic environment.The average GPA of UCSD’s most
recently admitted freshman class was 4.07 and its average
SAT score was 1968. In every year since UCSD moved to
NCAA Division II, the average GPA of UCSD student-athletes
has been higher than that of the student body at-large and
almost 60% of UCSD’s nearly 600 student-athletes recorded
GPA’s of 3.00 or better.
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UC San Diego Athletics
a proud tradition of academic and athletic excellence
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The mission of the Triton Athletic Fund (TAF) is to support the UC San Diego Athletic
Department in its endeavor to provide an optimal student-athlete experience for the
more than 600 men and women participating on its 23 intercollegiate teams.
Your contribution is an investment in the tradition of athletic and academic excellence
developed over more than three decades. Under the leadership of 12th-year Director of
Athletics Earl W. Edwards, UC San Diego has established itself among the elite programs
at the NCAA Division II level and been a dominant force in the California Collegiate
Athletic Association (CCAA), the country’s premier Division II conference.
Despite the challenge of being the nation’s only Division II institution not offering
traditional athletic scholarships, UC San Diego finished seventh in the 2012 Learfield
Sports Directors’ Cup standings, which annually rank the nation’s top overall programs
in each division. UC San Diego has finished in the Top 10 during 11 of its 12 years at
the D-II level. Additionally, the Tritons have captured the CCAA Commissioner’s Cup,
emblematic of the No. 1 overall program in the conference, five times in the last seven
years.
With 30 national titles, 42 runner-up and 42 third place finishes since 1981, UCSD’s
competitive competence is clear. More importantly, however, Triton student-athletes
reach the same level of accomplishment in the classroom and community. Nearly twothirds
of UC San Diego’s student-athletes post GPAs of 3.0 or better and as a group
consistently maintain a cumulative GPA higher than that of the student body at-large.
A testament to its combined proficiency is that for the seventh consecutive year, UCSD
has been No. 1 in the National Collegiate Scouting Association’s (NCSA) Division II Power
Rankings that link competitive achievement, academic prowess and graduation rate.
As part of a consistent commitment to service, student-athletes, coaches and staff
participate with a variety of campus and community organizations as varied as the
Susan G.Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Make-a-Wish Foundation, American Red
Cross and San Diego’s Project Alpha for the homeless.
Your donations to the Triton Athletic Fund help the UCSD Athletic Department provide
its student-athletes the best that intercollegiate athletics has to offer—a valuable,
diversified experience that benefits them far beyond their years at the University.
Funds are used for such items as team
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Triton
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travel, equipment, uniforms, recruiting
and otherwise improving the studentathletes’
undergraduate years. Never
has your support been more important.
As UCSD Athletics looks to secure its future
in an ever-changing collegiate athletic
environment, the ability to generate
self-sustaining revenue is critical. In order
to extend the unprecedented forward
motion of the past decade, it is imperative
that our progress through efforts such as
the TAF not be diminished.
Donations can be directed to a specific
intercollegiate team or designated for
the general fund. The TAF operates under
the direction of the Athletic Director, in
close cooperation with the University
Development Office and the Office of
the Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs.