UC San Diego’s track and field team is set to compete in its final indoor meet of the season at the Battle Born Classic, taking place this Friday and Saturday at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center in Nevada. The event marks the conclusion of the Tritons’ third indoor meet of 2026.
A total of 22 UC San Diego scholar-athletes are scheduled to participate in various events during the competition. This indoor season, the Tritons previously competed at the Nevada Invitational in Reno and at the Riverfront Invitational in Spokane, Washington.
This year represents only the second time that UC San Diego has sponsored an indoor track and field program. At last year’s Big West Track & Field Championships, two Triton athletes earned individual titles: Tamara Aimufia won the women’s long jump, while Feyi Olukanni took first place in the women’s shot put. Both athletes return for this season. The women’s 4x400m relay team also secured a championship last year, with Jordyn Thomas returning from that squad.
The Tritons qualified six athletes for the First Round of the 2025 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships; five of them are competing again this season: Tamara Aimufia (jumps), Miles Bennett (jumps), Anthony Flowers (sprints), Sylvana Northrop (distance), and Feyi Olukanni (throws).
Looking ahead, UC San Diego will participate in the 2026 Big West Track & Field Championships on May 15-16 at Long Beach State. The heptathlon and decathlon will take place a week earlier at UC Irvine. This year marks just their second postseason eligibility since joining Division I. Last year, Triton women finished fifth overall while men placed seventh at the conference championships.
Kim Graham-Miller leads as head coach for both men’s and women’s programs after being hired on July 11, 2022. Graham-Miller is a former Olympic gold medalist who previously served as an assistant coach at Sacramento State beginning in 2014, where she contributed to six Big Sky Conference titles. She was a three-time ACC Performer of the Year as a student-athlete at Clemson University and was inducted into both Clemson’s Hall of Fame and Ring of Honor.
“Coach Graham-Miller is a member of the Clemson Hall of Fame and was inducted into the Clemson Ring of Honor in the summer of 2024. It’s the highest honor any Clemson student-athlete may earn.”
The Triton mascot was chosen due to UC San Diego’s proximity to the Pacific Ocean and its connection with Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
As part of their transition to Division I athletics, UC San Diego Athletics produces “Tritoncast,” a weekly podcast featuring interviews with athletes, alumni, coaches, and administrators. Episodes are available on major podcast platforms and can be accessed through UCSDtritons.com or by following @Tritoncast on X.
Fans can follow UC San Diego track & field throughout their season via Facebook, X, or Instagram under @ucsdtrackfield.
After more than twenty years as one of NCAA Division II’s top programs—amassing thirty team national championships and nearly one hundred fifty individual titles—UC San Diego joined The Big West conference in Division I. The university has produced over fourteen hundred All-America honorees across divisions II and III, along with eighty-three Academic All-Americans and thirty-nine NCAA Post Graduate Scholarship recipients. Scholar-athletes graduate at an average rate of ninety percent—the highest among public institutions in NCAA Division I or II.
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