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LA JOLLA, Calif. \u2014 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.
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\nThe 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.
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\nHead coach Timmer Willing<\/a> and associate head coach Jake De Vries<\/a> 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.
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\nThe 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\u00a0in the class of 2025.
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\nThe 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.
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\nAbout UC San Diego Athletics
\nAfter two decades as one of the most successful\u00a0programs in\u00a0NCAA Division II, the UC San Diego intercollegiate athletics program has begun a new era as\u00a0a\u00a0member\u00a0of The Big West in\u00a0NCAA Division I. The 24-sport Tritons earned 30 team and nearly 150 individual national championships during its time in\u00a0Divisions\u00a0II\u00a0and III and helped guide\u00a01,400 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.\u00a0For more information on the Tritons, visit\u00a0UCSDtritons.com<\/a>\u00a0or follow UC San Diego Athletics on social media\u00a0@UCSDtritons<\/a>.
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