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LA JOLLA, Calif. \u2014 The Big West announced Tuesday the conference’s latest Track and Field Athletes of the Week, including UC San Diego’s Miles Bennett<\/a> as the Men’s Field Athlete of the Week. The weekly honor is voted on by the league’s head coaches.
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\nBennett won the men’s high jump event on Saturday at UCLA’s Jim Bush Legends Meet. He was the only competitor to clear 2.16m, doing so on his third attempt. That new personal best sees Bennett now second all-time at UC San Diego in high jump. It is also the top mark in The Best West this season and fifth-best nationally.
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\nA native of Castro Valley, Calif., Bennett is a graduate student studying structural engineering. He has spent his entire collegiate career at UC San Diego, earning his bachelor’s degree in the same field last summer. Bennett is also the program record holder in indoor high jump, recording a mark of 2.10m.
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\nThe Tritons have now won three Big West Athlete of the Week awards this season. On March 17, Allyson Abandonato<\/a> was named Women’s Track Athlete of the Week and Feyi Olukanni<\/a> was named Women’s Field Athlete of the Week.
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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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