Events
Parker Canyon
September
Our first event of the year is our annual training trip to Parker Canyon! We will practice open water swimming and transitions before our first race of the year and do some intra-squad races.
Castle Creek
Oct 5
The first race of the year is the sprint at Lake Pleasant near Phoenix on October 7. A short and sweet sprint race (750 yard swim, 12 mile bike, 3.1 mile run) perfect for beginners or those looking to kickstart the season!
Pumpkinman
Oct 26
Arguably one of our favorite races of the year, Pumpkinman takes us up to Lake Mead near Las Vegas. After the race we’ll hangout in the area to celebrate our efforts on the hardest course on our calendar.
Ironman Arizona
Nov 17
One of our most fun volunteering events! We work the bike special needs station and hand out supplies to people during this epic race. We’ll see people halfway through the bike on their 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike and 26.2 mile run journey. We always have a few tricats racing that we get to cheer on!
Winter Training Camp
Jan 6-13
Winter Training Camp is back and better than ever! We will have teams from all over the conference come to Tucson to train with us on our home roads. Meet new friends that you’ll see and compete with throughout the season! We’ll do some practice racing, training sessions, group
Tritonman
Feb 8-9
The first race of the spring semester! We head to sunny San Diego to race a draft-legal sprint and a non-draft sprint over the course of the weekend.
Conference Championships
March 15
The cats head to Lake Havasu for the Mountain Collegiate Conference Champs race. This is the qualifier race for the national championships and contested over the olympic distance (.9 mile swim, 24.8 mile bike, 6.2 mile run).
National Championships
March 28-29 Miami, FL
The highlight of our year! Every spring the best collegiate triathletes in the country meet for one of the toughest races in the world. We have a storied history with several individual champions recently in Rollie Grinder (Draft-Legal Sprint, 2023), Erica Clevenger (Olympic, 2016) and Ben Kanute (DL-Sprint and Olympic, 2013).