let's be real: Arizona triathlon is running the table, and Sunday made it official again. The Wildcats won their third consecutive national championship, and they did it with Kelly Wetteland setting the tone at the front of the race. What else do you call a program that keeps stacking titles while the rest of the field is still trying to catch its breath?
Wetteland delivered the individual crown, too. The fifth-year senior closed out her collegiate career by winning the Women’s Collegiate National Championship for the second year in a row, finishing in 1:00.53. That is the kind of finish that turns a strong team into a dynasty, because when your leader wins the race and your depth keeps piling up behind her, how exactly are opponents supposed to close the gap?
Arizona’s scoring spread told the rest of the story. Amit Ben Adiva finished fourth, Molly Lakustiak took sixth, and Regina Michel Camacho placed seventh. Ellison Wolfe came in 11th, and Margareta Vrablova finished 12th to round out the Wildcats’ scorers. Four of the top 10 belonged to Arizona, and that kind of pack performance is how a championship gets sealed instead of merely chased.
The Wildcats finished with 935 points, ahead of runner-up ASU at 908 and third-place TCU at 860. The race itself came with a wrinkle, too, because unsafe water conditions at Tempe Town Lake meant there was no swimming portion. Even with that change, Arizona handled the day and kept the title in Tucson’s corner. Under head coach Wes Johnson, the women’s triathlon program has built a legacy fast, and the timeline says plenty: Arizona debuted triathlon in 2023, finished runner-up at nationals that year, and has since pulled away from ASU, which had won the previous seven national championships.
Three straight. One more trophy. Same result. That is the standard now, and Arizona has made it look routine.
