Auburn Triathletes is a club of students, faculty, and community who come together to train for, compete in, and promote the sport of triathlon on Auburn’s campus. A triathlon is composed of swimming, biking, and running combined into one race. The club was started in 1983 and was one of the first collegiate racing clubs in the country. The club has since been resurrected in 2007 by Kyle Joplin with 12 members, and in two short years we have grown to 38 members. Membership is composed of athletes from various athletic backgrounds, including swimming, cycling, running, tennis, marching band, being a couch potato, and other activities. This variety of backgrounds demonstrates that each and every person can be an active participant within the Auburn team. Each member can reach their own goals by training and racing with our team-whether their goal is to place first or to complete in their first triathlon! Through our athletic efforts we promote a healthy lifestyle among Auburn Triathletes and the Auburn University student body.

 

Members of Auburn University Triathlon Team train year-round to perform their best at races. Auburn Triathletes is a USAT sanctioned club, and each year our team competes in the Southeastern Collegiate Triathlon Conference (SECTC) at multiple sanctioned races across the southeast. This past 2008-2009 season, Auburn Triathletes are proud to have sent members to all seven sanctioned triathlons and our athletes have done great! Additionally, Auburn Triathletes competed in the Collegiate National Triathlon Championship in Lubbock, Texas.  The team members do not limit themselves to triathlons but branch out to participate in other endurance races such as duathlons (run, bike, run), marathons, ultra marathons, swim meets, local 5k and 10ks, and bike races.

 

Now we are looking ahead to the 2009-2010 season, where Auburn Triathletes will race at the Mountain Lakes Triathlon (Aug 8, 2009), the Callaway Gardens Triathlon (Sept 6, 2009), the Lake Lanier Islands Triathlon (Oct 4, 2009), the Hickory Knob International Triathlon (Oct 17, 2009), the Natchez Trace Triathlon (March 21, 2010), the  Memphis in May Triathlon (May 16, 2010), the West Point Lake Triathlon (June 12, 2010), and the Collegiate National Championships in Lubbock, Texas.

 

If you think this sounds like a team you would like to be a part of contact Auburn Triathletes at auburntriathletes at gmail dot com for more information. We are always looking for new members!