The University of Missouri-St. Louis Athletics department had a lot to celebrate during the 2025-26 season. The department had its best finish in the Learfield Directors' Cup standings, won multiple conference championships and its academic excellence all made the previous year a memorable one for the Tritons. Below are some of the highlights from a fantastic year.
- UMSL earned a 37th place finish in the final 2025-26 Directors' Cup standings, good for the University's highest finish with 440.5 points.
- UMSL won five Great Lakes Valley Conference championships with three teams earning their first ever conference championships. Four other teams won conference regular season/division titles.
- Volleyball (regular season and tournament)
- Women's Golf
- Men's Golf
- Women's Tennis (regular season division title and tournament)
- Baseball
- Women's Soccer (regular season)
- Women's Basketball (regular season)
- The Tritons had 42 individuals earn All-GLVC honors, eight claimed GLVC major awards and had seven GLVC Coaches of the Year.
- Twenty-one UMSL student-athletes combined for 38 GLVC Player of the Week awards.
- The Tritons have currently racked up a school record six Academic All-America nods in 2025-26 and had four GLVC Scholar-Athletes of the Year which is also the most in a single in a year in school history.
- Women's swimmer Justice Beard became the second student-athlete and first female to win an individual national championship winning the 500, 1,000 and 1650-yard freestyle races to help women's swimming finish 15th at the NCAA Championships for its best finish.
- UMSL had a school record 17 student-athletes earn All-America honors.
- The Tritons success in the NCAA postseason included a regional title and national quarterfinal appearance by women's soccer, a national semifinal run by men's golf and a national quarterfinal appearance by women's golf.
- The Tritons continue to lead in the classroom as well, garnering 174 Academic All-GLVC honors while compiling an impressive combined cumulative GPA of 3.572 for the year and had all 15 teams with a GPA of 3.24 or higher for the first time ever.
- UMSL had 34 individuals rewarded for their career academic excellence as they were recognized with the GLVC's Council of Presidents' Academic Excellence Award and had 27 individuals honored with the Brother James Gaffney Distinguished Scholar Award for having a 4.0 GPA for the school year.