University of Denver Women's Triathlon

Barbara Perkins is entering her sixth season as the University of Denver's first women's triathlon head coach in fall 2025. She was named to the position on July 1, 2020. Perkins has guided the Pioneers to top-five finishes at each of the four Collegiate National Championships. In 2023, Denver placed fourth as a squad (lost third-place tiebreaker) while freshman Maira Carreau won the program's first-ever individual national title and 128th such championship in Denver Athletics history. Carreau repeated as a first-team All-American in 2024 as the team rallied after the swim portion to finish fifth at the collegiate nationals. In her five years at the helm of the program, Perkins has coached student-athletes to 26 individual podium finishes, 11 All-American awards and 28 Academic All-American honors. As a program, the Pioneers have won the team event in a triathlon four times.

Jacob Wolf is in his first season as an assistant coach on the University of Denver women's triathlon team after being named to the position on Sept. 24, 2025. In this role, he works on head coach Barbara Perkins' staff in assisting with all training and operational needs of the program. Wolf comes to Denver after spending four years as an athlete on the University of California San Diego club triathlon team from 2021 to 2025, where he served as a team captain during the 2022-23 season and team president in 2024-25. He also led the annual Tritonman Triathlon as race director in 2024 after being an assistant to the race director in 2023. In those roles, he worked closely with USA Triathlon and the City of San Diego to put on a safe and fair event while also organizing more than 80 volunteers in what is one of the top season-opening triathlons in the country. The Milwaukie, Oregon, native competed at the USA Triathlon Collegiate Club National Championships in each of his four years at UC