By Sean Griffin on SwimSwam
Arizona State vs. UCLA (Women)
November 8, 2025 Mona Plummer Aquatic Center, Tempe, Arizona Short Course Yards (25 yards) Results Team Scores #Arizona State 150 – UCLA 150In a battle between two women’s teams on an upswing, Arizona State and UCLA ended their Friday dual meet in a 150-150 draw.
The teams didn’t face off last season, but in 2023, the Sun Devils beat the Bruins 175-125, making Friday’s tie a positive stride forward for UCLA.
This is the best the Bruin women have looked in years: they won 12 of 16 events with both established stars and newcomers setting personal records in a variety of events.
The story for Arizona State was their depth chart: despite winning just four events, they were consistently grabbing second and third place in the individual events to force the split.
Action kicked off with the 400 medley relay, where UCLA’s quartet of Rosie Murphy (52.50), Sarah Bennetts (1:00.00), Jada Duncan (51.22), and Anna Wetteland (49.46) out-touched ASU’s squad of Miriam Sheehan (51.83), Lucie Vasquez (1:01.06), Julia Ullmann (50.84), and Indigo Armon (49.57) by 0.13, finishing with a final time of 3:33.18.
Murphy’s lead-off split of 52.50 represented a new lifetime best, eclipsing the 52.76 she swam at the Michigan vs. Northwestern, UCLA meet on October 25. Sheehan, a junior, was in the same boat, as her 51.83 slid under her January 2023 pre-college best time of 51.99.
Notably, UCLA sophomore Claudia Yovanovich had the quickest backstroke leg of the entire field, posting a 52.25 on UCLA’s B relay that finished fourth, taking down the 52.87 she recorded at the same October 25 meet.
In the individual 100 back, Yovanovich (52.24) touched the wall ahead of Murphy (52.46), with Sheehan settling for third at 53.31, with the Bruin duo resetting their career bests once again.
Murphy secured an individual win of her own in the 200 back, leading from start to finish to win with a new school record time of 1:52.39, breaking the 1:53.13 she clocked at the Pac-12 Championships in March 2024. ASU teammates Gerda Szilagyi (1:54.71) and Payden Rafferty (1:57.72) rounded out the top three.
Szilagyi, a senior, shattered her 1:56.26 personal best from last month’s ASU vs. UNLV meet. Rafferty, a sophomore, was slightly off her season (1:56.65) and career (1:55.86) bests.
Murphy capped off her schedule with a decisive 200 IM victory; she checked in with the only sub-2:00 time of 1:56.11, while Sun Devil teammates Jordan Greber (2:00.04) and Ginger McMahon (2:00.20) followed just under four seconds back. Murphy’s time was just shy of her February 2024 PB of 1:55.93, while Greber’s was a season best and McMahon took down the 2:01.48 she produced less than two weeks ago.
Duncan, a freshman, went on to win three individual events: the 50 free (22.02), 100 free (48.72), and 100 fly (52.06).
Her time in the 50 undercut her 22.14 best time from the Winter Junior Championships last December, while her time in the 100 fly slid under the 52.09 she swam at the CIF State meet in May. She missed out on resetting her best time in the 100 free by just a hundredth.
She was utterly dominant in the freestyle races, winning by 0.69 over ASU teammates Ullmann (22.71) and Shane Golland (22.74) in the 50, and by 0.85 over Greber (49.57) and Golland (49.84) in the 100 free.
The 100 fly was the closest battle of the three, where she faced tough competition from Ullmann, who stopped the clock second in 52.30, with Sheehan notching 52.72 for third place. Duncan split a conservative 25.43 on the opening 50, which trailed Ullmann by almost a full second, as she opened in 24.64 with Sheehan sandwiched in between at 25.06. Duncan blasted home in 26.63 over the final 50 yards to Ullmann’s 27.66 and Sheehan’s 27.66 to seal the win.
Senior Sarah Bennetts was the Bruins’ other multi-event individual winner on the day, sweeping both breaststroke events with times of 59.97 and 2:11.15.
The 100 was a battle with McMahon (1:00.07), who opened in a slightly quicker 28.46 to Bennetts’ 28.55 before Bennetts was able to overtake her over the final three strokes to secure the win.
Bennetts’ time was a major milestone as it marked the first time she has cracked the elusive minute barrier; her former best time was set at this same meet two years ago when she logged 1:00.09. McMahon, a senior, destroyed her prior best time of 1:00.66 from the Eddie Reese Texas Showdown last January.
Zoe Summar rounded out the top three in 1:01.56, a few tenths under her season-best 1:01.85 from early October. The senior’s personal best remains the 1:00.29 she produced at the 2023 NC State/GAC Invitational.
Bennetts continued her form in the 200 breast, stopping the clock at 2:11.15 to take the win over Sun Devils Sonia Vaishnani (2:11.88) and McMahon (2:12.36).
It was another personal best for Bennetts, who beat the 2:11.36 she swam at the March 2024 Pac-12 Championships. Vaishnani, a junior, destroyed her 2:12.85 from two weeks ago at the Stanford vs. Arizona State, California meet, while McMahon outswam her 2:13.40 prior best from the Eddie Reese Texas Showdown last January.
UCLA’s final event win came in the 200 free relay, as Bennetts (23.09), Wetteland (22.38), Yovanovich (22.17), and Alexis Schaffer (22.41) topped ASU’s Sheehan (22.85), Ullmann (22.42), Golland (22.64), and Armon (22.58) by 0.44 seconds. The Bruins took the lead at 60-yards and never let off the gas, touching in 1:30.05 to ASU’s 1:30.49. Both teams were a few tenths off their season bests from last month.
Though UCLA captured the majority of event titles, Arizona State made their four wins count in the distance races.The 1000 free was fairly clear-cut, with Sun Devil Alexa Reyna winning by just over nine seconds. UCLA’s Applejean Gwinn (9:59.68) took second and ASU’s Lia Csulak (10:01.51) hit the wall third. The times from Gwinn and Csulak were season bests, while Reyna was well off the 9:39.24 she swam last month.
Vaishnani (1:57.50) and Deniz Ertan (1:58.81) put together a 1-2 punch in the 200 fly, with UCLA’s Ashley Kolessar (2:00.04) settling for third just over the two-minute barrier. Vaishnani missed her 1:57.40 personal best from two weeks ago by just a tenth, while Ertan undercut her season-best 1:59.83; her best remains the 1:54.92 she swam at the 2025 Big 12 Championships. Kolessar, a senior, shattered her former season best by over two seconds; her best is 1:56.22 from the March 2022 NCSA Spring Championships.
Ertan went on to take a win of her own in the 500 free, stopping the clock at a season-best 4:45.77 to defeat Reyna by just over two seconds, with junior teammate Grace Lindberg (4:50.00) making it a 1-2-3 sweep for Arizona State.
Greber was the final Sun Devil event winner, leading the 200 free field with a time of 1:45.94 to walk away with the win ahead of Lindberg (1:46.87), with UCLA redshirt junior Katrina Bellio (1:48.74) a ways back in third.
The Sun Devil’s time was her first-ever venture under 1:46, taking down her former career best of 1:46.10 from last month’s All Arizona D1 Invitational. Lindberg missed her best time from last season by just 0.02, while Bellio has been as quick as 1:47.47 back in 2022.
Diving
On the diving boards, UCLA senior Eden Cheng won both the 1-meter and 3-meter competitions. The senior earned the top spot in the 3-meter competition with a score of 307.43, sweeping the event with teammates Molly Brascia (293.33) and Laura Fisher (255.30) in second and third. In the 1-meter, Cheng took the top spot with 264.90 points, while ASU’s Kayden Hayes (254.33) finished second and Brascia (247.20) took third.
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