This post was updated Nov. 12 at 11:28 p.m.

Saturday’s Bruin versus Wildcat final score stands out among a history book full of tight dual meets decided by fewer than 15 points.

No. 22 UCLA swim and dive (1-0) took down Arizona (1-2) by a score of 189-106 – the largest margin of victory between the duo since at least 1998 and 27 dual meets. The Bruins won all but one swim race as they celebrated 13 graduating student-athletes for Senior Day.

“This senior class has done a lot of heavy lifting for a long time, but today especially,” said coach Jordan Cordry. “Having them feeling the love and being celebrated, and us really utilizing them really helped us today.”

Following a late start due to an officiating delay, the dual meet kicked off with UCLA’s A-team winning the 400-yard medley relay. Graduate student Emma Harvey recorded the fastest butterfly leg of any team with a 51:23 tally, putting the Bruins up by more than two seconds heading into the final 100 yards.

Energy ratcheted up during the 1000-yard freestyle, despite it being the longest race on the program.

Junior Beril Bocekler got out to an early lead of multiple body lengths. As the final few laps approached, Wildcat Ava Sutphin began making a charge, passing Bocekler by the 950-yard split. But Bocekler pulled out the win, going 0.62 seconds faster than Sutphin in the final split.

“That was awesome,” Cordry said. “Beril has been working really hard this season. That race was really important to her, and for her to do that for her teammates – the hard way, the tough way – that was huge. And I think you saw that have a big energy impact on our team.”

Senior Ana Jih-Schiff called it one of the best distance races she’s ever seen.

“Those are the moments I’ll never forget,” said senior Joanie Cash. “I’ve never celebrated after my race where I literally was jumping up and down, slapping the water. Watching Beryl finish that race – I was so happy for her.”

UCLA’s only race loss came in the 500-yard freestyle, where junior Ashley Kolessar finished second. Arizona’s Malia Rausch won the event, recording a 4:47.37 mark to take home the Wildcats’ only victory on the swimming side.

Three divers – junior Eden Cheng, sophomore Laura Fisher and senior Maya Salvitti – recorded Zone E qualifying standards in the platform dive, which was competed separately from the dual meet.

Jih-Schiff won every race she competed in, ending the Senior Day meet with a bang in the 200-yard freestyle relay where her 21.81-anchor leg was the fastest of the race by 0.42 seconds.

“I genuinely was so shocked, but it was so exciting,” Jih-Schiff said. “I’m just so proud to be a Bruin, and just so proud that I can inspire other people.”

Jih-Schiff also recorded wins in 100-yard breaststroke, 50-yard freestyle and 200-yard breaststroke. Her 59.47 time in the 100-yard breaststroke was just 0.1 seconds off the UCLA school record.

Cash, on the other hand, said she was not shocked by Jih-Schiff’s time.

With just one event separating the 100-yard breaststroke and 50-yard freestyle, Jih-Schiff had fewer than five minutes to prepare in between the races where she picked up two personal best times.

“For her to put those things together, that was a decision she had to make about being tough and doing what the team needed her to do,” Cordry said. “Her being able to rely on this is my job, for my team. This isn’t a me thing, this is a team thing. That carried her through and that was evident across today.”

The Bruins’ 2025 schedule is unique – Saturday’s competition was the only home dual meet of the year, which made for a relatively early Senior Day.

“The excitement and the love that was shown on this day is just the best part,” Cash said. “Having all our teammates knowing that this is our last time at Spieker and that we’re leaving the team in such good hands, I think it’s just a representation of (how) we’re a group of talented, hard workers, but the thing that really is so impactful of what we do is just our love for each other, and that shines through everything we do.”