This post was updated Nov. 9 at 2:41 p.m.

Rivalries can linger well after the conflict’s heyday.

This is especially true in light of recent collegiate conference shake-ups.

And the Bruins will face a familiar and former conference adversary.

No. 23 UCLA women’s swim and dive is heading to Tempe, Arizona, to face former Pac-12 rival No. 18 Arizona State in its third meet of the 2025 season.

All of the Bruins’ meets have been on the road thus far, and they will not make their home debut until the Riverside Diving Invite in December.

Although the first of the away matchups was at their crosstown rival Trojans’ aquatic center, the Bruins traveled to Ann Arbor, Michigan, for their second meet.

And the squad will hit the road again for its upcoming competition against the Sun Devils.

Following the meet against Michigan, however, coach Jordan Cordry said UCLA was well equipped for dealing with the longer travel distances that come with competing in the Big Ten.

“We felt prepared for it, and so … it was incredibly smooth, and it was really easy,” Cordry said.

Therefore, the short distance and small time change between California and Arizona may not pose a big threat to UCLA’s abilities and performance at the Arizona State meet.

The last time the Bruins faced the Sun Devils in a head-to-head meet competition was during the 2023 season, when the Sun Devils edged out the Bruins in a 175-125 affair. UCLA heads into the 2025 competition in what appears to be a competitive match-up between the two ranked squads.

But both UCLA and Arizona State have struggled against ranked opponents thus far. For instance, Arizona State faced off against then-No. 3 Stanford and then-No. 5 California on Oct. 25, losing each contest with point deficits that eclipsed 100. The Bruins boast a similar pattern. Despite beating Northwestern in Ann Arbor Oct. 25, UCLA lost to then-No. 10 Michigan during that same competition.

UCLA also struggled against ranked opponents – then-No. 9 USC, then-No. 12 Indiana and then-No. 25 Texas A&M – at their first invitational of the 2025-2026 campaign. The Bruins only took first place in one event, via junior Sarah Bennetts’ 100-breast performance. The team reached the podium in other events, such as the 200 IM and 400 IM, but fell one spot shy of first in both.

The Bruins seem to be improving, however, given their most recent finishes in Ann Arbor. Cordry’s squad team swept the 100-backstroke podium and captured podium finishes in multiple other events.

Cordry said UCLA will continue to embrace the same preparation approach for upcoming competitions.

“Nothing new, nothing different,” Cordry said. “It’s still October, which is the time you get a lot of work done. So, we’ve got one full week without any needs, without any travel this week – and so, the focus is just on getting some work done.”