For the victors, the meet meant everything, a previously-downtrodden program knocking off the gold standard. For the losers, it was just another lump in a season full of them—with the hope that all the lumps are meaningless in the end.

Joseph Schooling was disgusted. In his signature event, the one in which he won Olympic gold one year earlier—the first-ever for Singapore in swimming—he was routed.

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First came the drawn-out chants of “ZO-NA! ZO-NA!” from the team clad in red and blue on the side of the pool. After barely a second of silence, a quick-paced “A-S-U! A-S-U!” cheer emanated from the young men and women in maroon and gold lined up along the upstairs railing inside the Hillenbrand Aquatic Center.

Imagine you just swam the race of your life—a best time by a full second, by far your best-ever finish at a national level meet. And then imagine that in a split-second, it was gone—your time erased from record, replaced by the letters “DQ.

For the first time in 25 years, the Arizona State women’s swimming and diving team has beaten the University of Arizona in a dual meet. In a Saturday afternoon matchup between the Sun Devils and Wildcats at Mona Plummer Aquatic Center, ASU earned big wins in both the women’s and men’s competition, but it was the women’s which was perhaps more notable.

Each of the past three years, Texas has dominated the men’s NCAA swimming championships—and on all three of those occasions, California has finished second. Going back even further, in the past eight seasons, Texas has four titles and three runner-up finishes, while Cal has won three times and been runner-up on the other five occasions.

Arizona State University continued their season of firsts with another big win this week, with the ASU women defeating the University of Arizona for the first time in 25 years. Swimming at home in Tempe, the women took the meet in a final score of 173-127 in the first matchup of the two teams since Augie Busch returned to Arizona as the head coach in July.

2015 was a breakout year for Grant House. He made the team to compete at the World Junior Championships in Singapore in the 4×200 free relay, where he anchored to win gold and set a new World Junior record.