Arizona State Meet 3/27-29 2009

**Paul Smith** · March 30th, 2009, 11:52 AM

Great meet with lots of very fast swimming...nice to have Rob Butcher in attendence and take down all the youngsters in the 50/200 breast! Also, Norika Inada and Kohei Kawamato each took down some very impressive records.

W30-34 Short Course Yards Records
50 Back Angel Martino 04-15-00 25.73
100 Back K Pipes-Neilsen 05-04-96 57.13
* Nori was 24+ & 54+

M25-29 Short Course Yards Records
50 Fly Sabir Muhammad 03-25-04 21.15
100 Fly Matthew T Marshall 04-13-08 48.36
* Kohei was 20.9 & 47.1

Neither was rested, Kohei wore the LZR leggings, Nori wore and old FSII (she also borke the 200 back record by Karlyn of 1:59 with a 1:57 at a kids meet that wasn't USMS sanctioned where she also went 53.3 in the 100 back).

**pwb** · March 30th, 2009, 01:54 PM

(Very biased response)

Meet was very well run (kudos to Mark Rankin and the BEST Masters' crew)
Weather was beautiful
Facility was wonderful
- Deep, cool water
- Loads of deck/lounging space
- Loads of warm-up/warm-down lanes (something like 15 lanes)
Timing relative to SCY nationals and to big "Nov/Dec SCM meets was great whether you chose to taper or not (I did)

Anyone looking for a great meet in 2010, you should consider this. Even if it's not at BEST again, it'll probably be at equally great facilities like ASU or U of A.