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Park Racing To Meet Bowman's Lofty Expectations

By Craig Morgan, thesundevils.com Writer

TEMPE, Ariz. -- Patrick Park got an early lesson in heightened expectations from first-year Sun Devils swimming coach Bob Bowman.

One day in practice, Bowman asked Park, who swims the freestyle and butterfly, to try his hand at the 50 backstroke in practice. Park impressed himself by swimming a 31.2-second time.

"I was like 'wow that's good!'" Park said, laughing. "'I'm on a roll!'"

Not according to Bowman.

"After that, I was going back to the wall nice and easy. I'm the last one to the wall and when I got to the wall, he's like, 'Get out of the pool!