Following after a fellow teammate breaking a DII NCAA record would be tough for most people, luckily for Queens University it just fuels the fire for Matthew Josa. Not wanting to be outdone by Patricia Castro Ortega‘s record set in the women’s IM Josa kept the momentum going the Royals way blowing away the field touching at 1:41.94. His time from the preliminaries (1:43.18) would have ranked Josa 11th for the NCAA DI Championships held in a couple weeks. With his time tonight Josa would be one-hundredth behind Big 10 Champion Dylan Bosch and rank fifth in the Individual Medley for NCAA’s.
Comparative Splits
- Josa, 2014- 21.67/25.70/30.58/26.01= 1:43.96
- Josa, 2015- 21.87/25.92/29.43/25.96= 1:43.18
- Josa, 2015- 22.11/24.92/29.84/25.07= 1:41.94
2014-15 SCY Men 200 IM TYR World Ranking
NOLAN
1.39.38
| 2 | Will LICON | USA | 1.40.09 | 03/26 |
| 3 | Ryan MURPHY | USA | 1.41.76 | 03/26 |
| 4 | Josh PRENOT | USA | 1.41.79 | 03/05 |
| 5 | Dylan BOSCH | RSA | 1.41.93 | 02/26 |
Josa, a little big more relaxed on his signature fly leg than he has been in other record setting swims touching at 22.11. His backstroke leg is where the sophomore really separated himself from not only the field but his previous races at these championships. It is worth noting that he came home in 25.07, giving us a pretty good idea of where he is aerobically this weekend. Expect for the his 200 freestyle and 200 backstroke records to be on notice as the weekend continues.
We will not have the opportunity for more Josa magic as the Queens 200 medley relay was disqualified this morning from what we’re being told was a “relay card infraction”. There is a possibility for a 200 freestyle relay, 100 butterfly, and 400 medley relay triple tomorrow for the Queens star.
Let me ask this question: can Josa swim in the D1 NCAA championships even though he is a D2 swimmer?
joeMomma – no.
When there were only two NCAA Divisions.University & College [Div II-III now], the College Division Champion was permitted to swim in the University Division event, but that ended in the early ’70s.
It actually went into the late 80’s. Jim Born from Kenyon swam at DI’s in 1986.
Thanks guys. Too bad it isn’t permitted today. Would be interesting to see if he could hold his taper long enough to take on the guys from the bigger schools.
Where was Piotr Jachowicz? Scratch?
Looks like he swam on the relay… maybe he is just being a breaststroker this year.
Impressive swim against competition that was significantly far behind for a NCAA championship of any level. I wonder if he will transfer somewhere big in D1- although at the same time, what they are doing at Queens is obviously working for him. I think I remember reading on here when he committed it had something to do with the Queens coaches collaborating with his old club coaches at SwimMAC
Two questions:
What is a “relay card infraction”? Does that mean the coach submitted an improper relay card? If so, that’s a very unfortunate way to deny swimmers a race…
Also, you mention that Josa’s 200 free and 200 back records should be on watch, then say that he could win both the 200 free and 100 fly tomorrow. Can swimmers swim more than 3 individual events at DII NCAAs? Or are you implying that someone else has a shot at breaking the 2 back record?
Not Swimswam but I can answer. Relay card infraction means writing down the wrong name – sounds like they put down Josa’s name for a prelims relay he wasn’t on.
Regarding the records, he set the 200 free record last year leading off the 800 free relay. That is probably the case again this year, with the 100 fly individually.
Still sucks that they couldn’t swim because someone wrote down a wrong name. And that makes sense about the records. I forgot about the 8 free relay!
Thanks!
ever consider that it was the swimmers themselves who pulled the switcheroo?
maybe josa, didnt want to swim the relay and wanted to rest, so he had his buddy swim it for him, thinking no one would notice.
I’m not saying this is what happened, but still a possibility.
Doubt there’s a ton of chance of that.
1) Evante Gibson is Bahamanian. Josa is… not. That’s a pretty obvious difference.
2) Gibson had to swim the relay at some point since that’s how he qualified for the meet.
Seems to me like most likely explanation is it was just a brain fart.
In DII, you are allowed to compete in 4 individual races. Josa will most likely do the 100 fly and 200 back, then pick another event they feel makes the most sense in his lineup and will get the most points.
Possibly the 200 fly or 100 back on Friday.
He did 3 individuals/4 relays last year. I don’t know if this relay goof changes the strategy, but regardless it does burn a splash for him. So if he does go 4 individual, he can only do 2 other relays for them.
Why would you assume that training is “better” at a bigger time school? Maybe he’s getting the exact training he needs to where he’s at? There’s a lot of good coaching going on at “lower” levels.
And in this situation, let’s be honest, Queens has an affiliation with Team Elite, and Josa isn’t the only one involved both ways
Relax, I didn’t mean anything like that. All I was thinking about is the fact he could challenge guys like Licon over the next 2 years in the 200 IM and guys like Conger/Schooling in the 100 fly and they obviously aren’t present in D2. No problems with D2 or Queens and I didn’t say anything remotely close to that