Teffra DFL in his heat of the 1500m and Matsatsa scratches in the 800
Tinoda Matsatsa DNS - What happened to Georgetown?
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Curse of The Athlete Special.
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dang never even knew that the matsatsa scratched. was one of my favourites and would have loved to see him go far this year.
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gtownfan wrote:
Teffra DFL in his heat of the 1500m and Matsatsa scratches in the 800
They were both shown in a workout video from last Friday I believe. Wonder if they both caught a bug?
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Very late stratch in the 800 prelims, didn’t hear what happened
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I was surprised to see Georgetown's Tinoda Matsatsa DNS the 800 today at NCAAs as he was an Olympic Trials finalist last year as a 19-year-old true freshman.
I asked Georgetown coach Brandon Bonsey for what happened:
He said Matsatsa strained his quad Friday at practice and that it was clear when he did strides yesterday that he wasn't ready.
"I don't think it's a major injury," Bonsey wrote in a text message. "It's just really poor timing. We are both really disappointed but I have to look out for the long term of his career. I wasn't willing to put him out there when he wasn't healthy."
A bad break but Matsatsa's future remains very bright. Bonsey thinks he will be fine to run USAs at the end of July.
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Amongus
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Thanks for the update, Jon. His heat had 3 guys run 1:45.32 or faster so would’ve been wild had he been in it.
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He overslept. Time trial tomorrow which may count for his qualification if it’s fast enough.
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Jonathan Gault wrote:
He said Matsatsa strained his quad Friday at practice
. "It's just really poor timing.
Really poor timing? He strained his quad in practice. To me, it’s clear this is on the coach.
Quite frankly, I’m not surprised to see the Georgetown guys underperform late or get injured. This has been happening for over a decade. They rip time trials indoors but often by the time conference rolled around indoors, they were on the downslope. Rebuild for outdoors then do it all over again.1120 -
Gtown H8er wrote:
Jonathan Gault wrote:
He said Matsatsa strained his quad Friday at practice
. "It's just really poor timing.
Really poor timing? He strained his quad in practice. To me, it’s clear this is on the coach.
Quite frankly, I’m not surprised to see the Georgetown guys underperform late or get injured. This has been happening for over a decade. They rip time trials indoors but often by the time conference rolled around indoors, they were on the downslope. Rebuild for outdoors then do it all over again.This would appear to be the workout in question. Basically 3x200 in 25 then 2x120 with switch of gear
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Here is your answer
https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=13577796&page=8#post-166
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At the end of the day if it’s coach fault and bad timing, at least he didn’t ran the athlete and somehow that’s good and means he really cares (kind off lol)Y’all know a lot of coaches out there would’ve ran the athlete and that is a fact.
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Sleepy boy wrote:
He overslept. Time trial tomorrow which may count for his qualification if it’s fast enough.
What if he oversleeps again?
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Jonathan Gault wrote:
I was surprised to see Georgetown's Tinoda Matsatsa DNS the 800 today at NCAAs as he was an Olympic Trials finalist last year as a 19-year-old true freshman.
I asked Georgetown coach Brandon Bonsey for what happened:
He said Matsatsa strained his quad Friday at practice and that it was clear when he did strides yesterday that he wasn't ready.
"I don't think it's a major injury," Bonsey wrote in a text message. "It's just really poor timing. We are both really disappointed but I have to look out for the long term of his career. I wasn't willing to put him out there when he wasn't healthy."
A bad break but Matsatsa's future remains very bright. Bonsey thinks he will be fine to run USAs at the end of July.
I love how these coaches act like martyrs when their athletes get injured right before a big meet. I know nothing about this particular situation, and injuries do happen, but it seems like when stuff like this happens, the coach loves to play victim, and pretend he's protecting the runner.
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Besides Tinoda, 3/5 of Georgetown's top cross country runners ended their seasons with injury.
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Gtown H8er wrote:
Jonathan Gault wrote:
He said Matsatsa strained his quad Friday at practice
. "It's just really poor timing.
Really poor timing? He strained his quad in practice. To me, it’s clear this is on the coach.
Quite frankly, I’m not surprised toD see the Georgetown guys underperform late or get injured. This has been happening for over a decade. They rip time trials indoors but often by the time conference rolled around indoors, they were on the downslope. Rebuild for outdoors then do it all over again.I actually couldn't disagree with this post more. Outside of Abel and Tinoda, georgetown had a pretty poor January — early April this year as a whole. A lot of guys really did well during outdoors. Medeiros, Dunne, Harriman to name a few.
A year ago I would have agreed when it had just been Stokes performing at NCAAs year after year.20 -
They got hurt making a Tik Tok:
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