{"id":609070,"date":"2025-04-04T04:35:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T11:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=609070"},"modified":"2025-04-04T04:35:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T11:35:06","slug":"second-stellar-ncaas-backs-jonny-marshalls-great-britain-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/second-stellar-ncaas-backs-jonny-marshalls-great-britain-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Stellar NCAAs Backs Jonny Marshall\u2019s Great Britain Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Second Stellar NCAAs Backs Jonny Marshall\u2019s Great Britain Decision<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jonny Marshall<\/strong> was only 17, but he had a consequential decision to make. In retrospect, it doesn\u2019t seem that difficult of a choice.<\/p>\n<p>Marshall was then a promising swimmer at Ohio\u2019s Firestone High School. The Akron native was perhaps not a surefire international, but he was a prized Division I recruit. And he was in demand by two prominent national-team programs.<\/p>\n<p>It was 2022, and Marshall had opted to swim British Trials in the spring of his senior year of high school. He did well enough to garner an invite to the European Junior Championships for Great Britain. Without a trials swim, the U.S. left a spot for him to compete under its flag at the Mel Zajac International.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/meet\/2025-ncaa-division-i-mens-championships\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NCAA Division I Men\u2019s Championships Meet Page<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/swimmeetresults.tech\/NCAA-Division-I-Men-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Live Results<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In deciding between the country of his birth and the country of his mom\u2019s upbringing, the decision ultimately wasn\u2019t hard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it was a thing of pride for me and something just to make my family proud,\u201d Marshall said at the NCAA Championships in Federal Way, Washington. \u201cI made that decision very young. \u2026 For me, it was easy. I wanted to represent a team that my family had already represented. And I&#8217;m very blessed to have that opportunity, and to be able to go to the Olympics at 19 was an added benefit of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_609009\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-609009\" data-attachment-id=\"609009\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/second-stellar-ncaas-backs-jonny-marshalls-great-britain-decision\/jonny-marshall-14\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/jonny-marshall-2025-Mens-NCAA-SD-2294.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1000,750\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Peter H. Bick&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;OM-1MarkII&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;jonny-marshall-&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1743268359&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9Peter H. 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Bick&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/jonny-marshall-2025-Mens-NCAA-SD-2294-700x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/jonny-marshall-2025-Mens-NCAA-SD-2294.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-609009\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/jonny-marshall-2025-Mens-NCAA-SD-2294.jpg\" alt=\"Jonny Marshall\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/jonny-marshall-2025-Mens-NCAA-SD-2294.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/jonny-marshall-2025-Mens-NCAA-SD-2294-267x200.jpg 267w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/jonny-marshall-2025-Mens-NCAA-SD-2294-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/jonny-marshall-2025-Mens-NCAA-SD-2294-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/jonny-marshall-2025-Mens-NCAA-SD-2294-533x400.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-609009\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jonny Marshall; Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The family\u2019s swimming legacy is how Marshall literally came to be in Ohio. His mother, <strong>Louise Gowens,<\/strong> hails from Southend-on-Sea <a href=\"https:\/\/www.echo-news.co.uk\/sport\/1676401.farewell-to-southends-mr-and-mrs-swimming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in Essex<\/a>. She swam internationally for Britain, making a European Championships. She chose the American college route, ending up at the University of Cincinnati, where she met and married a fellow swimmer, <strong>Steve Marshall.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hence Jonny Marshall, the English Olympian from that exotic former colonial outpost of Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was kind of something I inherited,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>All of that might\u2019ve been relegated to a footnote and a point of personal pride had Marshall not continued to steadily improve at every turn. He went with Britain in 2022 to Euro Juniors in Otopeni, Romania, and won silver in the 50 back (behind <strong>Ksawery Masiuk<\/strong> of Poland), bronze in the 100 back (behind Masiuk and Ukraine\u2019s <strong>Oleksandr Zheltyakov<\/strong>) plus men\u2019s medley relay gold and mixed medley relay silver.<\/p>\n<p>After an excellent debut season at Florida that included the backstroke double at SECs, he found his way <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconjournal.com\/story\/sports\/olympics\/2024\/07\/26\/jonny-marshall-olympics-swimming-great-britain-paris-2024-backstroke-akron-firestone-florida-gators\/74517475007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">onto the Great Britain Olympic team<\/a>, finishing 14th in the 100 back with a best time of 53.46 in Paris. While the U.S. is deep in that stroke in particular on the men\u2019s side, he\u2019d be a handy option, his Paris time good for fifth at Olympics Trials.<\/p>\n<p>The Olympic experience was special for Marshall, with his parents and grandparents \u2013 the Gowens still call Essex home \u2013 in attendance, to go with plenty of friends back home in America.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was definitely the most pressure I&#8217;d ever felt,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s SECs times 10, all the eyes that are invested in me. After I got through the prelim, I just kind of let it all go and said, this is kind of a celebration of my swimming career. That&#8217;s how I like to look at it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marshall readily cops to not being the most British of the lads. He spent last summer training at Loughborough University with <strong>Luke Greenbank<\/strong> and <strong>Adam Peaty<\/strong> under coach <strong>Mel Marshall<\/strong> (no relation, though Jonny counts her as a valuable advocate). He\u2019s planning to train with fellow Gator <strong>Alex Painter<\/strong> at Painter\u2019s alma mater, Millfield School, in Somerset next month ahead of British nationals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI definitely get a little bit of crap for being so American,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I wouldn&#8217;t say that I say, \u2018dude\u2019 and \u2018bro\u2019 as much over there. But it really is a really nice team, and I love all the guys on that team, so it is really a second home for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The first half of Marshall\u2019s college career has been excellent. He\u2019s 4-for-4 in SEC backstroke championships. He was eighth in the 100 back and fourth in the 200 back as a freshman at NCAAs.<\/p>\n<p>In his second go-round in Washington this week, he\u2019s replaced Adam Chaney as the Gators\u2019 go-to backstroker. He led off Florida\u2019s 200 medley relay in 20.59, that team looking like it had won gold before a disqualification. They atoned by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/ncaa-mens-championships-florida-crushes-400-medley-relay-field-by-three-seconds-nc-state-claims-american-record\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">routing the field in the 400 medley<\/a>, Marshall out in 43.87.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the Friday session, he went 43.22 to finish <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/ncaa-mens-championships-hubert-kos-surges-to-ncaa-record-in-100-backstroke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">second in the 100 backstroke<\/a>, behind only the NCAA record of 43.20 by <strong>Hubert Kos<\/strong> of Texas. Marshall\u2019s is listed as the American record, erasing Luca Urlando\u2019s 43.35, though that might not stand given his international representation. He finished fifth in the 200 back in 1:37.00.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was surreal to go a 43.22 and lose, but I was very happy,\u201d he said. \u201cI didn&#8217;t know I&#8217;d be so happy with getting second. Props to Hubert. That was an amazing swim and just a great race. The competitor in me is a little bit disappointed, but I think the swimmer in me is very proud.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second Stellar NCAAs Backs Jonny Marshall\u2019s Great Britain Decision Jonny Marshall was only 17, but he had a consequential decision to make. 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