{"id":103411,"date":"2018-06-03T21:21:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T02:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=103411"},"modified":"2018-06-03T21:21:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T02:21:00","slug":"megan-braun-wins-state-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/06\/03\/megan-braun-wins-state-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Megan Braun wins state title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>independent sports editor<\/em><\/p>\n<p>COLUMBUS &#8212; Megan Braun closed her high school athletic career by brining a state championship back to Van Wert.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_102868\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102868\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-102868\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/MeganBraun5-19-18.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"138\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-102868\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Megan Braun<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Braun edged Eastwood\u2019s Katelyn Meyer of Eastwood by a mere quarter of an inch (17-10.25 to 17-10.00) to win the Division II long jump state championship at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium in Columbus on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The recently graduated senior also placed fifth in the 400 meter dash (58.00) and was part of the 4&#215;400 meter relay team with Cassidy Meyers, Julia Springer and Caylee Phillips that finished seventh with a time of 4:04.67.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was just an amazing experience and I was blessed to be able to have the opportunity,\u201d Braun said. \u201cI also just enjoyed running with the girls in my relay for the last four years. They are not just my teammates but my family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Van Wert\u2019s Tabatha Saam placed 15th in the shot put with a throw of 35-11.25.<\/p>\n<p>As a team, the Lady Cougars finished 15th out of 75 teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent sports editor COLUMBUS &#8212; Megan Braun closed her high school athletic career by brining a state championship back to Van Wert. Braun edged Eastwood\u2019s Katelyn Meyer of Eastwood by a mere quarter of an inch (17-10.25 to 17-10.00) to win the Division II long jump state championship at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 23:36:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}