{"id":139321,"date":"2021-01-19T23:44:16","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T04:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=139321"},"modified":"2021-01-19T23:44:20","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T04:44:20","slug":"vw-cougar-swimmers-face-bryan-bath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/01\/19\/vw-cougar-swimmers-face-bryan-bath\/","title":{"rendered":"VW Cougar swimmers face Bryan, Bath"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BRYAN &#8212; The Van Wert High School boys and girls swimming teams traveled to the Williams County YMCA to compete in a mini-invitational against the Bryan Golden Bears and the Bath Wildcats. The Cougar boys finished in second place while the girls finished third.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Swimmers placing first in individual events included Ian Rex, Gage Wannemacher, Jayden Welker, Octavius Tucker, Bryce Miler and Travis Francis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"545\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Wannemacher-Breaststroke-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-139323\"\/><figcaption>Van Wert&#8217;s Gage Wannemacher finishes the breaststroke leg of the 200-yard Medley Relay. <em>Photo submitted<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Boys Results (all distances in yards)<\/em><\/strong><br><strong>200 Medley Relay:<\/strong> 1st (1:51.81\u2013 Ian Rex, Gage Wannemacher, Jayden Welker, Octavius Tucker)<br><strong>200 Freestyle:<\/strong> 1st (2:07.71-Ian Rex), 3rd (2:22.68- Travis Francis)<br><strong>50 Freestyle:<\/strong> 4th (25.85\u2013 Travis Francis), 9th (32.68- Bryce Miller)<br><strong>100 Butterfly:<\/strong> 1st (56.79 \u2013 Jayden Welker)<br><strong>100 Freestyle:<\/strong> 1st (56.19 \u2013 Gage Wannemacher), 2nd (56.82 \u2013 Octavius Tucker)<br><strong>200 Freestyle Relay:<\/strong> 2nd (1:40.83 \u2013 Gage Wannemacher, Octavius Tucker, Ian Rex, Jayden Welker)<br><strong>100 Backstroke:<\/strong> 3rd (1:08.41 \u2013 Ian Rex)<br><strong>100 Breaststroke: <\/strong>2nd (1:14.34\u2013Gage Wannemacher)<br><strong>400 Freestyle Relay:<\/strong> 1st (4:03.42 \u2013Octavius Tucker, Travis Francis, Bryce Miller, Jayden Welker)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Girls Results (all distances in yards)<\/em><\/strong><br><strong>200 Medley Relay:<\/strong> 4th (2:20.96 \u2013 Gracie Mull, Tyra McClain, Jamie Burenga, Allie Etter)<br><strong>50 Freestyle:<\/strong> 2nd (29.58- Tyra McClain)<br><strong>100 Freestyle:<\/strong> 2nd (1:10.64 \u2013Allie Etter)<br><strong>200 Freestyle Relay:<\/strong> 2nd (2:02.75 \u2013 Jamie Burenga, Tyra McClain, Allie Etter, Gracie Mull)<br><strong>100 Backstroke:<\/strong> 2nd (1:14.45 \u2013 Jamie Burenga), 5th (1:22.72\u2013 Gracie Mull)<br><strong>400 Freestyle Relay:<\/strong> 2nd (4:33.40\u2013 Allie Etter, Gracie Mull, Jamie Burenga, Tyra McClain)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cougar swimmers will face Wapakoneta at the Wapakoneta YMCA on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information BRYAN &#8212; The Van Wert High School boys and girls swimming teams traveled to the Williams County YMCA to compete in a mini-invitational against the Bryan Golden Bears and the Bath Wildcats. The Cougar boys finished in second place while the girls finished third. Swimmers placing first in individual events included Ian Rex, [&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-139321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 00:37:50","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\/139321","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=139321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}