{"id":139450,"date":"2021-01-23T00:08:14","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T05:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=139450"},"modified":"2021-01-23T00:08:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-23T05:08:21","slug":"van-wert-swimmers-swept-by-wapak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/01\/23\/van-wert-swimmers-swept-by-wapak\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Wert swimmers swept by Wapak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WAPAKONETA &#8212; Van Wert High School\u2019s boys and girls swimming teams traveled to the Wapakoneta YMCA to compete in a dual meet against the Redskins on Thursday and both Cougar teams lost a hard fought battle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Athletes placing first in events included Ian Rex, Gage Wannemacher, Jayden Welker and Octavius Tucker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"545\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Ian-Rex-1-22-2021.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-139449\"\/><figcaption>Van Wert&#8217;s Ian Rex swims the 200-yard freestyle against Wapakoneta. <em>Photo submitted<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Boys results (all distances in yards)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>200 Medley Relay:<\/strong> 1st (1:53.83 \u2013 Ian Rex, Gage Wannemacher, Jayden Welker, Octavius Tucker)<br><strong>200 Freestyle:<\/strong> 4th (2:05.11 \u2013 Ian Rex)<br><strong>200 Individual Medley:<\/strong> 1st (2:12.79 &#8211; Jayden Welker)<br><strong>50 Freestyle:<\/strong> 4th (25.12\u2013 Octavius Tucker), 5th (25.51 \u2013 Travis Francis), 6th (25.75 \u2013 Gage Wannemacher)<br><strong>100 Butterfly:<\/strong> 1st (1:04.46 \u2013Jayden Welker)<br><strong>100 Freestyle: <\/strong>3rd (55.77 \u2013 Octavius Tucker), 4th (58.36 \u2013 Travis Francis)<br><strong>200 Freestyle Relay:<\/strong> 2nd (1:41.39 \u2013 Gage Wannemacher, Jayden Welker, Travis Francis, Octavius Tucker)<br><strong>100 Backstroke:<\/strong> 2nd (1:03.32 \u2013Jayden Welker), 3rd (1:04.44 \u2013Ian Rex)<br><strong>100 Breaststroke:<\/strong> 2nd (1:13.15 \u2013 Gage Wannemacher)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Girls Results (all distances in yards)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>200 Medley Relay:<\/strong> 2nd (2:20.96 \u2013 Jamie Burenga, Tyra McClain, Gracie Mull, Allie Etter)<br><strong>50 Freestyle:<\/strong> 4th (29.88-Tyra McClain)<br><strong>100 Freestyle:<\/strong> 4th (1:09.47 \u2013 Allie Etter)<br><strong>200 Freestyle Relay:<\/strong> 2nd (2:01.64 \u2013Jamie Burenga, Tyra McClain, Allie Etter, Gracie Mull)<br><strong>100 Backstroke:<\/strong> 2nd (1:15.32 \u2013 Jamie Burenga), 3rd (1:22.48\u2013 Gracie Mull)<br><strong>400 Freestyle Relay:<\/strong> 2nd (4:34.55\u2013 Allie Etter, Jamie Burenga, Tyra McClain, Gracie Mull)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cougars are scheduled to return to action Tuesday, when they travel to Defiance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information WAPAKONETA &#8212; Van Wert High School\u2019s boys and girls swimming teams traveled to the Wapakoneta YMCA to compete in a dual meet against the Redskins on Thursday and both Cougar teams lost a hard fought battle. Athletes placing first in events included Ian Rex, Gage Wannemacher, Jayden Welker and Octavius Tucker. Boys results [&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-139450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 08:49:27","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\/139450","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=139450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}