{"id":139606,"date":"2021-01-28T04:57:28","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T09:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=139606"},"modified":"2021-01-28T04:57:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T09:57:32","slug":"cougar-swimmers-split-vs-defiance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/01\/28\/cougar-swimmers-split-vs-defiance\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougar swimmers split vs. Defiance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

DEFIANCE — The Van Wert High School boys and girls swimming teams traveled to the Defiance YMCA to compete in a dual meet against the Bulldogs on Tuesday. The Cougar boys were victorious 74-23, while the girls fell 58-40.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Van Wert boys and girls earned first place finishes in every event except three. Swimmers placing first in individual events included: Jamie Burenga, Gracie Mull, Octavius Tucker, Gage Wannemacher, Ian Rex, and Jayden Welker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tyra McClain swims the breaststroke leg of the 200-yard medley relay against Defiance. Photo submitted <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Boys results (all distances in yards)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

200 Medley Relay:<\/strong> 1st (1:57.87 \u2013 Ian Rex, Gage Wannemacher, Jayden Welker, Octavius Tucker)
200 Freestyle:<\/strong> 1st (2:07.04 \u2013 Ian Rex), 2nd (2:14.97-Octavius Tucker)
200 Individual Medley:<\/strong> 1st (2:17.34 – Jayden Welker)
50 Freestyle:<\/strong> 1st (25.58\u2013 Gage Wannemacher), 2nd (25.67-Travis Francis), 6th (31.48 \u2013 Bryce Miller)
100 Butterfly:<\/strong> 1st (1:02.33 \u2013Jayden Welker)
100 Freestyle:<\/strong> 1st (58.19 \u2013 Octavius Tucker), 2nd (1:00.12 \u2013 Travis Francis), 4th (1:16.07 \u2013 Bryce Miller)
200 Freestyle Relay: <\/strong>1st (1:45.98 \u2013 Gage Wannemacher, Octavius Tucker, Jayden Welker, Travis Francis)
100 Backstroke:<\/strong> 1st (1:04.46 \u2013Ian Rex)
100 Breaststroke:<\/strong> 1st (1:17.16 \u2013 Gage Wannemacher)
400 Freestyle Relay:<\/strong> 1st (4:31.42 \u2013 Travis Francis, Bryce Miller, Ian Rex, Jayden Welker)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Girls Results (all distances in yards)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

200 Medley Relay:<\/strong> 2nd (2:21.41 \u2013 Jamie Burenga, Tyra McClain, Gracie Mull, Allie Etter)
200 Individual Medley: <\/strong>1st (3:01.72 \u2013 Gracie Mull)
50 Freestyle:<\/strong> 2nd (30.22-Tyra McClain)
100 Freestyle:<\/strong> 1st (1:06.35 \u2013 Gracie Mull), 2nd (1:08.18 \u2013 Allie Etter)
200 Freestyle Relay: <\/strong>1st (2:04.74 \u2013Jamie Burenga, Tyra McClain, Allie Etter, Gracie Mull)
100 Backstroke: <\/strong>1st (1:16.14 \u2013 Jamie Burenga)
400 Freestyle Relay:<\/strong> 1st (4:36.61 \u2013 Jamie Burenga, Tyra McClain, Gracie Mull, Allie Etter)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cougars will return to action Saturday when they travel to Napoleon for the Western Buckeye League Championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Submitted information DEFIANCE — The Van Wert High School boys and girls swimming teams traveled to the Defiance YMCA to compete in a dual meet against the Bulldogs on Tuesday. The Cougar boys were victorious 74-23, while the girls fell 58-40. Van Wert boys and girls earned first place finishes in every event except three. […]<\/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-139606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 02:51:18","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\/139606","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=139606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}