{"id":139783,"date":"2021-02-02T04:59:20","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T09:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=139783"},"modified":"2021-02-02T04:59:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T09:59:24","slug":"van-wert-swimmers-compete-at-wbl-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/02\/02\/van-wert-swimmers-compete-at-wbl-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Wert swimmers compete at WBL meet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

VW independent sports\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NAPOLEON — Van Wert\u2019s boys\u2019 swim team placed fifth and the girls\u2019 team finished seventh at the annual Western Buckeye League championship held in Napoleon on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wapakoneta claimed the boys\u2019 championship and Ottawa-Glandorf took the girls\u2019 title. St. Marys Memorial took runner-up for the boys and Wapakoneta finished as the runner-up in the girls event. Other schools participating (in order of finish in the boys standings) included Ottawa Glandorf, Lima Shawnee, Van Wert, Kenton, Defiance, Elida, Celina and Lima Bath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Van Wert’s Gracie Mull swims the backstroke leg of the 200 yard medley relay. Photo submitted <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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

200 Medley Relay: <\/strong>8th (2:15.35 \u2013Gracie Mull, Tyra McClain, Jamie Burenga, Allie Etter)
50 Freestyle: <\/strong>5th (29.10 \u2013Tyra McClain)
100 Freestyle:<\/strong> 9th (1:04.18 \u2013 Gracie Mull), 11th (1:04.63 \u2013 Allie Etter)
200 Freestyle Relay:<\/strong> 5th (1:57.66 \u2013Jamie Burenga, Tyra McClain, Allie Etter, Gracie Mull)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

100 Backstroke:<\/strong> 10th (1:11.22 \u2013Jamie Burenga)
100 Breaststroke: <\/strong>19th (1:38.72 \u2013Allie Etter)
400 Freestyle Relay:<\/strong> 7th (4:43.78 \u2013 Tyra McClain, Gracie Mull, Jamie Burenga, Allie Etter)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

200 Medley Relay:<\/strong> 4th (1:55.60 \u2013Ian Rex, Gage Wannemacher, Jayden Welker, Octavius Tucker)
200 Freestyle:<\/strong> 5th (2:01.31 \u2013 Ian Rex)
200 Individual Medley:<\/strong> 2nd (2:09.74 \u2013 Jayden Welker)
50 Freestyle:<\/strong> 7th (25.10 \u2013 Travis Francis), 31st (30.62 \u2013Bryce Miller)
100 Butterfly:<\/strong> 3rd (55.66 \u2013 Jayden Welker)
100 Freestyle:<\/strong> 7th (55.05 \u2013Octavius Tucker), 10th (57.90 \u2013 Travis Francis), 30th (1:12.2 \u2013 Bryce Miller)
200 Freestyle Relay: 4th (1:39.17 \u2013 Gage Wannemacher, Jayden Welker, Travis Francis, Octavius Tucker)
100 Backstroke:<\/strong> 4th (1:04.06 \u2013 Ian Rex)
100 Breaststroke: <\/strong>8th (1:13.56 \u2013 Gage Wannemacher)
400 Freestyle Relay:<\/strong> 5th (3:45.02 \u2013 Travis Francis, Ian Rex, Octavius Tucker, Gage Wannemacher)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next meet for the Cougars will be the OHSAA sectional tournament at Ayersville High School on Saturday, February 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VW independent sports\/submitted information NAPOLEON — Van Wert\u2019s boys\u2019 swim team placed fifth and the girls\u2019 team finished seventh at the annual Western Buckeye League championship held in Napoleon on Saturday. Wapakoneta claimed the boys\u2019 championship and Ottawa-Glandorf took the girls\u2019 title. St. Marys Memorial took runner-up for the boys and Wapakoneta finished as the […]<\/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-139783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 10:34:25","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\/139783","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=139783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}