{"id":140459,"date":"2021-02-21T22:02:09","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T03:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=140459"},"modified":"2021-02-21T22:02:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T03:02:13","slug":"welker-to-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/02\/21\/welker-to-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Welker to state!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"545\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Jayden-Welker-2-21-2021.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-140458\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert\u2019s Jayden Welker (pictured above) is state bound after finishing fifth in the 100 yard butterfly (53.18) at the Division II district tournament held Friday at Bowling Green State University. He\u2019ll swim again Thursday at Canton McKinley High School. All other Cougar swimmers set personal records at the district tournament. 100 Backstroke: 31st (1:11.01 \u2013Jamie Burenga); 400 Freestyle Relay: 21st (4:14.88 \u2013 Tyra McClain, Gracie Mull, Jamie Burenga, Allie Etter); 200 Medley Relay: 15th (1:47.78 \u2013Ian Rex, Gage Wannemacher, Jayden Welker, Octavius Tucker); 200 Freestyle: 27th (2:01.64 \u2013 Ian Rex); 200 Freestyle Relay: 14th (1:35.09 \u2013 Gage Wannemacher, Jayden Welker, Travis Francis, Octavius Tucker); 100 Backstroke: 30th (1:02.33 \u2013 Ian Rex); 400 Freestyle Relay: 12th (3:31.92 \u2013 Jayden Welker, Octavius Tucker, Ian Rex, Gage Wannemacher). <em>Photo submitted<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert\u2019s Jayden Welker (pictured above) is state bound after finishing fifth in the 100 yard butterfly (53.18) at the Division II district tournament held Friday at Bowling Green State University. He\u2019ll swim again Thursday at Canton McKinley High School. All other Cougar swimmers set personal records at the district tournament. 100 Backstroke: 31st (1:11.01 [&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-140459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 07:16:57","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\/140459","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=140459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}