{"id":149392,"date":"2021-12-20T04:45:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T09:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=149392"},"modified":"2021-12-20T04:45:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T09:45:20","slug":"cougar-swimmers-take-on-ada-elida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/12\/20\/cougar-swimmers-take-on-ada-elida\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougar swimmers take on Ada, Elida"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent sports and submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Van Wert High School boys and girls swimming teams hosted Ada High School and Elida High school in a double-dual meet on Thursday, December 16, and the Cougar boys were victorious over Ada (43-12) and Elida (43-35), while the girls fell to both teams (Ada 46-25, Elida 49-27).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cougar swimmers who earned first place finishes were Hailey Chiles, Lilie Mull, Gracie Mull, Tyra McClain, Sam Houg, Owen Scott, Ian Rex, Gage Wannemacher and Jayden Welker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2021-22-VWHS-Swim-Team.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-149394\"\/><figcaption>Van Wert Cougar swimmers recently took to the pool against Ada and Elida. <em>Photo submitted <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Boys Results (all distances in meters \u2013 places A against Ada, E against Elida)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>200 Medley Relay: A 1st E 1st (2:12.76 \u2013Ian Rex, Owen Scott, Jayden Welker, Sam Houg)<br>200 Freestyle: A 1st E 1st (2:19.41 \u2013 Sam Houg), A 2nd E 2nd (2:22.03-Ian Rex)<br>50 Freestyle: A 1st E 1st (27.57\u2013Gage Wannemacher), A 4th E 4th (35.03-Owen Scott)<br>100 Butterfly: A 1st E 1st (1:01.28 \u2013Jayden Welker)<br>100 Freestyle: A 1st E 1st (1:00.63 \u2013 Gage Wannemacher), A 2nd E 2nd (1:01.19 \u2013 Sam Houg)<br>400 Freestyle: A 1st E 1st (5:00.31 \u2013 Ian Rex)<br>200 Freestyle Relay: A 1st E 1st (1:57.80 \u2013 Jayden Welker, Gage Wannemacher, Sam Houg, Owen Scott)<br>100 Breaststroke: A 1st E 1st (1:18.37 \u2013 Jayden Welker), A 3rd E 3rd (1:38.59 \u2013 Owen Scott)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Girls Results (all distances in meters \u2013 places A against Ada, E against Elida)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>200 Medley Relay: A 2nd E 2nd (2:40.58 \u2013 Lilie Mull, Gracie Mull, Haley Chiles, Tyra McClain)<br>200 Freestyle: A 1st E 1st (2:30.08 \u2013 Haley Chiles)<br>50 Freestyle: A 1st E 2nd (34.25-Tyra McClain), A 2nd E 3rd (24.58 \u2013 Gracie Mull)<br>100 Freestyle: A 2nd E 1st (1:24.56 \u2013 Lilie Mull)<br>400 Freestyle: A 1st E 1st (5:18.35 \u2013 Haley Chiles)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cougar swimmers will return to action January 10, when they travel to the Putnam County YMCA to compete against Ottawa-Glandorf and St. Marys Memorial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent sports and submitted information The Van Wert High School boys and girls swimming teams hosted Ada High School and Elida High school in a double-dual meet on Thursday, December 16, and the Cougar boys were victorious over Ada (43-12) and Elida (43-35), while the girls fell to both teams (Ada 46-25, Elida 49-27). [&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-149392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 09:47:05","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\/149392","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=149392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}