{"id":151493,"date":"2022-02-21T04:46:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T09:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=151493"},"modified":"2022-02-21T04:46:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T09:46:09","slug":"vw-swimmers-enjoy-record-setting-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2022\/02\/21\/vw-swimmers-enjoy-record-setting-day\/","title":{"rendered":"VW swimmers enjoy record-setting day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent sports and submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BOWLING GREEN &#8212; Friday was a record-setting day for Van Wert swimmers at the Division II district swim meet at Bowling Green State University and one Cougar earned a spot in this week\u2019s OHSAA State tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jayden Welker advanced to State by placing third in the 200 yard individual medley with a school record time of 2:01.36. He also placed fifth in the 100 yard butterfly (school record 52.74), which qualified him for State in that event. The State tournament will begin Wednesday at C.T. Branin Natatorium at Canton McKinley High School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, Welker was the anchor of the 400 yard freestyle relay (Sam Houg, Ian Rex and Gage Wannemacher) that set a new school record time (3:28.29).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Boys results (all distances in yards)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>200 Freestyle: 13th (1:53.18 \u2013 Sam Houg)<br>200 Individual Medley: 3rd (2:01.36 \u2013 Jayden Welker)<br>100 Butterfly: 5th (52.74 \u2013 Jayden Welker)<br>500 Freestyle: 25th (5:24.00 \u2013 Ian Rex)<br>200 Freestyle Relay: 15th (1:35.41 \u2013 Jayden Welker, Sam Houg, Gage Wannemacher, Ian Rex)<br>400 Freestyle Relay: 9th (3:28.29 \u2013 Sam Houg, Ian Rex, Gage Wannemacher, Jayden Welker)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Girls Results (all distances in yards)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>200 Freestyle: 13th (2:05.49 \u2013 Haley Chiles)<br>500 Freestyle: 14th (5:47.00 \u2013 Haley Chiles)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent sports and submitted information BOWLING GREEN &#8212; Friday was a record-setting day for Van Wert swimmers at the Division II district swim meet at Bowling Green State University and one Cougar earned a spot in this week\u2019s OHSAA State tournament. Jayden Welker advanced to State by placing third in the 200 yard individual [&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-151493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 23:11:40","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\/151493","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=151493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}