{"id":155628,"date":"2022-07-01T03:49:46","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T08:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=155628"},"modified":"2022-07-01T03:49:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T08:49:46","slug":"area-swimmers-to-converge-on-wapakoneta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2022\/07\/01\/area-swimmers-to-converge-on-wapakoneta\/","title":{"rendered":"Area swimmers to converge on Wapakoneta"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent sports\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WAPAKONETA &#8212; More than 500 swimmers and their families will descend on the Wapakoneta Community Swimming Pool Friday and Saturday, July 8-9, for the 40th annual Elks Invitational Swim Meet and Western Ohio Aquatics League (WOAL) League Championship. The WOAL is for swimmers aged 4-18 who are members of one of the league\u2019s teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eight teams will compete for the 2022 league title: Ada, Bluffton, Findlay, Kenton, Shawnee Country Club, Wapakoneta, Westside and Van Wert. Each year the championships rotate between Bluffton, Kenton and Wapakoneta pools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Events will begin at 9 a.m. on Friday and will conclude around 2 p.m. Day No. 2 will start at 9 a.m. on Saturday and will conclude around 3 p.m. The league champs will be crowned at the end of Saturday\u2019s session. On Saturday, one female and one male WOAL swimmer will be awarded the Beverly R. Little Memorial Scholarship in recognition of their gifts to the WOAL Swim League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The WOAL could not operate a champs meet without the generosity of local company and individual sponsors \u2013 Lima Elks No. 54 (event winners), Destin Logistics, JTB Tech, Kelly\u2019s Poco Loco, Orthopedic Institute of Ohio, Precision Strip, Diamond M, NWO Orthopedics, Quest FCU, Skinny\u2019s Tavern, Roger\u2019s Agency, Women\u2019s Health for Life, YMCA Van Wert, YWCA Van Wert, Wintzer, D\u2019signs by Day, Epperly family, Wireman, GROB, Harrison Insurance, Midwest Electric, Wapak Athletic Club, 500 Section Lounge, and the Lake of Lights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent sports\/submitted information WAPAKONETA &#8212; More than 500 swimmers and their families will descend on the Wapakoneta Community Swimming Pool Friday and Saturday, July 8-9, for the 40th annual Elks Invitational Swim Meet and Western Ohio Aquatics League (WOAL) League Championship. The WOAL is for swimmers aged 4-18 who are members of one of [&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-155628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 01:09:34","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\/155628","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=155628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155629,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155628\/revisions\/155629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}