{"id":161561,"date":"2022-12-29T04:34:25","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T09:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=161561"},"modified":"2022-12-29T04:34:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T09:34:25","slug":"vw-cougar-swimmers-compete-in-lima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2022\/12\/29\/vw-cougar-swimmers-compete-in-lima\/","title":{"rendered":"VW Cougar swimmers compete in Lima"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Van Wert Cougar swim team traveled to Lima for the annual Holiday Invitational involving 27 teams, including eight Western Buckeye League schools. The Cougar boys took 10th place at Tuesday’s meet, while the girls finished 19th. Wapakoneta took first place for the boys with Versailles showing victory in the girl\u2019s events. Bluffton earned runner-up status for the boy\u2019s teams with Ottawa Glandorf claiming the girls\u2019 runner up title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Van Wert’s Tyra McClain prepares to start the 50-yard freestyle race. Photo submitted<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Other schools participating (in order of finish in the girls standings) included New Bremen, Ada, Elida, Shawnee, Coldwater, Fort Recovery, Kenton, Minster, Wayne, Botkins, Wapakoneta, Sidney, St. Henry, St. Marys, Celina, Marion Local, Pandora-Gilboa, Bath, Lima Central Catholic, Fairbanks, Kalida and Fort Loramie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Highlights for the day included Sam Houg earning a second place finish and Haley Chiles earning a fourth place finish in the 200 free, Haley Chiles earning a fifth place finish in the 500 freestyle, Sam Houg earning a fourth place finish in the 100 freestyle, and Jayden Welker earning third place finishes in both the 100 butterfly and 100 backstroke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cougars will face Ottawa Glandorf and St. Marys at the Putnam County Family YMCA on January 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

200 Medley Relay:<\/strong> 21st (2:22.99 \u2013 Mandy Burenga, Haley Chiles, Lilie Mull, Gracie Mull)
200 Freestyle:<\/strong> 4th (2:10.03 \u2013 Haley Chiles)
50 Freestyle:<\/strong> 22nd (29.78 \u2013 Tyra McClain), 33rd (31.48 \u2013 Mandy Burenga), 45th (32.98 \u2013 Lilie Mull), 48th (33.06 \u2013 Sophie Gearhart), 74th (35.74 \u2013 Kailey Blythe)
100 Freestyle: <\/strong>20th (1:07.77 \u2013 Tyra McClain), 34th (1:10.74 \u2013 Gracie Mull), 37th (1:11.85 \u2013 Katie Kramer), 55th (1:17.55 \u2013 Sophie Gearhart), 85th (1:30.97 \u2013 Kailey Blythe)
500 Freestyle: <\/strong>5th (5:58.97 \u2013 Haley Chiles)
200 Freestyle Relay:<\/strong> 5th (2:04.72 \u2013 Haley Chiles, Gracie Mull, Tyra McClain, Lilie Mull), 22nd (2:12.55 \u2013Kailey Blythe, Mandy Burenga, Katie Kramer, Sophie Gearhart)
100 Backstroke:<\/strong> 28th (1:22.67 \u2013 Gracie Mull), 34th (1:25.99 \u2013 Katie Kramer)
100 Breaststroke:<\/strong> 28th (1:33.41 \u2013 Mandy Burenga), 35th (1:37.88 \u2013 Lilie Mull)
400 Freestyle Relay:<\/strong> 14th (5:11.95\u2013Kailey Blythe, Sophie Gearhart, Katie Kramer, Tyra McClain)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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

200 Medley Relay:<\/strong> 7th (1:57.55 \u2013 Griffin Gunter, Sam Houg, Owen Scott, Jayden Welker)
200 Freestyle:<\/strong> 2nd (1:58.77 \u2013 Sam Houg)
50 Freestyle: <\/strong>29th (27.12 \u2013 Griffin Gunter), 41st (28.43 \u2013Owen Scott)
100 Butterfly:<\/strong> 3rd (55.48 \u2013 Jayden Welker)
100 Freestyle:<\/strong> 4th (52.18 \u2013 Sam Houg)
200 Freestyle Relay:<\/strong> 8th (1:42.79 \u2013Griffin Gunter, Sam Houg, Owen Scott, Jayden Welker)
100 Backstroke:<\/strong> 3rd (28.43 \u2013 Jayden Welker)
100 Breaststroke:<\/strong> 17th (1:17.74 \u2013 Griffin Gunter), 18th (1:18.97 \u2013 Owen Scott)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Submitted information The Van Wert Cougar swim team traveled to Lima for the annual Holiday Invitational involving 27 teams, including eight Western Buckeye League schools. The Cougar boys took 10th place at Tuesday’s meet, while the girls finished 19th. Wapakoneta took first place for the boys with Versailles showing victory in the girl\u2019s events. Bluffton […]<\/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-161561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 19:30:57","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\/161561","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=161561"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161565,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161561\/revisions\/161565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}