{"id":162526,"date":"2023-01-27T23:20:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T04:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=162526"},"modified":"2023-01-27T23:20:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T04:20:50","slug":"van-wert-swimmers-sweep-defiance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2023\/01\/27\/van-wert-swimmers-sweep-defiance\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Wert swimmers sweep Defiance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DEFIANCE &#8212; Van Wert swept Defiance in a Western Buckeye League dual swimming meet, with the boys winning 57-44 and the girls posting a 63-61 victory at the Defiance YMCA on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cougars earned first place finishes in every event except five. Swimmers placing first in events included: Tyra McClain, Sam Houg, Haley Chiles, Owen Scott, Gracie Mull, Jayden Welker, Katie Kramer, Lilie Mull and Noah Spector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"285\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Mull-Backstroke.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-162527\"\/><figcaption>Gracie Mull swims the 100 yard backstroke. Photo submitted<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Boys Results (all distances in yards)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>200 Medley Relay: 1st (2:03.38 \u2013 Sam Houg, Owen Scott, Jayden Welker, Noah Spector)<br>200 Freestyle: 1st (2:01.25 \u2013 Sam Houg)<br>200 Individual medley: 1st (2:16.01 \u2013 Jayden Welker)<br>50 Freestyle: 2nd (33.71-Noah Spector)<br>100 Butterfly: 1st (56.30 \u2013Jayden Welker)<br>100 Freestyle: 1st (59.87 \u2013 Sam Houg), 2nd (1:01.63 \u2013 Owen Scott), 3rd (1:14.61 \u2013 Noah Spector)<br>200 Freestyle Relay: 1st (1:51.02 \u2013Jayden Welker, Noah Spector, Owen Scott, Sam Houg)<br>100 Breaststroke: 1st (1:20.99 \u2013 Owen Scott)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Girls Results (all distances in yards)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>200 Medley Relay: 2nd (2:22.82 \u2013 Gracie Mull, Mandy Burenga, Haley Chiles, Tyra McClain)<br>200 Freestyle: 1st (2:14.51 \u2013 Haley Chiles) 3rd (2:34.72 \u2013 Lilie Mull), 4th (2:40.57 \u2013 Katie Kramer)<br>50 Freestyle: 2nd (29.90-Tyra McClain) 3rd (32.14 \u2013 Sophie Gearhart) 6th (37.10 \u2013 Kaylie Blythe)<br>100 Freestyle: 2nd (1:08.97 \u2013 Tyra McClain), 3rd (1:11.77 \u2013 Lilie Mull) 6th (1:24.89 \u2013 Kaylie Blythe)<br>500 Freestyle 1st (6:07.29 \u2013 Haley Chiles)<br>200 Freestyle Relay: 2nd (2:10.20 \u2013Gracie Mull, Mandy Burenga, Sophie Gearhart, Lilie Mull Mull)<br>100 Backstroke: 1st (1:25.71 \u2013 Gracie Mull) 3rd (1:41.89 \u2013 Katie Kramer)<br>100 Breaststroke: 3rd (1:34.85 \u2013 Mandy Burenga)<br>400 Freestyle Relay: 1st (4:36.61 \u2013 Tyra McClain, Lilie Mull, Katie Kramer, Haley Chiles) 2nd (5:10.54 \u2013 Gracie Mull, Sophie Gearhart, Mandy Burenga, Kaylie Blythe)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cougar swimmers will compete in the Western Buckeye League Championships in Napoleon today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent sports DEFIANCE &#8212; Van Wert swept Defiance in a Western Buckeye League dual swimming meet, with the boys winning 57-44 and the girls posting a 63-61 victory at the Defiance YMCA on Tuesday. The Cougars earned first place finishes in every event except five. Swimmers placing first in events included: Tyra McClain, Sam [&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-162526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-17 03:53:19","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\/162526","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=162526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162528,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162526\/revisions\/162528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}