{"id":179593,"date":"2024-05-22T03:32:15","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T08:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=179593"},"modified":"2024-05-22T12:56:44","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T17:56:44","slug":"goodwin-competes-at-state-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2024\/05\/22\/goodwin-competes-at-state-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodwin competes at state level"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Derek Sellers\/for the VW independent <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jaiden Goodwin is an eighth grader at Van Wert and he has a passion for bowling. Along with bowling, Jaiden has a love for sports and a competitive spirit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am very competitive,\u201d Goodwin explained. \u201cI like to win.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"176\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Jaiden-State-Bowling.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-179595\"\/><figcaption>Jaiden Goodwin<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Goodwin loves watching sports and he is also the waterboy for the Van Wert Cougar football team. He bowls every Saturday during bowling season and loves to bowl with his team Rocky Top. Hia grandmother Helen has always had a love for bowling and she decided to sign him up. Since then, he has quickly developed a love for bowling just like his grandma. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has been bowling since he was four, and Olympic Lanes has been a second home to Jaiden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHis attitude is important,\u201d his grandmother said. &#8220;He needs to enjoy himself and most importantly, have fun.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Goodwin recently had the opportunity to compete in the State Spring Handicap Tournament, and along with that, was able to compete in the State PEPSI tournament. The Spring Handicap Tournament has a scoring system that is modified for each bowler based on their limitations while the PEPSI tournament is based on a scratch score, which means there are no handicap adjustments for the bowler&#8217;s score. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He noted he had a great experience at his first state bowling tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Derek Sellers\/for the VW independent Jaiden Goodwin is an eighth grader at Van Wert and he has a passion for bowling. Along with bowling, Jaiden has a love for sports and a competitive spirit. \u201cI am very competitive,\u201d Goodwin explained. \u201cI like to win.\u201d Goodwin loves watching sports and he is also the waterboy for [&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-179593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 11:40:53","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\/179593","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=179593"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179630,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179593\/revisions\/179630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}