{"id":190831,"date":"2025-03-18T20:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T01:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=190831"},"modified":"2025-03-18T20:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T01:52:10","slug":"cougar-hoops-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/03\/18\/cougar-hoops-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougar hoops awards&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"471\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/VW-boys-bball-awards-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-190832\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Van Wert recently concluded its boys basketball season with the team\u2019s annual postseason awards. Special award winners (pictured above, left to right): Zach Crummey &#8220;Chairman of The Boards&#8221; and &#8220;Rookie of The Year&#8221;, Keaten Welch &#8220;Cougar Award&#8221;, Caden Collins &#8220;Claw Award&#8221;, Cohen Bragg &#8220;Grit Award&#8221;, and Nate Gearhart &#8220;Cougar Pride Award.\u201d WBL honors (pictured below): Zach Crummey, second team All-WBL, Keaten Welch, third team All-WBL, and Griffin McCracken, honorable mention All-WBL. <em>Photos submitted<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"498\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/VW-boys-bball-awards-II-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-190833\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert recently concluded its boys basketball season with the team\u2019s annual postseason awards. Special award winners (pictured above, left to right): Zach Crummey &#8220;Chairman of The Boards&#8221; and &#8220;Rookie of The Year&#8221;, Keaten Welch &#8220;Cougar Award&#8221;, Caden Collins &#8220;Claw Award&#8221;, Cohen Bragg &#8220;Grit Award&#8221;, and Nate Gearhart &#8220;Cougar Pride Award.\u201d WBL honors (pictured below): [&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-190831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 17:24:38","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\/190831","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=190831"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190835,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190831\/revisions\/190835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}