{"id":206231,"date":"2026-05-25T18:41:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T23:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=206231"},"modified":"2026-05-25T18:41:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T23:41:20","slug":"regional-qualifiers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/05\/25\/regional-qualifiers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Regional qualifiers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"516\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/VW-regional-qualifiers-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-206232\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Van Wert\u2019s track and field team will have nice representation at the Piqua Division III regional this week. Haven Hunt will compete in the 100 meter dash, while district champion Micah Cowan will compete in the 300 meter hurdles. Evan Kneuke is a regional qualifier in the 800 meter dash, as is Flannery Foster in the discus. Also qualifying for regionals: the girls 4&#215;400 relay team of Ruby Dicke, Leah Krites, Harper Roop and Hunt, and the boys 4&#215;800 relay team of Kneuke, Harrison Sloan, Jayden White and Alex Bauer. <em>Photo provided<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert\u2019s track and field team will have nice representation at the Piqua Division III regional this week. Haven Hunt will compete in the 100 meter dash, while district champion Micah Cowan will compete in the 300 meter hurdles. Evan Kneuke is a regional qualifier in the 800 meter dash, as is Flannery Foster in [&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-206231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-02 20:15:57","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\/206231","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=206231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206233,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206231\/revisions\/206233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}