{"id":206467,"date":"2026-05-31T07:32:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T12:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=206467"},"modified":"2026-05-31T07:32:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T12:32:28","slug":"foster-cowan-to-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/05\/31\/foster-cowan-to-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Foster, Cowan to state!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"663\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Flannery-Foster-5-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-206468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Flannery-Foster-5-2026.jpg 550w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Flannery-Foster-5-2026-498x600.jpg 498w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Van Wert\u2019s Flannery Foster (above) and Micah Cowan (below) have both qualified for the OHSAA Division III track and field state championshps. Foster, who just completed her freshman year at Van Wert High School, qualified by placing third at the Piqua regional with a throw of 123-02. Cowan, who just finished his junior year, qualified in the 300 meter hurdles with a fifth place finish (39.82) at the Piqua regional. The track and field state championships will be held at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium at Ohio State University Thursday through Sunday. <em>Photos courtesy of Monica Campbell<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"515\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Micah-Cowan-5-2026-515x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-206470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Micah-Cowan-5-2026-515x800.jpg 515w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Micah-Cowan-5-2026-386x600.jpg 386w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Micah-Cowan-5-2026.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert\u2019s Flannery Foster (above) and Micah Cowan (below) have both qualified for the OHSAA Division III track and field state championshps. Foster, who just completed her freshman year at Van Wert High School, qualified by placing third at the Piqua regional with a throw of 123-02. Cowan, who just finished his junior year, qualified [&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-206467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 03:07:03","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\/206467","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=206467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206471,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206467\/revisions\/206471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}