{"id":2225,"date":"2011-01-31T03:59:38","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T08:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=2225"},"modified":"2011-01-31T03:59:38","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T08:59:38","slug":"vw-boys-3rd-girls-8th-at-swim-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2011\/01\/31\/vw-boys-3rd-girls-8th-at-swim-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"VW boys 3rd, girls 8th at swim meet"},"content":{"rendered":"

SANDRA GROOMS\/<\/strong>independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n

DEFIANCE \u2013 The Van Wert High School swim teams traveled to the Defiance County YMCA for the 14th annual WBL championships. The boys took third place out of 10 teams while the girls finished eighth. Lima Shawnee teams were champions and Celina teams were runners-up for both boys and girls. Other high schools participating included Lima Bath, Defiance, Elida, Kenton, Ottawa-Glandorf, St. Marys, and Wapakoneta.<\/p>\n

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Cougar swimmer Taylor Grooms swims the butterfly during the WBL swim meet over the weekend. (Photo by Mark Robenalt for the Van Wert independent)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Freshman Eric Easley was the best individual finisher of the day for the Cougars. His second-place medal finish with a time of 1:04.65 in the 100-yard breaststroke sets a new VWHS team record and breaks the previous record of 1:04.83 he set on January 22. Easley was also fifth in the 200-yard freestyle.<\/p>\n

The boys\u2019 200-yard medley relay also finished second and 400-yard freestyle relay finished fourth. Members of both relays were Cody Hanes, Trey Stemen, Adam Saylor, and Easley. The 200 freestyle relay with AJ Foster, Vincent Silette, Kase Schalois, Matt Cucciarre finished in eighth place.<\/p>\n

Other scorers for the Cougar boys were Schalois, 11th in the 500-yard freestyle and fifth in 1-meter diving; Saylor, 11th in the 50-yard freestyle and eighth in the 100-yard freestyle; Hanes, ninth in the 100-yard butterfly and seventh in 1-meter diving; Stemen, eighth in the 100-yard backstroke and sixth in the 200-yard individual medley; Foster, sixth in the 50-yard freestyle and ninth in the 100-yard freestyle; and Garrett McDowell, 11th in 1-meter diving.<\/p>\n

Scoring for the Van Wert girls were Erin Dingle, fifth in the 200-yard freestyle and ninth in the 500-yard freestyle; Taylor Grooms, 12th in the 200-yard individual medley and ninth in the 100-yard freestyle; Britany Jurczyk, eighth in the 100-yard backstroke; and Rebecca Johnson, 12th in the 200-yard freestyle.<\/p>\n

The girls\u2019 200-yard medley relay with Dingle, Jurczyk, Alex Czajkowski, and Grooms finished fifth, while the 200-yard freestyle relay with Karlyn Koontz, Holly Hammond, Johnson and Linzey Rice finished sixth, and the 400-yard freestyle relay with Dingle, Jurczyk, Koontz and Grooms finished in eighth place.<\/p>\n

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  • Girls Results (all distances in yards)<\/strong><\/li>\n
  • 200 Medley Relay:\u00a0 5th<\/sup> (2:08.95 \u2013Brittany Jurczyk, Erin Dingle, Alex Czajkowski, Taylor Grooms)<\/li>\n
  • 200 Freestyle:\u00a0 5th<\/sup> (2:16.96 \u2013 Erin Dingle), 12th<\/sup> (2:32.25 \u2013 Rebecca Johnson), 22nd<\/sup> ( 2:46.91 \u2013 Andi Foster), 26th<\/sup> ( 2:51.75 \u2013 Laney Ellzey)<\/li>\n
  • 200 Individual Medley: 12th<\/sup> (2:43.99 \u2013 Taylor Grooms), 15th<\/sup> (2:48.90 – Karlyn Koontz), 20th<\/sup> (2:59.10- Alex Czajkowski)<\/li>\n
  • 50 Freestyle: 18th<\/sup> (30.33 \u2013 Holly Hammond), 21st<\/sup> (31.96 \u2013 Linzey Rice), 25th<\/sup> (33.65- Laney Ellzey), 33rd\u00a0 (36.31 \u2013 Courtney Smith)<\/li>\n
  • 100 Freestyle:\u00a0 9th<\/sup> (101.59 \u2013 Taylor Grooms), 17th<\/sup> (1:08.08 \u2013 Brittany Jurczyk) \u00a0,21st<\/sup> <\/sup>(1:13.74 \u2013 Linzey Rice), 30th<\/sup> (1:19.03 \u2013 Reed Wermer)<\/li>\n
  • 500 Freestyle: 9th<\/sup> (6:19.68 \u2013 Erin Dingle), 15th<\/sup> (6:50.39 \u2013 Karlyn Koontz)<\/li>\n
  • 200 Freestyle Relay:\u00a0 6th<\/sup> (2:06.94 \u2013 Karlyn Koontz, Holly Hammond, Rebecca Johnson, Linzey Rice).<\/li>\n
  • 100 Backstroke:\u00a0 \u00a08th<\/sup> (1:12.85 \u2013 Brittany Jurczyk),17th<\/sup> (1:17.35 \u2013 Holly Hammond), 23rd<\/sup> (1:24.29 \u2013 Rebecca Johnson), 26th<\/sup> (1:29.52 \u2013 Andi Foster)<\/li>\n
  • 100 Breaststroke:\u00a0 14th<\/sup> (1:25.82 \u2013 Alex Czajkowski), 29th<\/sup> (1:39.68 \u2013 Reed Wermer), 30th<\/sup> (1:40.72 \u2013 Courtney Smith)<\/li>\n
  • 400 Freestyle Relay:\u00a0 8th<\/sup> (4:25.75 – Brittany Jurczyk, Karlyn Koontz, Erin Dingle, Taylor Grooms)<\/li>\n
  • Boys Results (all distances in yards)<\/strong><\/li>\n
  • 200 Medley Relay:\u00a0 2nd<\/sup> (1:52.10 \u2013 Cody Hanes, Trey Stemen, Eric Easley, Adam Saylor)<\/li>\n
  • 200 Freestyle: 5th <\/sup>(1:58.05- Eric Easley), 14th<\/sup> ( 2:11.77- Matt Cucciarre), 22nd<\/sup> ( 2:26.73 \u2013 Shane Robenalt), 26th<\/sup> (2:30.39\u2013 Daniel Silette)<\/li>\n
  • 200 Individual Medley: 6th<\/sup> (2:17.51 \u2013 Trey Stemen)<\/li>\n
  • 50 Freestyle: 6th<\/sup> (24.79 \u2013 A.J. Foster), 11th<\/sup> (25.97 \u2013 Adam Saylor), 17th<\/sup> (26.74 \u2013 Vincent Silette), 32nd<\/sup> (30.80 \u2013 Jacob Scheidt)<\/li>\n
  • 1 Meter Diving: \u00a05th<\/sup> (288.30 pts\u00a0 – Kase Schalois), 7th<\/sup> ( 252.40 pts \u2013 Cody Hanes), 11th<\/sup> (207.15 pts- Garrett Mc Dowell)<\/li>\n
  • 100 Butterfly:\u00a0\u00a0 9th<\/sup> (106.46 – Cody Hanes)<\/li>\n
  • 100 Freestyle: 8th<\/sup> (57.86 \u2013 Adam Saylor), 9th<\/sup> (58.16 \u2013 A.J. Foster), 26th<\/sup> (1:04.95 \u2013 Daniel Silette), 27th<\/sup> (1:08.36 \u2013 Nathan Profit)<\/li>\n
  • 500 Freestyle: 11th<\/sup> (5:52.70 \u2013 Kase Schalois), 14th<\/sup> (5:59.59 \u2013 Matt Cucciarre)<\/li>\n
  • 200 Freestyle Relay: 8th<\/sup> (1:47.32 \u2013 AJ Foster, Vincent Silette, Kase Schalois, Matt Cucciarre)<\/li>\n
  • 100 Backstroke:\u00a0 8th<\/sup> (1:03.80 \u2013 Trey Stemen), 16th<\/sup> (1:10.53 \u2013 Vincent Silette), 23rd<\/sup> (1:26.12 \u2013 Jacob Scheidt)<\/li>\n
  • 100 Breaststroke: 2nd<\/sup> (1:04.65 \u2013 Eric Easley), 23rd<\/sup> (1:22.83 \u2013 Shane Robenalt), 25th<\/sup> (1:26.17 \u2013 Nathan Profit)<\/li>\n
  • 400 Freestyle Relay:\u00a0 4th<\/sup> (4:08.17- Cody Hanes, Eric Easley, Adam Saylor, Trey Stemen)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    SANDRA GROOMS\/independent sports DEFIANCE \u2013 The Van Wert High School swim teams traveled to the Defiance County YMCA for the 14th annual WBL championships. The boys took third place out of 10 teams while the girls finished eighth. Lima Shawnee teams were champions and Celina teams were runners-up for both boys and girls. Other high […]<\/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-2225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 03:57:38","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\/2225","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=2225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}