{"id":3015,"date":"2011-02-14T00:56:04","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T05:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=3015"},"modified":"2011-02-14T01:03:28","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T06:03:28","slug":"cougar-boy-swimmers-win-sectionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2011\/02\/14\/cougar-boy-swimmers-win-sectionals\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougar boy swimmers win sectional title"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

AYERSVILLE \u2013 The Van Wert High School swimming and diving teams traveled to Ayersville High School, along with Ada, Ayersville, Bryan, Coldwater, Defiance, Elida, Hicksville, Kenton, McGuffey Upper Scioto Valley, and St Marys Memorial High Schools, for the sectional swimming tournament. The Cougar boys\u2019 team captured the sectional title and the Cougar girls team finished fifth overall.<\/p>\n

Junior Taylor Grooms finished the day as sectional champion of both the girls 200-yard freestyle\u00a0 and the girls 500-yard freestyle. Finishing first qualified her to compete in next week\u2019s district championship meet at Bowling Green State University.<\/p>\n

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Van Wert's Reed Wermer swims the 200-yard freestyle during Saturday's sectional swim meet. (Photo by Mark Robenalt for the Van Wert independent)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Erin Dingle will also advance to districts in the girls 500-yard freestyle after finishing as sectional runner-up.<\/p>\n

Every Cougar boys\u2019 team member scored in the sectional championship to help capture the sectional title, despite no first-place finishes.<\/p>\n

The boys\u2019 200-yard medley and 400-yard freestyle relay teams finished runner-up and qualified to advance to districts. Members of the relay teams were Eric Easley, Trey Stemen, Adam Saylor and Cody Hanes.<\/p>\n

Sophomore Kase Schalois finished runner-up and will advance in the boys\u2019 1-meter, 11-dive event. His sectional score of 380.25 points breaks the VWHS school record of 289.10 points set by Ryan Agler in 2009.<\/p>\n

Other individual boys who qualified by time to complete in the districts include: AJ Foster in the 50-yard freestyle, Hanes in the 100-yard backstroke and 200-yard individual medley, Easley in the 100-yard breaststroke and 200-yard individual medley and Stemen in the 100-yard breaststroke and 200-yard individual medley. Garrett McDowell will also compete in diving,<\/p>\n

Girls Results (all distances in yards)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  • *Scored team points<\/strong><\/li>\n
  • 200 Medley Relay:\u00a0 *5th<\/sup> (2:09.77 \u2013Brittany Jurczyk, Alex Czajkowski, Taylor Grooms, Erin Dingle)<\/li>\n
  • 200 Freestyle:\u00a0 *1st<\/sup> (2:12.98 \u2013 Taylor Grooms), *9th<\/sup> (2:35.41 \u2013 Rebecca Johnson), 21st<\/sup> ( 2:52.15 \u2013 Laney Ellzey), 26th<\/sup> (3:00.96 \u2013 Reed Wermer)<\/li>\n
  • 200\u00a0 Individual\u00a0 Medley:\u00a0 *6th<\/sup> (2:48.15 – Karlyn Koontz)<\/li>\n
  • 50 Freestyle: *9th<\/sup> (27.99 \u2013 Erin Dingle), 18th<\/sup> (31.45 \u2013 Holly Hammond), 19th<\/sup> (31.75 \u2013 Linzey Rice), 25th<\/sup> (33.60 – Laney Ellzey)<\/li>\n
  • 100 Freestyle:\u00a0 *6th<\/sup> (1:05.16 \u2013 Brittany Jurczyk), *16th<\/sup> <\/sup>(1:12.30 \u2013 Linzey Rice), 17th<\/sup> (1:13.55 \u2013 Alex Czajkowski), 19th<\/sup> (1:14.75 \u2013 Andi Foster)<\/li>\n
  • 500 Freestyle: *1st<\/sup> (6:11.68 \u2013 Taylor Grooms), *2nd<\/sup> (6:14.87 \u2013 Erin Dingle), *4th<\/sup> (6:42.80 \u2013 Karlyn Koontz)<\/li>\n
  • 200 Freestyle Relay:\u00a0 *6th<\/sup> (1:54.82 \u2013Brittany Jurczyk, Holly Hammond, Erin Dingle, Taylor Grooms).<\/li>\n
  • 100 Backstroke: *5th<\/sup> (1:13.79 \u2013 Brittany Jurczyk), *10th<\/sup> (1:17.39 \u2013 Holly Hammond), *13th<\/sup> (1:22.68 \u2013 Rebecca Johnson), 17th<\/sup> (1:26.40 \u2013 Andi Foster)<\/li>\n
  • 100 Breaststroke:\u00a0 *5th<\/sup> (1:24.67 \u2013 Alex Czajkowski), *15th<\/sup> (1:41.00 \u2013 Courtney Smith), 17th<\/sup> (1:41.95 \u2013 Reed Wermer)<\/li>\n
  • 400 Freestyle Relay: *6th (4:51.21 – Karlyn Koontz, Rebecca Johnson, Linzey Rice, Holly Hammond)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Boys Results (all distances in yards), <\/strong><\/p>\n

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    • *Scored team points<\/strong><\/li>\n
    • 200 Medley Relay: *2nd<\/sup> (1:52.07 \u2013 Cody Hanes, Trey Stemen, Eric Easley, Adam Saylor)<\/li>\n
    • 200 Freestyle: *9th<\/sup> (2:11.74- Matt Cucciarre), *10th<\/sup> (2:30.39\u2013 Daniel Silette), *11th<\/sup> (2:31.57 \u2013 Nathan Profit)<\/li>\n
    • 200 Individual Medley: *3rd<\/sup> (2:11.29 \u2013 Eric Easley), *5th<\/sup> (2:17.92 \u2013 Trey Stemen),* 6th<\/sup> (2:22.53 \u2013 Cody Hanes)<\/li>\n
    • 50 Freestyle: *3rd<\/sup> (24.83 \u2013 A.J. Foster), *7th<\/sup> (25.60 \u2013 Adam Saylor), *13th<\/sup> (25.60 \u2013 Vincent Silette), 22nd<\/sup> (30.59 \u2013 Jacob Scheidt)<\/li>\n
    • 1 Meter Diving:\u00a0 *2nd<\/sup> (310.25\u00a0 pts. – Kase Schalois), *7th<\/sup> (238.90\u00a0 pts. – Garrett Mc Dowell)<\/li>\n
    • 100 Freestyle: *5th<\/sup> (56.23 \u2013 A.J. Foster), *7th<\/sup> (56.68 \u2013 Adam Saylor), *14th<\/sup> (1:03.61 \u2013 Daniel Silette), *16th<\/sup> (1:04.83 \u2013 Shane Robenalt)<\/li>\n
    • 500 Freestyle: *7th<\/sup> (5:52.19 \u2013 Kase Schalois), *8th<\/sup> (5:52.19 \u2013 Matt Cucciarre)<\/li>\n
    • 200 Freestyle Relay: *8th<\/sup> (1:47.22 \u2013 AJ Foster, Vincent Silette, Kase Schalois, Matt Cucciarre)<\/li>\n
    • 100 Backstroke:\u00a0 *4th<\/sup> (1:03.18 \u2013 Cody Hanes),* 7th<\/sup> (1:08.08 \u2013 Vincent Silette), *16th<\/sup> (1:27.70 \u2013 Jacob Scheidt)<\/li>\n
    • 100 Breaststroke: *3rd<\/sup> (1:05.81 \u2013 Eric Easley), *7th<\/sup> (1:10.85 \u2013 Trey Stemen), *14th<\/sup> (1:24.62 \u2013 Nathan Profit)<\/li>\n
    • 400 Freestyle Relay: *2nd<\/sup> (3:46.14 – Cody Hanes, Eric Easley, Adam Saylor, Trey Stemen)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      SANDRA GROOMS\/independent sports AYERSVILLE \u2013 The Van Wert High School swimming and diving teams traveled to Ayersville High School, along with Ada, Ayersville, Bryan, Coldwater, Defiance, Elida, Hicksville, Kenton, McGuffey Upper Scioto Valley, and St Marys Memorial High Schools, for the sectional swimming tournament. The Cougar boys\u2019 team captured the sectional title and the Cougar […]<\/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-3015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 04:46:32","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\/3015","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=3015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}