{"id":39551,"date":"2013-06-10T06:06:58","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T11:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=39551"},"modified":"2013-06-10T06:06:58","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T11:06:58","slug":"fleming-2nd-in-1600-at-state-track-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2013\/06\/10\/fleming-2nd-in-1600-at-state-track-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"Fleming 2nd in 1600 at state track meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Van Wert independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n<p>COLUMBUS &#8212; Last year, in winning the state 800-meter title, Van Wert\u2019s Jared Fleming opted to scratch the 1600-meter race he was also qualified for. This year, he decided to go for it all, including running legs of the 4&#215;400 and 4&#215;800-meter relay races, a decision had mixed results.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39552\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39552\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/VWHS-at-state-track-meet-2013-Fleming-in-1600.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39552\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/VWHS-at-state-track-meet-2013-Fleming-in-1600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"470\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39552\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jared Fleming of Van Wert battles for a second-place finish in the 1600-meter race in Division II of the OHSAA State Track Meet on Saturday. (Monica Campbell\/Van Wert independent)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Fleming first ran a school-record 1600-meter time of 4:15.29 that left him runner-up to Versailles\u2019 Sam Prakel in the 1600, in addition to a fourth-place finish in the 4&#215;800 and a sixth-place finish in the 4&#215;400, but also resulted in a last-place finish in the 800, the race he won last year.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, though, a great finish to arguably the most illustrious career of any runner at Van Wert High School.<\/p>\n<p>Fleming and fellow runners Seth Kopp, Quincey Salcido and Nick Krugh ran a personal best of 3:23.21 in finishing sixth in the 4&#215;400, in addition to setting a school record 7:54.57 in the 4&#215;800-meter relay race with Kopp, Kase Schalois and Connor Holliday on Friday. In that race, Fleming ran what was thought to be a 1:51 leg &#8212; two seconds faster than his regional-winning time.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Saturday, Amanda Clay took a ninth-place finish in the 400-meter dash for Van Wert, while Cougar Alexis Dowdy, a freshman, was 10th in the shotput.<\/p>\n<p>In Division III, Crestview\u2019s Mycah Grandstaff was ninth in the 3200-meter race in Division III, while Bayley Tow finished 12th in the 1600-meter race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent sports COLUMBUS &#8212; Last year, in winning the state 800-meter title, Van Wert\u2019s Jared Fleming opted to scratch the 1600-meter race he was also qualified for. This year, he decided to go for it all, including running legs of the 4&#215;400 and 4&#215;800-meter relay races, a decision had mixed results. Fleming first [&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-39551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 17:11:19","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\/39551","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=39551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}