Van Wert cross country news<\/i><\/p>\n
GREENVILLE — The Van Wert High School cross country teams competed at the highly competitive Greenville Treaty City Invitational on Saturday.\u00a0 Both teams fared well, garnering fourth place finishes in the men\u2019s and women\u2019s races.<\/p>\n
Connor Holliday again led the charge for the Cougars, finishing third overall and clocking a season-best time of 16:45.\u00a0 Not far behind were Jordan Butler in 12th (17:15), Connor Shaffer in 20th (17:35), Cade Fleming in 29th (17:53), and Daniel Perry in 32nd (17:55).\u00a0 Other varsity runners competing included Eric Easley, Ryan Rice, Nick Keber, Ryan Keber, and Tyrone Cowdrick.<\/p>\n
The Lady Cougars put forth a solid effort against three state-ranked teams.\u00a0Chloee Gamble was the first Cougar to cross the line in ninth place in a time of 20:08.\u00a0Seniors Amanda Clay (15th) and Andi Foster (16th) were the next Cougar finishers (20:58 and 20:59, respectively).\u00a0 Rounding out the scorers were Schealissa Williams in 19th (21:16) and Megan Barnhart in 31st (22:09).\u00a0 Other varsity finishers were Whitney Meyers, Natalie Riethman, and Alicia Danylchuck.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was proud of how both teams performed today,\u201d said Van Wert Coach Brendon Moody.\u00a0\u201cAlthough a fourth place finish isn\u2019t where we want to be, you have to put into perspective the quality of teams that were racing today.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the open races, Morgan Bracken was the top Cougar runner, finishing in ninth place, while Dylan Lautzenheiser paced the boys with a 32nd place finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Van Wert cross country news GREENVILLE — The Van Wert High School cross country teams competed at the highly competitive Greenville Treaty City Invitational on Saturday.\u00a0 Both teams fared well, garnering fourth place finishes in the men\u2019s and women\u2019s races. Connor Holliday again led the charge for the Cougars, finishing third overall and clocking a […]<\/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-42537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 05:22:58","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\/42537","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=42537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}