VWMS cross country news<\/i><\/p>\n
OTTAWA — Saturday\u2019s cool conditions was a good omen for the Van Wert Middle School cross country teams at the Ottawa-Glandorf Blue\/Gold Cross Country Invitational, with the boys\u2019 and girls\u2019 teams recording 29 season-best times.<\/p>\n
In the overall team standings, the Lady Cougars were meet champions out of 13 teams and the boys were second out of 17 participating schools.<\/p>\n
Leading the Cougars with top 10 finishes were Cassidy Meyers in 12:47 (fourth and Sierra Shaffer in 13:16 (eighth).\u00a0 Julia Springer (18th), Nicole Clay (37th), and Erienne Cassidy (39th) were the next Cougar finishers across the line.\u00a0 Rounding out the scorers were Emma Rutkowski (49th) and Risa Pollock (56th).<\/p>\n
Other Cougars competing were Kylee Bagley (65th), Kathryn Wray (92nd), Chloe Boroff (96th), Kaileigh Gentry (101st), Michaella Johnson (115th), Hannah Kraner (124th), Nykee Billingham (125th), Victoria Etzler (127th), Allison Hauter (130th), and Courtney Sanderson (135th).<\/p>\n
On the boys\u2019 side, Thane Cowan was the top Cougar harrier with a fifth place finish in 11:31.\u00a0 Blake Henry led the Cougar pack with an 11th place finish, followed by Stephen Hamblett (18th), Max Sealscott (21st), and Michael Etter (29th).\u00a0 Kyle Spray (61st) and Korey Oechsle (70th) rounded out the scorers.\u00a0 Also running for the Van Wert squad were Gage Chiles (80th), Zac Tomlinson (98th), Anthony Borack (104th), Noah Carter (146th), Brayden Cox (155th), Noah Brubaker (156th), David Maurer (163rd), and Noah Arend (174th).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
VWMS cross country news OTTAWA — Saturday\u2019s cool conditions was a good omen for the Van Wert Middle School cross country teams at the Ottawa-Glandorf Blue\/Gold Cross Country Invitational, with the boys\u2019 and girls\u2019 teams recording 29 season-best times. In the overall team standings, the Lady Cougars were meet champions out of 13 teams and […]<\/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-43072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-19 05:18:06","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\/43072","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=43072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}