{"id":49906,"date":"2014-03-25T05:40:31","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T10:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=49906"},"modified":"2014-03-25T05:41:17","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T10:41:17","slug":"vw-cheerleaders-have-awards-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2014\/03\/25\/vw-cheerleaders-have-awards-program\/","title":{"rendered":"VWHS cheerleaders receive recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>VWHS cheerleading information<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The Van Wert High School cheerleaders were honored at an awards program held in the VWHS commons immediately following their state competition on March 16.\u00a0 The squad traveled to Bowling Green State University early Sunday morning to compete in the OASSA State Cheerleading and Dance competition, where they ranked 18th in the state in the Division II Non-Mount category.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Grace Hammons was honored with a senior clock for her service to the varsity and junior varsity cheer squads. She was also presented with a scrapbook made by her fellow cheerleaders to capture the memories of her 2013-2014 season.<\/p>\n<p>Six cheerleaders were awarded with their varsity letters. The third-year letter winner was senior Grace Hammons.\u00a0 Second-year varsity letter winners included juniors Lauren Eikenbary and Liz Keirns. First-year letter winners included junior Maekenzie Alba, sophomore Katelyn Welch and freshman Hannah Mengerink.Tiffany Ricketts was presented a Varsity letter for participating as the Winter Sports Mascot.<\/p>\n<p>Special awards were given as well, with \u201cMost Valuable\u201d going to Grace Hammons, \u201cMost Spirited\u201d to Liz Keirns and \u201cMost Improved\u201d to Madeline Rogers. Katelyn Welch received the Coach\u2019s Award.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Bell commended the cheerleaders for their hard work and \u201cCougar pride\u201d that took them all the way to the state competition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/VWHS-Winter-Cheer-team-photo-13-14.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49907\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"VWHS Winter Cheer team photo 13-14\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/VWHS-Winter-Cheer-team-photo-13-14.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>VWHS cheerleaders for 2013-2014 include (front row, from the left)<i> <\/i>Madeline Rogers, Katelyn Welch, Sarah Vogt, Kennedy Mercer, Kaylen Brown, Taylor Lamb;<i> <\/i>(back row)<i> <\/i>Coach Bell, Tiffany Ricketts, Grace Hammons, Maekenzie Alba, Lauren Eikenbary, Liz Keirns, Hannah Mengerink, Taylor Peebles.<\/strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/VWHS-Cheer-Scholar-Athletes-13-14.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49908\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"VWHS Cheer Scholar Athletes 13-14\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/VWHS-Cheer-Scholar-Athletes-13-14.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"286\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>VWHS cheerleader scholar-athletes are (front row, from the left) Grace Hammons, Maekenzie Alba, Katelyn Welch, Kaylen Brown; (back row) Lauren Eikenbary, Liz Keirns, Sarah Vogt, Hannah Mengerink, Tiffany Ricketts.<\/b> <i>(VWCS photos)<\/i><b><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VWHS cheerleading information The Van Wert High School cheerleaders were honored at an awards program held in the VWHS commons immediately following their state competition on March 16.\u00a0 The squad traveled to Bowling Green State University early Sunday morning to compete in the OASSA State Cheerleading and Dance competition, where they ranked 18th in the [&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-49906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 15:38:00","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\/49906","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=49906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}