VW swim team information<\/i><\/p>\n
DEFIANCE — The Cougar boys\u2019 and girls\u2019 swim teams traveled to Defiance for the annual Western Buckeye League Championships involving all 10 member schools. The Van Wert boys took fifth place, while the girls finished eighth.<\/p>\n
Wapakoneta took first place in both the boys\u2019 and girls\u2019 championships, with Lima Shawnee runner-up for the boys and Ottawa-Glandorf runner-up in the girls\u2019 events. Other schools participating (in order of finish in the boys\u2019 standings) were Celina, Ottawa-Glandorf, Defiance, Elida, Kenton, Lima Bath, and St Marys.<\/p>\n
Highlights of the boys\u2019 day included Sam Easley earning a sixth place finish in the 100-yard butterfly. Easley also earned a ninth place finish in the 200-yard freestyle.<\/p>\n
Also scoring for the Cougars were Kory Schlatter in the 500-yard freestyle and the 100-yard backstroke, Dalton Heppeard in the 200-yard freestyle, Josh Overholt in the 100-yard freestyle and 100-yard breaststroke, Nathan Ireland in the 100-yard freestyle, Tyler Rex in the 50-yard freestyle and 100-yard freestyle, and Cade Fleming in the 200-yard individual medley and 100-yard breaststroke.<\/p>\n
The girls scored in all but one event. Scoring for the Lady Cougars were Hannah Stemen in the 200-yard freestyle and 100-yard backstroke, Katie Trittschuh in the 200-yard freestyle and 100-yard backstroke, Trittschuh in the 100-yard freestyle and 100-yard backstroke, Peyton Fleming in the 50-yard freestyle and 100-yard breaststroke, Meagan Jacobs in the 500-yard freestyle, Madison Turnwald in the 100-yard freestyle, Emma Verville in the 100-yard backstroke, and Bethany Fast in the 200-yard individual medley and 100-yard breaststroke.<\/p>\n
Two boys\u2019 relay teams also scored. The best finishes were fourth place by the 200-yard freestyle relay (Easley, Fleming, Overholt and Rex), and fifth in the 200-yard medley relay (Rex, Fleming, Easley, Overholt).<\/p>\n
All three girls\u2019 relay teams scored. The best finish was recorded by the 400-yard freestyle, with Trittschuh, Turnwald, Fleming, and Stemen taking fifth place. The 200-yard medley relay, with Stemen, Fast, Fleming, and Trittschuh, claimed seventh place.\u00a0 The 200-yard freestyle relay team took ninth place; members were Fast, Chloe Brake, Mackenzie Agler, and Turnwald.<\/p>\n
The next meet for the Cougars will be the OHSAA sectional tournament at Ayersville High School on February 14.<\/p>\n
Girls Results <\/b>(all distances in yards)<\/i><\/p>\n
200 Medley Relay:\u00a0 7th<\/sup> (2:11.12 \u2013Hannah Stemen, Bethany Fast, Peyton Fleming, Katie Trittschuh)<\/p>\n 200 Freestyle:\u00a0 8th<\/sup> (2:16.11 – Hannah Stemen), 18th<\/sup> (2:32.49 \u2013Madison Turnwald), 19th<\/sup> (2:34.59 \u2013 Olivia Profit), 20th<\/sup> (2:37.61 \u2013Haley Richardson)<\/p>\n 200 Individual Medley:\u00a0 13th<\/sup> (2:44.41 \u2013Bethany Fast), 21st<\/sup> (3:08.61 \u2013 Madison Pauquette), 22nd<\/sup> (3:14.50 \u2013Olivia Mengerink)<\/p>\n 50 Freestyle:\u00a0 16th<\/sup> (29.27 \u2013Peyton Fleming), 25th<\/sup> (31.46\u2013Mackenzie Agler), 26th<\/sup> (31.58 \u2013Jaycie Rickard), 27th<\/sup> (32.31 \u2013Chloe Brake)<\/p>\n 100 Butterfly:\u00a0 22nd<\/sup> (1:35.30 \u2013Olivia Mengerink)<\/p>\n 100 Freestyle:\u00a0 10th<\/sup> (1:05.49 \u2013Katie Trittschuh), 13th<\/sup> (1:07.09 \u2013Madison Turnwald), 20th<\/sup> (1:11.05 \u2013Jaycie Rickard), 21st<\/sup> (1:11.26\u2013Mackenzie Agler)<\/p>\n 500 Freestyle:\u00a0 16th<\/sup> (6:54.56 \u2013Meagan Jacobs), 17th<\/sup> \u2013 (6:55.03 \u2013Olivia Profit), 20th<\/sup> (7:04.93 \u2013Haley Richardson), 22nd<\/sup> (7:12.58 \u2013Jena Rex-LaRue)<\/p>\n 200 Freestyle Relay:\u00a0 9th<\/sup> (2:02.98 \u2013Bethany Fast, Chloe Brake, Mackenzie Agler, Madison Turnwald)<\/p>\n 100 Backstroke:\u00a0 8th<\/sup> (1:08.97 \u2013Hannah Stemen), 14th<\/sup> (1:16.42 \u2013Katie Trittschuh), 16th<\/sup> (1:19.98 \u2013Emma Verville), 20th<\/sup> (1:23.28-Chloe Brake)<\/p>\n 100 Breaststroke:\u00a0 12th<\/sup> (1:22.06 \u2013Bethany Fast) 16th<\/sup> (1:23.71 \u2013Peyton Fleming), 21st<\/sup> \u2013 (1:28.44 \u2013Rebekah Fast), 27th<\/sup> (1:37.42 \u2013Madison Pauquette)<\/p>\n 400 Freestyle Relay:\u00a0 5th<\/sup> (4:19.63 – Katie Trittschuh, Madison Turnwald, Peyton Fleming, Hannah Stemen)<\/p>\n Boys Results <\/b>(all distances in yards)<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n 200 Medley Relay:\u00a0 5th<\/sup> (1:54.13 \u2013 Tyler Rex, Cade Fleming, Sam Easley, Josh Overholt)<\/p>\n 200 Freestyle:\u00a0 9th<\/sup> (2:02.44 \u2013 Sam Easley), 15th<\/sup> (2:28.05 \u2013Dalton Heppeard), 17th<\/sup> (2:30.55\u2013 Joe Linser), 23rd<\/sup> (2:50.24 \u2013Stephen Hamblett)<\/p>\n 200 Individual Medley:\u00a0 12th<\/sup> (2:35.54 \u2013Cade Fleming)<\/p>\n 50 Freestyle: 5th<\/sup> (24.68 \u2013 Tyler Rex), 18th<\/sup> (27.69 \u2013Nathan Ireland), 25th<\/sup> (30.12 \u2013Dalton Heppeard), 30th<\/sup> (31.52 \u2013Brayden Cox)<\/p>\n 100 Butterfly: 6th<\/sup> (59.78 – Sam Easley)<\/p>\n 100 Freestyle: 6th<\/sup> (56.08 \u2013Tyler Rex), 7th<\/sup> (57.12\u2013Josh Overholt), 10th<\/sup> (1:01.35\u2013Nathan Ireland), 18th<\/sup> (1:06.25\u2013Joe Linser)<\/p>\n 500 Freestyle: 11th<\/sup> (6:15.65 \u2013Kory Schlatter)<\/p>\n 200 Freestyle Relay:\u00a0 4th<\/sup> (1:38.33 \u2013 Sam Easley, Cade Fleming, Josh Overholt, Tyler Rex)<\/p>\n 100 Backstroke:\u00a0 9th<\/sup> (1:08.94 \u2013Kory Schlatter), 21st<\/sup> (1:27.16 \u2013Brayden Cox)<\/p>\n 100 Breaststroke: 8th<\/sup> (1:13.49 \u2013Cade Fleming), 11th<\/sup> (1:16.59 \u2013Josh Overholt), 22nd<\/sup> (1:34.54 \u2013Stephen Hamblett)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" VW swim team information DEFIANCE — The Cougar boys\u2019 and girls\u2019 swim teams traveled to Defiance for the annual Western Buckeye League Championships involving all 10 member schools. 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