{"id":607,"date":"2010-12-31T14:00:59","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T21:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=607"},"modified":"2010-12-31T14:01:11","modified_gmt":"2010-12-31T21:01:11","slug":"vw-swimmers-compete-in-lima-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2010\/12\/31\/vw-swimmers-compete-in-lima-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"VW swimmers compete in Lima meet"},"content":{"rendered":"

\ufeffSANDRA GROOMS\/<\/strong>independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n

The Cougar swim teams traveled to Lima YMCA for the annual Lima Holiday Invitational involving 18 teams. The boys took seventh place overall while the girls finished 13. Lima Shawnee took first place for both boys and girls. Other schools participating included Coldwater, Versailles, Ottawa-Glandorf, New Bremen, Lima Central Catholic, Kenton, Lima Bath, Minster, Fort Recovery, Lima Senior, St. Marys Memorial, Botkins, Russia, Marion Local and Elida.<\/p>\n

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Eric Easley swims the breaststroke at the Lima Holiday Tournament. Photo by Mark Robenalt for the Van Wert independent<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Eric Easley was the only medal winner for VWHS with a third place finish in the 100-yard breaststroke. He also finished in sixth <\/sup>place in the 200-yard individual medley.<\/p>\n

Other scorers for the Cougar boys were Trey Stemen, eighth in the 200-yard individual medley and 13th in the 100-yard backstroke; AJ Foster, 14th in the 50-yard freestyle and 15th in the 100-yard freestyle; Adam Saylor, 16th in the 100-yard freestyle; Matt Cucciarre, 11th in the 500-yard freestyle; and Cody Hanes, 14th in the 100-yard backstroke.<\/p>\n

Scoring for the Van Wert girls were Taylor Grooms, ninth in the 200-yard and 11th in the 500-yard freestyles; Erin Dingle, 14th in both the 200-yard and 500-yard freestyles; and Brittany Jurczyk, 14th in the 100-yard backstroke.<\/p>\n

Both boys 400-yard freestyle relay teams scored: Stemen, Hanes, Saylor and Easley finished fifth and Kase Schalois, Daniel Silette, Jacob Scheidt, and Nathan Profit finished 16th. The 200-yard medley relay team scored 12. Members include Hanes, Stemen, Easley, and Saylor. The 200-yard freestyle relay team of Silette, Cucciarre, Schalois, and Foster finished 16th.<\/p>\n

The 400-yard freestyle girls relay with Dingle, Jurczyk, Karlyn Koontz, and Grooms took 12th place. The 200-yard medley relay team took 14th place. Members were Jurczyk, Alex Czajkowski, Grooms and Dingle.<\/p>\n

Girls Results (all distances in yards)<\/strong><\/p>\n

200 Medley Relay:\u00a0 14th<\/sup> (2:14.05 \u2013 Brittany Jurczyk, Erin Dingle, Alex Czajkowski, Taylor Grooms), 29th<\/sup> (2:32.99 \u2013 Holly Hammond, Rebecca Johnson, Courtney Smith, Linzey Rice)<\/p>\n

200 Freestyle:\u00a0 9th<\/sup> (2:16.78 \u2013 Taylor Grooms), 14th<\/sup> (2:22.63 \u2013Erin Dingle)<\/p>\n

200 Individual Medley:\u00a0 24th<\/sup> (2:59.24 – Karlyn Koontz), 26th<\/sup> (3:07.81 \u2013 Alex Czajkowski)<\/p>\n

50 Freestyle: 43rd<\/sup> (31.79 \u2013 Linzey Rice), 45th<\/sup> (32.05 \u2013 Holly Hammond) 69th<\/sup> (34.48- Laney Ellzey), 76th<\/sup> (35.28 \u2013 Andi Foster, 80th<\/sup> (35.97 \u2013 Reed Wermer), 101st<\/sup> (38.91 \u2013 Courtney Smith), 118th<\/sup> (44.16 \u2013 Ann Warkentin)<\/p>\n

100 Freestyle: 22nd<\/sup> (1:07.78 \u2013 Brittany Jurczyk), 42nd<\/sup> (1:14.46- Karlyn Koontz), 44th<\/sup> (1:14.74 \u2013 Linzey Rice),\u00a0 68th ( 1:20.00 \u2013 Andi Foster), 69th<\/sup> (1:22.20 \u2013 Laney Ellzey<\/p>\n

500 Freestyle: 11th<\/sup> (6:21.33 \u2013 Taylor Grooms), 14th<\/sup> (6:30.63 \u2013 Erin Dingle)<\/p>\n

200 Freestyle Relay:\u00a0 17th<\/sup> (2:10.47 \u2013 Karlyn Koontz, Holly Hammond, Rebecca Johnson, Linzey Rice), 24th (2:30.23 \u2013 Andi Foster, Reed Wermer, Courtney Smith, Linzey Ellzey)<\/p>\n

100 Backstroke:\u00a0 14th<\/sup> (1:15.01 \u2013 Brittany Jurczyk), 24th<\/sup> (1:20.81 \u2013 Rebecca Johnson), 25th<\/sup> (1:22.54 \u2013 Holly Hammond)<\/p>\n

100 Breaststroke:\u00a0 36th<\/sup> (1:29.63 \u2013 Alex Czajkowski), 57th<\/sup> (1:46.38-Reed Wermer), 62nd<\/sup> (1:52.16 – Courtney Smith)<\/p>\n

400 Freestyle Relay:\u00a0 12th<\/sup> (4:34.41 \u2013 Brittany Jurczyk, Karlyn Koontz, Erin Dingle, Taylor Grooms), 25th<\/sup> (5:20.93 \u2013 Andi Foster, Rebecca Johnson, Reed Wermer, Laney Ellzey)<\/p>\n

Boys Results (all distances in yards)<\/strong><\/p>\n

200 Medley Relay:\u00a0 12th<\/sup> (1:56.85 \u2013 Cody Hanes, Trey Stemen, Eric Easley, Adam Saylor)<\/p>\n

200 Freestyle: 18th <\/sup>(2:14.63 \u2013 Matt Cucciarre)<\/p>\n

200 Individual Medley: 6th<\/sup> (2:13.69 \u2013 Eric Easley), 8th<\/sup> (2:19.56 \u2013 Trey Stemen)<\/p>\n

50 Freestyle: 14th (25.54 \u2013 A.J. Foster), 17th<\/sup> (25.81 \u2013 Adam Saylor), 31st<\/sup> (27.31 \u2013 Vincent Silette), 47th<\/sup> (29.32- Nathan Profit), 55th (30.08 – Daniel Silette), 74th<\/sup> (32.38 \u2013 Jacob Scheidt)<\/p>\n

100 Freestyle: 15th (59.00 \u2013 A.J. Foster), 16th<\/sup> (59.11 \u2013 Adam Saylor), 23rd<\/sup> (1:01.48 – Kase Schalois), 32th<\/sup> (1:05.27 \u2013 Vincent Silette), 40th<\/sup> (1:07.48 \u2013 Shane Robenalt), 41st<\/sup> (1:07.48 \u2013 Nathan Profit), 52nd<\/sup> (1:11.56 – Daniel Silette), 63rd<\/sup> (1:16.70 \u2013 Jacob Scheidt)<\/p>\n

500 Freestyle: 11th<\/sup> (6:09.44 \u2013 Matt Cucciarre)<\/p>\n

200 Freestyle Relay: 16th<\/sup> (1:48.58 \u2013 Kase Schalois, AJ Foster, Vincent Silette, Matt Cucciarre)<\/p>\n

100 Backstroke: 13th<\/sup> (1:05.17 \u2013 Trey Stemen), 14th<\/sup> (1:05:17 \u2013 Cody Hanes), 20th<\/sup> (1:12.24 \u2013 Kase Schalois)<\/p>\n

100 Breaststroke: 3rd<\/sup> (1:06.19 \u2013 Eric Easley), 17th<\/sup> (1:16.14 \u2013 Cody Hanes), 28th<\/sup> (1:23.20 \u2013Shane Robenalt)<\/p>\n

400 Freestyle Relay: 5th<\/sup> (3:59.33 \u2013 Cody Hanes, Trey Stemen, Adam Saylor, Eric Easley), 16th<\/sup> (4:41.39 \u2013 Daniel Silette, Jacob Scheidt, Nathan Profit, Kase Schalois)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\ufeffSANDRA GROOMS\/independent sports The Cougar swim teams traveled to Lima YMCA for the annual Lima Holiday Invitational involving 18 teams. The boys took seventh place overall while the girls finished 13. Lima Shawnee took first place for both boys and girls. Other schools participating included Coldwater, Versailles, Ottawa-Glandorf, New Bremen, Lima Central Catholic, Kenton, Lima […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 01:22:18","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\/607","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=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}