{"id":7662,"date":"2026-01-02T11:36:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T16:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bryansports.com\/bryanbuilt\/?p=7662"},"modified":"2026-01-02T11:36:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T16:36:06","slug":"bryan-delivers-strong-showing-at-bluffton-holiday-invitational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bryansports.com\/bryanbuilt\/bryan-delivers-strong-showing-at-bluffton-holiday-invitational\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryan Delivers Strong Showing at Bluffton Holiday Invitational"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"165\" data-end=\"397\">Bryan turned in an impressive all-around performance at the 2025 Bluffton Holiday Invitational on December 30 at the Lima Family YMCA, highlighted by a championship finish on the boys side and a strong top-four showing from the girls.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"399\" data-end=\"806\">The Bryan boys put together a consistent, event-by-event effort to capture <strong data-start=\"472\" data-end=\"495\">first place overall<\/strong>, finishing with <strong data-start=\"512\" data-end=\"526\">317 points<\/strong> to edge out a deep field that included Findlay and Lima Shawnee. The title reflected Bryan&#8217;s balance across both individual races and relays, as the Golden Bears piled up points throughout the meet and closed strong to secure the team victory.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"808\" data-end=\"1175\">On the girls side, Bryan remained in contention all day and finished <strong data-start=\"875\" data-end=\"909\">fourth overall with 194 points<\/strong>, narrowly missing the podium in a tightly packed team race. The Bears stayed competitive across all strokes and distances, holding off several challengers and finishing just one point ahead of Versailles in the final standings.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1177\" data-end=\"1406\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Taken together, the results marked a successful holiday meet for Bryan, with the boys claiming a team championship and the girls continuing to establish themselves among the area\u2019s top programs heading into the heart of the season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Individual Highlights:<\/strong> Bryan picked up several top-five finishes throughout the meet, led by <strong>Nora Kunsman<\/strong>, who won the <strong>100 freestyle<\/strong> and placed second in the <strong>200 freestyle<\/strong>. On the boys side, <strong>Logan Slattery<\/strong> finished runner-up in the <strong>200 IM<\/strong>, while <strong>Joshua Sampson<\/strong> took second in the <strong>200 freestyle<\/strong>. Bryan also showed strength in relays, with the <strong>girls 200 medley relay<\/strong> and <strong>girls 200 freestyle relay<\/strong> both finishing second, and the <strong>boys 200 medley<\/strong> and <strong>boys 200 freestyle relays<\/strong> each placing third, helping fuel a strong overall team performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Bryan turned in an impressive all-around performance at the 2025 Bluffton Holiday Invitational on December 30 at the Lima Family YMCA, highlighted by a championship finish on the boys side and a strong top-four showing <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bryansports.com\/bryanbuilt\/bryan-delivers-strong-showing-at-bluffton-holiday-invitational\/\" title=\"Bryan Delivers Strong Showing at Bluffton Holiday Invitational\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-swimming-and-diving"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pac8aw-1ZA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryansports.com\/bryanbuilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryansports.com\/bryanbuilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryansports.com\/bryanbuilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryansports.com\/bryanbuilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryansports.com\/bryanbuilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bryansports.com\/bryanbuilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryansports.com\/bryanbuilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryansports.com\/bryanbuilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryansports.com\/bryanbuilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}