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Delaware State Parks squad wins Lifeguard Olympics

Hunter Jones of the Dewey Beach Patrol runs the anchor leg of the 4x200 soft sand sprint relay. The Dewey team of Jones, Mikey Frederick, CJ Fritchman and Austin Rhue took first place. DAN COOK PHOTOS
Dan Cook
August 3, 2023

The Delaware State Parks Beach Patrol took top honors at the the 46th annual Rehoboth Beach Patrol Lifeguard Olympics held July 27 on the Baltimore Avenue beach.

Events contested were landline (two females and two males per team), mile run, half-mile paddle, half-mile swim, 4-by-200 soft sand sprint relay, run-swim-run relay (four swimmers, one female), paddleboard rescue race, iron man medley (swim-run-paddle, one female), beach flags (one competitor per patrol) and a six-person tug-of-war.

Bethany Beach Patrol placed second, and coming in third was Rehoboth. Fourth place was garnered by Middlesex, Ocean City came in fifth, Sea Colony took sixth and Dewey Beach took seventh. North Shores placed eighth with North Bethany taking ninth, and tying for 10th place were Sussex Shores and Fenwick Island.

Emerson Moore pulls for the Rehoboth Beach Patrol landline competitors.
Lexi Planinsek of Delaware State Parks competes in the mile run. She placed fourth in the event.
Rehoboth Beach Patrol’s Konner Knarr, left, takes a slim victory over Dewey’s CJ Fritchman in the beach flags competition.
Winning the landline competition for Rehoboth Beach Patrol are (l-r) Emerson Moore, Josh Walker, Anna McDermott and Peyton Weaver.
Suzanna Mills from the Delaware State Parks squad leaves the ocean in the half-mile swim. She placed second in the event.
Duncan Proxmire competes in the men’s half-mile swim.
Brynn Crandell of Middlesex Beach Patrol wins the women’s mile run.
Declan Burke of Middlesex Beach Patrol finished first in the mile run.
Rehoboth Beach Patrol’s Meredith Lockwood runs to second place in the mile.
Rawley Florax, left, and Jodi Johnson of Rehoboth Beach Patrol finish fifth in the paddleboard rescue race.
Sanne Elling of North Bethany Beach Patrol leaves the surf in the iron man medley.
Bethany Beach Patrol members (l-r) Themo Rigakos, Jon Matta, Bella Scharp and Logan Rohde finish second in the landline competition.
LB Harrington of Dewey Beach Patrol takes off in the half-mile paddleboard race.
Matt Norris, right, and Hannah Cope from Ocean City Beach Patrol pull hard in the tug-of-war competition. OCBP won the finals over Bethany Beach Patrol.
The competition is close in the iron man medley.
The women’s mile run takes off from Baltimore Avenue.
The 4x200 soft sand sprint was won Dewey Beach Patrol’s (l-r) Austin Rhue, Hunter Jones, CJ Fritchman and Mikey Frederick.
A crowded field takes to the surf in the half-mile paddleboard event.
Competitors take to the surf in the landline event.

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Dan has worked for the Cape Gazette for more than 30 years as a photographer and reporter, covering high school sports and happenings around eastern Sussex County. He won a photography award from the National Newspaper Association, and numerous awards from the Maryland, Delaware, D.C. Press Association. A Delaware native, Dan graduated from Cape in 1972 and returned as a teacher and coach in the 1980s. He retired from the classroom in 2016. He was inducted into Cape High’s Legends Stadium in 2016. In his spare time, Dan enjoys spending time with his wife, two sons, grandchildren and dogs. 

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