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Lifeguard Regionals hit Rehoboth Beach

Frostburg State University wide receiver Kade Ramm, left, of Ocean City Beach Patrol leans out to win the 4-by-100 soft sand relay over Dewey Beach Patrol’s Nate Jones. DAN COOK PHOTOS
Dan Cook
July 14, 2017
Ocean City Beach Patrol member Liz Vanderclute wins the female 2K beach run.
Tyler Lawson from the Fenwick Island Beach Patrol wins the male 2K run.
Cape Henlopen grad Eddy Shoop comes in second for the Dewey Beach Patrol in the 2K beach run.
Chris Perreca, 54, ran the 2K beach run for the Delaware State Parks Beach Patrol.
Caesar Rodney grad Matt Matsko runs the soft sand relay for the Rehoboth Beach Patrol.
Cape grad Drew Mulcahy takes the handoff from Holden Wingate for the Middlesex Beach Patrol.
Cape grad Sam McMillon of the Dewey Beach Patrol sprints the second leg of the soft sand relay.
Winning the soft sand relay for the Dewey Beach Patrol were (l-r) Eddy Shoop, Katie Giles, and Josie and Casey Nixon.
Josie Nixon runs the anchor leg of the soft sand relay for the winning Dewey Beach Patrol.
The Ocean City soft sand relay team of (l-r) Christian Becker, Kade Ramm, Devon Lere and Alex Huffnagar took top honors at the USLA Atlantic Regionals.
The competitors take to the surf in the 400-meter swim.
A USLA official redirects the swimmers to the finish in the 400-meter swim.
Brad Alison of the Middlesex Beach Patrol comes in second in the 400-meter swim.
Ocean City Beach Patrol Sgt. Rick Cawthern is cheered on by his teammates in the 2K beach run at the USLA Mid-Atlantic Regionals at Rehoboth Beach. Cawthern took first place in his age group.
Carrying victim Dave Brady are Rehoboth Beach Patrol members Jacob Pangle, front, and Ryan Crowley in the swimmer rescue race.
Placing second in the 400-meter swim is Smith Point Beach Patrol member Emily Barrick.
Sydney Kriner of Delaware State Parks runs to seventh in the soft sand 2K.
The Rehoboth Beach Patrol team of Macey Nitchie, l, Lyndsay Taddei, Dani Blass and Taylor Grenier placed third in the swimmer rescue race .

Hot weather, hot sand and hot competition were all on the beach at Baltimore Avenue July 12, as the Rehoboth Beach Patrol hosted the annual U.S. Lifesaving Association Mid-Atlantic Regionals competition.

Events held were the 2K beach run, 400-meter surf swim, swimmer rescue race, landline rescue race, rescue board race, run-swim-run, 4-by-100 soft sand run relay, beach flags and surf dash.

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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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