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Lifesaving skills on display at 44th USLA Mid-Atlantic Regional

Cape Region lifeguards battle heat, current and each other for glory
Rehoboth Beach Patrol lifeguards Will Shoemaker, left, and Greg Mathe carry in Cole Jennings during the 44th Annual Mid-Atlantic United States Lifesaving Association Regional competition July 9. AARON R. MUSHRUSH PHOTOS
Aaron R. Mushrush
July 14, 2025

Sections of Rehoboth Beach were closed July 9, but plenty of folks were running on the sand and splashing into the water at Baltimore Avenue. 

For the 44th year, the United States Lifesaving Association Mid-Atlantic Regionals were held, this time in front of the new Rehoboth Beach Patrol headquarters.

Lifeguards from RBP, Dewey Beach Patrol and Delaware State Parks represented the Cape Region and did very well. DSP took first overall with 43 participants racking up 716 points, while RBP’s 29 guards tallied 304 points to claim second. DBP’s 35 athletes finished seventh and scored 126 points.

DSP’s Elizabeth Fry finished atop the women’s leaderboard with 70 points. Teammate Amy Venables grabbed third with 47.5 points. RBP’s top points earner was Sophia Gulotti, who finished fourth with 46.70 points. Rowan O’ Donoghue collected 38 points and slotted in at sixth. Madelynn McTeer’s 35 points and Meredith Lockwood’s 33.250 were good for eighth and 10th place, respectively. 

It was a good day for DSP, as Coleman Woodard’s 48.75 points were the high mark for the men. His teammate Duncan Proxmire wasn’t too far behind with 48 points in second place. The ageless Bailey Noel put up 35.5 points to possess the seventh spot. Isiah Brittingham rounded out the top 10 with 36.75 points.

DBP’s Kolbe Green’s 27.5 points earned the lad ninth.

DSP winners

Elizabeth Fry – women's surf race, run-swim-run

Fry, Amy Venables, Hailey Moore and Makenzie Gorman – team rescue race

Maura Lenhart – 2K beach run

Venables, Moore, Jessica Tyndall and Rachel Kline – 4-by-90-meter relay

Fry and Madelynn McTeer – board rescue

Fry, Venables, Moore and Gorman – landline rescue

Isiah Brittingham – beach flags.

RBP winners

Sophia Gulotti – beach flags, 90-meter sprint.

DBP winners

CJ Fritchman, Hunter Jones, Kolbe Green and Lawson Whaley – 4-by-90-meter relay

Green – 90-meter sprint.

The women race into an abnormally warm Atlantic Ocean during the paddle rescue.
Elizabeth Brennan races into the surf during the paddle rescue. Brennan is from New Zealand and is spending the summer with the Rehoboth Beach Patrol.
Elizabeth Brennan, front, and Rowan O’Donoghue qualify for the final during the first paddle rescue heat.
Kolbe Green, right, celebrates his victory in the 90-meter final with fellow Dewey Beach Patrol lifeguard Hunter Jones.
Lifeguards battle a strong current that pulls the buoys and flags south.
Delaware State Parks lifeguards Coleman Woodard, left, and Josh McIntire finish the paddle rescue.
Madelynn McTeer carries Elizabeth Fry on her back as the Delaware State Parks lifeguards use a wave to come from behind.
Madelynn McTeer and Elizabeth Fry burst out of the foam to take first in the paddle rescue final.
Rehoboth Beach Patrol’s Dionn Stevenson carries Elizabeth Brennan with Maddie Tonn in support during the team rescue.
Dewey Beach Patrol lifeguards Meredith White, right, and Mary Keegan pull the line during the landline rescue.
Dewey Beach Patrol lifeguard CJ Fritchman, center, explodes toward the beach flags.
Rehoboth Beach Patrol’s Konner Knarr has a clean path to the flag others did not have.
Dewey Beach Patrol lifeguard Brady Schell hops into the chop during the landline rescue.
Dewey Beach Patrol lifeguard Davis Mault is brought to shore by Jason Kaiser, left, and Chris Conaway.
Isiah Brittingham took a leap from Rehoboth Beach Patrol to Delaware State Park blue this summer, but didn’t lose a step.
Rehoboth Beach Patrol Sgt. Meredith Lockwood performs a handstand.
Different strokes for different folks summarizes the initial dive into the ocean.
Rehoboth Beach Patrol’s Sophia Gulotti had a different gear in beach flags.
Rehoboth Beach Patrol’s Sophia Filipowski scampers out of the block in beach flags.
Konner Knarr and Kolbe Green sprint toward the beach flags.

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Aaron Mushrush joined the sports team in Summer 2023 to help cover the emerging youth athletics scene in the Cape Region. After lettering in soccer and lacrosse at Sussex Tech, he played lacrosse at Division III Eastern University in St. David's, PA. Aaron coached lacrosse at Sussex Tech in 2009 and 2011. Post-collegiately, Mush played in the Eastern Shore Summer Lacrosse League for Blue Bird Tavern and Saltwater Lacrosse. He competed in several tournaments for the Shamrocks Lacrosse Club, which blossomed into the Maryland Lacrosse League (MDLL). Aaron interned at the Coastal Point before becoming assistant director at WMDT-TV 47 ABC in 2017 and eventually assignment editor in 2018. 

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