Rehoboth Beach Patrol hosted the 44th annual Lifeguard Olympics July 29. A total of 11 teams from Delaware and Maryland battled it out on the beach at Baltimore Avenue, and when the flying sand settled, the Middlesex team took the victory and bragging rights for the 2021 summer.
Events included the landline rescue race, one-mile run, half-mile paddle, half-mile swim, 4-by-200 soft sand sprint relay, run-swim-run, paddleboard rescue race, iron man medley, beach flags and the six-person tug-of-war.
Ocean City Beach Patrol and Middlesex Beach Patrol tied for the championship, so bragging rights were determined by a game of rock, paper, scissors.











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.