Ed Keenan to be in Atlantic City Boxing Hall of Fame
Ocean City media specialist has worked over 70 fights, has tales to tell By DAVID NAHAN/Sentinel staff OCEAN CITY – Ocean City’s Ed Keenan knows the top boxers and has great stories to tell about what goes on outside the ring as well as inside. The media specialist has been helping promote fights for decades, […]
Longport wins 5th S.J. Lifeguard title in a row
SCROLL DOWN FOR A FULL GALLERY This year was a battle to the finish; Sea Isle second, Margate third By DAVID NAHAN/Sentinel staff LONGPORT – The Longport Beach Patrol defended its South Jersey Lifeguard Championship Friday night – its fifth win in a row – but it wasn’t easy. The rowers and swimmers from the other […]
Looking up at Bill Howarth
SCROLL DOWN TO SEE A FULL GALLERY OF THE RACE Ventnor lifeguards win final women’s race of the summer in honor of their late captain By DAVID NAHAN/Sentinel staff VENTNOR – Whether Bill Howarth was looking down from heaven last week on the female athletes he mentored for decades is a question left to theologians. […]
Beesleys Point boy, 15, is competing at USA Waterski Championship
BEESLEYS POINT – Zac Fosbenner, 15, of Beesleys Point, will compete in the 79th Goode USA Waterski National Championship on Aug. 11 in Wilmington, Ill. in the boys 4 division, (U16) slalom event. Fosbenner was third at the Eastern Region Waterski Championship July 23. This will his third Nationals competition. He has been competing since age […]
LBP wins 4 of 5 events to take Dutch Hoffman title
SCROLL DOWN FOR A FULL GALLERY In friendly rivalry among swimmers, EHT grad Tepper tops OCHS grad Grisbaum By DAVID NAHAN/Sentinel staff WILDWOOD – Although some of the races were close at Friday night’s 2021 Dutch Hoffman Memorial Lifeguard Championship, the outcome was not. The Longport Beach Patrol won four of the five events to […]
Women rise to the challenge in Cape May Point
SCROLL DOWN FOR A FULL GALLERY Jenna Parker wins her fifth title, tops field of 50 lifeguards in run, paddle, swim By JACK FICHTER/Sentinel staff CAPE MAY POINT – She did it again. Harvey Cedars lifeguard Jenna Parker took first place for the fifth time in the Cape May Point Women’s Lifeguard Challenge. Parker turned […]
Lifeguards test skills at O.C. Women’s Invitational
SCROLL DOWN FOR A FULL GALLERY Longport Beach Patrol edges out Cape May, Brigantine for 2021 title By DAVID NAHAN/Sentinel staff OCEAN CITY – The Ocean City Beach Patrol Women’s Invitational is designed to test a range of lifeguarding skills – swimming, paddle boarding, rowing, racing into the surf and team events to show how […]
Finding a community in open-ocean racing
By DAVID NAHAN/Sentinel staff OCEAN CITY – For a lot of the swimmers who came out to Saturday’s T. John Carey Master’s Swim, running off the beach and heading out into the open ocean together is being part of a community. The 2021 one-mile swim started at the 42nd Street beach in Ocean City and […]
OCHS grads Grisbaum, Teofanova win Master’s Swim
By DAVID NAHAN/Sentinel staff OCEAN CITY – New Ocean City High School graduate Dolan Grisbaum won Saturday’s one-mile open-ocean Master’s Swim – the middle event in three days of competitions for him – and fellow OCHS grad Andrea Teofanova finished as the fastest woman in the race. Grisbaum, 17, of Ocean City, is a 2021 […]
Lifeguards happy to return to racing
Longport wins women’s invitational; Ventnor second, Ocean City third By DAVID NAHAN Sentinel staff LONGPORT – The home beach patrol dominated the Longport Women’s Lifeguard Invitational Wednesday, July 7, but to many of the competitors, they were all winners because they were back to racing after being denied that chance in the summer of 2020 […]