Last night in Ship Bottom, the Ocean City Beach Patrol’s thirteen-man team won the Ship Bottom Lifeguard Invitational (Jack Donlon Memorial Race). Of the seven events, the OCBP team won three – the 3-person swim relay, the 3-team doubles relay and the Iron Man Relay. Those three winning relay teams included Swimmer Quinn Cassidy and runner/doubles rower Eddie Keenan – who happen to be third generation lifeguards, first cousins, and competing together on the OCBP team for the first time. Ed Keenan Sr. was a guard in the 50’s; Eddie Keenan Jr was a guard from ’79-’86; and Sid Cassidy, who married Ed Sr.’s daughter Kara Keenan, was a guard in the late ‘70s, and was quite the swimmer himself.
Other members of the OCBP were:
Paddlers: Brian Warley, Andrew Shaw and Tony Mohalic
Rowers: Matt Garbutt, Ryan Clark, Ryan Dunn, Shannon Theis, Jackson Kirk, Eddie Keenan
Swimmers: Quinn Cassidy, Glen Lasco, Brian McGrorty
