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OCBP Places Four in Around-the-Island Paddle
Four Ocean City Beach Patrol members place in the Top 10 in the Dean Randazzo Cancer Foundation Paddle for a Cause.
Graham Parker took some time off between coaching Ocean City's age-group swim team, working the Ocean City Beach Patrol and attending graduate school to win a 22.5-mile paddleboard race on Sunday.
Parker, 25, won the Dean Randazzo Cancer Foundation's Paddle for a Cause. The race included 65 people on paddleboards or stand-up paddlers racing around Absecon Island. Parker completed the course in four hours, 26 minutes.
The race is named for a local surfing legend who is battling Hodgkin's lymphoma, and proceeds benefit cancer research.
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Parker is coach of the Ocean City C-Cerpants team and is studying for a graduate degree in special education at St. Leo University.
Three of Parker's beach patrol colleagues also placed in the paddleboard division. Dan Callahan was fourth, Tony Mehalic sixth and Andrew Carter seventh.
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