Christian Castle Lifeguard Olympics History
July 29, 2025
The Christian Castle Lifeguard Olympics had its first competition in 2010 at Ascarate Pool with 19 teams competing. First Place Team was Northeast YMCA, Second Place was El Paso Parks Aquatics Chelsea Pool, Third Place was the Westside YMCA.
The event was named by Eddie and Laura Castle after Christian Castle, their 4 year old fatally drowned on August 11, 2006. In his memory this event brings water safety awareness to prevent drownings in the El Paso area. The Christian Castle Lifeguard Olympics was developed by the water safety community to showcase the challenging skills used daily by lifeguards to rescue adults and children.
This years Olympics has the largest ever 45 Lifeguard Teams from: City of El Paso(24), County Ascarate Pool(5), Wet N Wild Waterworld(3), El Paso Water Parks(6), YWCA(3), YMCA(1), and Ft. Bliss(3). The event will be held at Wet N Wild Waterworld on August 3, 2025 with Registration at 7:00 am and event beginning at 8:00am. At the conclusion of events awards will be presented to individual event winners and team trophies for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place teams presented by Miss Teen Lauren Hernandez and Miss El Paso Caitlyn Acevedo.
We would like to thank SPARTAN Construction for their generous donation for sponsoring this event. Others donating is our host Wet N Wild Waterworld, Drowning Prevention Coalition of EL Paso, Christian Castle Family, Maui Wowi Coffee & Smoothies inside Wet N Wild Park, and Public Health City of El Paso. This event also has many judges from the participating teams, numerous volunteers members of the Drowning Prevention Coalition that make this event fun, challenging and educational.
For more information go to www.dpcelpaso.org.
