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Woody White is a
senior partner with
Woody White
White & Hearne, L.L.P., a general
practice, criminal and personal injury law
firm in Wilmington. Since 1994, Woody
has focused on representing defendants
charged with serious criminal offenses, as
well as plaintiffs who have been victims of
negligence or abusive conduct. Woody is
a Board Certified Specialist in State and
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The leadership experience
the Coast Guard with me.”
As a powerful afternoon thunder-storm
made its way onto the beach one
summer day in 2005, Schreckengost
and a fellow lifeguard carried a fam-ily’s
wheelchair-bound grandmother
to safety from the beach near Johnnie
Mercer’s Pier. With most of the
beachgoers cleared from the strand,
Schreckengost returned to the ocean
rescue truck to hook up the trailer that
carried the squad’s ATV.
“I was trying to get the trailer
hooked up to the truck and I just hap-pened
to be in the right place at the
right time,” she says. “Lightening hit
the ground and came right through me
because I was touching metal. It felt
like a Charlie horse on my whole body;
it froze up all of my muscles.”
Schreckengost says she was trans-ported
to the fire station where Baker
and the rest of the team worked dili-gently
to stabilize her condition. She
credits Baker with saving her life.
Now, having seen some of the top
ocean rescue squads around the nation,
she believes that WBOR is one of the
best.
“It is definitely one of the premiere
ocean rescue squads in the United
States … compared to California and
Hawaii … and that is a big compli-ment.
Dave has done a fantastic job
there. That whole place has been trans-formed
— the improvements, from the
lifeguard stands to the trucks to the Jet
Ski, adding stands, adding personnel —
it has come so far.”
In addition to serving as an ocean
rescue leader, Schreckengost also proved
to be an effective recruiter, convincing
her UNCW track teammate Eric
Templeton to follow her advice to try out.
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