BY MITCHELL NORTHAM
Staff Writer
Skateboards, bikes and Mountain Dew will be back at the beach this summer as the Dew Tour returns to Ocean City, Maryland for a fourth consecutive year.
The five-day event brought to Ocean City by Alli Sports, a division of NBC Sports Group, will kick off on June 25 with competitions, events and athlete meet and greets going into June 29. The complete schedule will be released in coming weeks but will feature park, vert and street session competitions for BMX and skateboards.
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the Dew Tour Beach Championships, and Ocean City Mayor Rick Meehan is happy to have the event back in his town.
“We are thrilled to once again play host to the Dew Tour and welcome the amazing athletes to our beach,” Meehan said. “Each year this event gets better and better and we are looking forward to a fantastic 2014 Dew Tour in Ocean City.”
President of Alli Sports Eric Grilly is excited for the event to return to Ocean City too, as the event has typically drawn record crowds to the Eastern Shore.
“The continued support of the city for the past three years sets us up for an exciting return to Ocean City during our 10th Anniversary season,” Grilly said. “Working with the Mayor’s office, city council and all of the city departments, we have seen record attendance year after year, and enjoy creating an event that is influenced both by the physical environment of the beach and the action sports culture in the area.”
In addition to the event returning to Ocean City, Alli Sports also announced that the NBC Sports Group will air more than eight hours of coverage of the Dew Tour Beach Championships using NBC Sports Live Extra, NBC’s live streaming product to PC’s, mobile devices and tablets. The event will also air live for four hours on NBC and NBCSN.
For more information visit DewTour.com.