Riptides Racing Team Heats up at SC State Championships The South Carolina Swimming State Championships were hosted February 12-15 at the Westside Aquatic Center in Greenville, SC. The four-day event hosted nearly 800 swimmers from around the Palmetto State. For the locally based Riptides Racing Team, the SC Swimming State Championships went extremely well. Riptides Racing Team sent its largest squad in team history: 17 swimmers including Chad Bateson, Eddie Bateson, Andi Churchill, Connor Churchill, Harrison Clinton, Hurley Cribb, Danielle Flaherty, Jake Flaherty, Joe Guthinger, Ella Habib, Hannah McDonough, Peyton...

Riptides Racing Team hosts Winter Invitational The Riptides Racing Team hosted their Winter Invitational swimming meet Jan 22-24 at the “Pepper” Geddings Recreation Center. Nearly 160 swimmers from the Carolinas braved the cold and rainy weather to compete for another chance to qualify to respective State Championship swim meets. Thirty-six members of Riptides Racing Team combined for over 60% personal best times, 18 new SC Swimming State Championship qualifying time standards, 3 new Age-group Sectional Championship q-times, 7 new team records and added two more swimmers to the Riptides’ SC...

Riptides Racing Team Dives into 2016 The locally-based Riptides Racing Team began the second half of the short-course swim season with the final meet of the 12/Under Grand Prix Series. Grand Prix 4 was hosted in Mt. Pleasant, where 14 members of Riptides travelled and achieved nearly 70% personal best times and seven top-6 finishes including an event win. Ella Habib led all Riptides with four personal best times in the 50-freestyle, backstroke and breaststroke events and the 100-Individual Medley (IM). Habib won the backstroke and placed top-6 in the...

Riptides Racing Team Closes out 2015 The locally-based Riptides Racing Team closed out 2015 with the final two swim meets in December in Charleston and Columbia. Grand Prix #3 Sixteen members of Riptides Racing Team participated in the third installment of the 12/Under Grand Prix meet on December 5. Riptides continued their high success rate with nearly 80% personal best times achieved by the athletes. In addition, three new SC Swimming State Championship qualifying times, 9 top-6 finishes and one event win were achieved. Ella Speir led Riptides with 3...

McWhorter Leads Riptides, Grand Strand at SC Swimming Championships The 2015 South Carolina Swimming State Championships were hosted July 23-26 at the University of SC in Columbia. Over 600 athletes from the Palmetto State attended the four-day event. The locally-based Myrtle Beach Riptides swim team sent ten athletes to compete. For the Riptides, 12-year old Peyton McWhorter led the Riptides in every category including personal best times, team records and scoring swims. Additionally, McWhorter scored more individual points than any swimmer from the Grand Strand. McWhorter achieved 7 new team...

MB Riptides’ Heat up at 2015 SC Swimming State Championships The forecast in Greenville, SC for the 2015 SC Swimming State Championships was cold and dreary. But the Myrtle Beach Riptides swim team had a different idea… fast swimming to heat things up. The 2015 SC Swimming Championships was the largest meet in it’s history with more than 800 swimmers from the Palmetto State aged 18/Under in attendance. Riptides’ sent it’s largest squad of 17 swimmers. Riptides’ concluded the 2015 State Championships with 60 personal best times, 12 new team...

Myrtle Beach Riptides Wraps Up December Meets: The Myrtle Beach Riptides swim team wrapped up their December meets with events in Charleston, SC and Columbia, SC. 12/Under Grand Prix #3 – December 6 was the date for the third edition of the 12/Under Grand Prix Series. Sixteen members of the Riptides swim team travelled to Charleston, SC for the event and garnered 35 personal best times. Ella Habib, Kailey Habib and Maddi Pannell led Riptides swimming 4-for-4 personal bests. Racking up 3 personal bests each were Anaya Brown, Dave Hablani,...

Myrtle Beach Riptides swim team has busy November The Riptides swim team had a busy November, competing in two meets in Mount Pleasant, SC and in Raleigh, NC. Mount Pleasant 12/Under Grand Prix #3 – Twenty-three Riptides’ swimmers competed in Grand Prix #3 on November 8 in Mount Pleasant. The Grand Prix Series consists of 5 one-day meets and concludes with a two-day championship in February. The swimmers combined for 49 new personal best times. Kailey Habib and Dayton Busse led the Riptides with the single largest improvements of more...

MB Riptides’ 2nd Annual “IM” for Breast Cancer Awareness Meet The Myrtle Beach Riptides swim team hosted the 2nd Annual “IM” for Breast Cancer Awareness meet Oct 17-19 at the North Myrtle Beach Aquatic and Fitness Center. The meet provides local and regional athletes an opportunity to compete in their first weekend meet of the season and also serves to assist the Susan G Komen foundation in its efforts to thwart breast cancer. For the Riptides, over 40 swimmers competed in the meet and for many new Riptides it was...

Riptides swim team Hosts First Meet of Season: The Myrtle Beach Riptides swim team hosted their first meet of the season Sept 27, 2014 at the North Myrtle Beach Aquatic and Fitness Center. The event was the first meet of the 12/Under Grand Prix Series. The Grand Prix Series consists of five meets hosted in the lowcountry and is designed to educate new swimmers to USA-Swimming and provide competition to intermediate swimmers as well. Grand Prix #1 had nearly 140 participants from Charleston, Mount Pleasant and Myrtle Beach. For the...