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...

Riptides Racing Team at Waves Quad Meet: The Riptides Racing Team traveled to Raleigh, NC for the 3rd Annual Waves Quad meet. Twenty members of the locally-based swim team competed at the meet which took place at the Orange County Sportsplex. For Riptides Racing, nearly 100 personal best times were achieved, including 12 new SC Swimming State Championship qualifying times, four Age-group Sectional Championship q-times, 4 team records and another newly qualified swimmer to the SC State Champs. Said head coach James Smith, “It was a tough meet for our...

Riptides Racing at Grand Prix 2: Several members of the Riptides Racing Team travelled to Mount Pleasant for the second meet of the 12/Under Grand Prix Series. By meets end, Riptides Racing Team achieved 80% personal best times, 14 Top-6 finishes and added two more SC Swimming State Championship qualifying times. Ella Speir led Riptides with five personal best times and new SC q-times in the 50-yard butterfly and 200-freestyle. These are Speir’s first SC q-times. Ella Habib, Jake Flaherty, Jack Guthinger, Madera Palmer, Marissa Patricio and Seth Riley each...

Riptides Racing Team hosts 3rd Annual “IM” for Breast Cancer Awareness Invite The locally-based Riptides Racing Team hosted the 3rd Annual “IM” for Breast Cancer Awareness Invite Oct 23-25 at the North Myrtle Beach Aquatic and Fitness Center. The meet had nearly 200 participants from NC and SC. For the third year, a donation will be made to the Susan G Komen foundation Race to the Cure for breast cancer. For the Riptides Racing Team, over 150 personal best times were achieved. This included 30 new SC Swimming State Championship...

Riptides Racing Team hosts first competition of 2015-16: The Riptides Racing Team hosted the first meet of the 12/Under Grand Prix Series on September 26 at the “Pepper” Geddings Recreation Center. The closed-series meet had over 180 participants from Myrtle Beach, Mount Pleasant and Charleston. Over twenty members of Riptides Racing Team competed achieving more than 30 personal best times, 5 new SC Swimming State Championship qualifying times and a new team record. Jake Flaherty swam to four personal best times and earned his first 11-12 State Championship q-time in...

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...

Myrtle Beach Riptides Face Blistering Heat As the temperature in the south increased, so did the racing from the Myrtle Beach Riptides swim team. The Riptides competed in two meets the week of June 18-22. 2015 Cuttino Invitational – Nearly a dozen members of the Riptides travelled to Savannah, GA for the 2015 SST Cuttino Invitational. The Cuttino Invite served as a preliminary/finals formatted meet for swimmers 13 and over and a timed-finals formatted meet for swimmers 12/Under. Hurley Cribb led all Riptides with 11 personal best times, three new...