Winter Invite highlights

2013 Winter Invite Great Success
The Myrtle Beach Riptides hosted their annual Winter Invite January 18-20 at the North Myrtle Beach Aquatic and Fitness Center.  Over 220 swimmers from teams in SC and NC descended to the area for the competition.  Thirty Riptides' swimmers competed and did an outstanding job as well, earning many best times, MBR records and new State Championship q-times. 

Leading the charge with personal best times at 8 were Chad Bateson and Danielle Flaherty.  Earning seven best times each were Andi Churchill, Barbara Long and Peyton McWhorter.  

Rafael Adi, Mackenzie Angwin, Eddie Bateson, Dayton Busse, Julia Campbell, Jake Flaherty, Kailey Habib, Tucker Hendrix, Matthew Key, Ty Kinner-Costello, Megan Koppel, Taylor Koppel, Hannah McDonough, Sophia McKanna, Kylie McWhorter, Ethan Nechemia, Yianni Paraschos, Lexi Roberts, Jacob Sessions, Chloe Stampfle and Cobi Williams each swam to personal bests during the meet.  Swimming in their first meet with Riptides were Josh Guerra-Devine and Alyssa Cozart.

The Winter Invite also served as the last chance opportunity for swimmers to earn or improve 2013 SC Swimming State Championship qualifying times.  

Chad (1650-free) and Eddie Bateson (1000-free) each set new team records and earned additional State Championship q-times.  Julia Campbell, Andi Churchill and Lexi Roberts also earned new State Championship q-times.  And Danielle Flaherty earned her first 11-12 Age-group Sectional Championships q-time and additional State Championship q-times.

Riptides is proud to announce the 2013 short-course SC Swimming State Championship team – Chad Bateson, Eddie Bateson, Julia Campbell, Andi Churchill, Connor Churchill, Danielle Flaherty, Barbara Long and Lexi Roberts.  

Congratulations to all our swimmers on a job well done at the Winter Invite.