2013 Myrtle Beach Riptides’ “IM” for Breast Cancer Awareness Invitational The locally-based Myrtle Beach Riptides hosted their first home-meet of the season Oct 18-20 at the North Myrtle Beach Aquatic and Fitness Center. Five teams of nearly 200 hundred swimmers participated in the event, which was able to donate $1000.00 to the Susan G. Komen foundation. Head coach/CEO of the Riptides, James Smith said, “Initially our donation to the Komen foundation was at $500, but the City of Charleston Southern Marlins Racing Team Booster Club added another $500 to the...

First Meets of 2013-14 Set Tone for Long-term Success! 2013 MPSC Grand Prix #1: In the first meet of the season for Riptides, twenty-five swimmers travelled to Mount Pleasant for Grand Prix #1. There were numerous best times, a few new SC State Championship q-times and even new Riptides’ team records! Lexi Roberts led Riptide with a new state champ q-time in the 50 breaststroke and 2 team records – 50 breast and 200 free. Matthew Key led all Riptides with single largest improvement of over 40 seconds in the...

2013 Lowcountry Palmetto Championships held on Grand Strand The Myrtle Beach Riptides swim team hosted the 2013 Lowcountry Palmetto Championships March 22-24 at the North Myrtle Beach Aquatic and Fitness Center. This was the second year the meet was hosted by the Riptides and was much larger than before. According to head coach James Smith, this year’s meet hosted over 300 swimmers, up nearly 100 swimmers from 2012. Teams from Charleston, Columbia, Florence, Hilton Head, Mount Pleasant and Myrtle Beach were in attendance. The Riptides placed 4th overall in the...

2013 Auburn Southern Region Open Championships Four members of the Myrtle Beach-based Myrtle Beach Riptides swim team travelled to Auburn University for the 2013 Southern Region Open Championships. This was the inaugural year for the swim meet, which featured teams from Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, South Carolina and Ohio. This was the first competition for the Riptides’ since the 2013 South Carolina State Championships just two weeks earlier. For some swimmers, it was the final meet of the season and the fast swimming from the State Championships just continued at Auburn...

The saying goes, "It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog." To expemplify this, Riptides' own Lauren Campbell (5'3" tall) and Keenan Lineback (5'1" tall, maybe) not only competed at their respective conference championships, but also qualified to Finals. At the MPSF conference championships, Keenan won two events for University of San Diego - 400 IM (4:17) and 1650-free (16:39, school record). These are the first event wins for USD since 2003. Keenan also went personal best in the...

2013 MPSC Grand Prix Championships: The 2013 Grand Prix Series closed with the Championships meet hosted Feb 23-24 in Mount Pleasant. Twelve swimmers made the trip and did an outstanding job resulting in numerous personal best times and 3 new SCS State Championship q-times. Connor Churchill earned 3 personal best times and a new SCS q-time in the 100 butterfly. Peyton Mc Whorter swam to 7 personal best times and 2 new SCS q-times in the 50 butterfly and 50 backstroke. Those are Mc Whorter’s first SCS q-times. Rafael Adi...

From Athens, GA... Lauren Campbell (GA Southern) competed in the "B" finals of the 200 backstroke and 200 butterfly on the last night of the CCSA Championships. Campbell bettered her prelim time in the 200 backstroke to another personal best 2:03.89 and 10th place. In the 200 butterfly, Campbell 2:07.17 and finished 14th overall. On the other side of the USA in Monterey Park, CA... Keenan Lineback (USD) won the 1650-free in a blistering time of 16:39.04. The win was Lineback's second for the meet and also set a new...

Today is the final day of the college conference championships... Lauren Campbell (GA Southern) swam the 200 backstroke to a 2:04.63 which is a personal best time and was good enough to get her into 10th place going into tonight's finals. Lauren also swam the 200 butterfly to a 2:06.78, which is just over her personal best and will put her in 13th place in tonight's finals. Meanwhile in CA... Keenan Lineback (USD) swam the 200 butterfly to a personal best and 6th place 2:02:01 for tonight's finals. Keenan will...

From Monterey Park, CA... Lineback WINS!!! Keenan Lineback (USD) won the women's 400 IM in a time of 4:17.42, which bettered her time from the morning. Keenan is the first swimmer from the Grand Strand to win an individual event at a college conference championship. Congrats to Keenan!

From Monterey, CA... Keenan Lineback (USD) competed in the 400 IM and set a blistering time of 4:18.91 to earn a spot as tonight's #1 seed! Keenan's time is also an NCAA D-I "B" standard, which means she could earn an invitation to the NCAA D-I National Championships. It is believed that Keenan is the first swimmer, ever, from Myrtle Beach to earn such a standard. Congrats Keenand and good luck tonight!