Riptide Swimmers Excel in League Championships

By: Riptide Multisports

Riptide swimmers representing their HS teams at the Jeffco 4A and 5a League Championship in prelims on Friday May 8th and Saturday May 9th swim well. Congratulations to Christian Treat who was 4A league champion in the 100 free posting a 47.59 and winning by over 1 second. Michael Bennet also was a league champion in the 5A 100 butterfly posting a 54.11. Congratulations to both.

Other All-Conference swims (top 3 at Jeffco League) were:

5A
Linley Wendt 2nd in 200 free with 1:49.30
Andy Nelson 2nd in 200 IM with 2:03.01
Andy Nelson 2nd in 100 free with 48.15
Craig O’Dell 2nd in 100 back with 56.54

4A
No others

Look for all 5 boys to compete in their respective events May 16th and 17th at HS State. The 4A State meet is in Longmont and the 5A State meet is in Ft. Collins. Also qualifying for the State meets from Riptide are Jake O’Dell, Doug Murphy, and Jeremy Erbsen.