2023 200 butterfly champion Aiden Hayes and All-American Arsenio Bustos will miss the remainder of the 2024-25 season with accidents. NC State head coach Braden Holloway shared that Hayes fractured his wrist and won’t return this semester. The “timetable is TBD,” Holloway stated, “however [Hayes] is out for some time.”
Bustos, the reigning ACC champion within the 200 IM, posted on his Instagram that he “sustained an harm a number of months in the past” and has “determined to concentrate on [his] restoration and well being to come back again higher for the 2025-26 season.”
Hayes and Bustos are seniors, however neither has raced for the Wolfpack this season, which leaves them the choice to race subsequent season as redshirt seniors attributable to harm. Their final meet was the June U.S. Olympic Trials, the place Hayes completed fifth within the 100 fly and Buston sixth within the 200 IM. Moreover, Quintin McCarty has been racing this season however was absent from the staff’s midseason invite. Holloway confirmed that McCarty was ailing in the course of the meet, is again coaching, and can return to racing this season.
Being with out these two swimmers for the postseason means the Wolfpack have taken a major hit points-wise on the convention and NCAA degree. They had been the staff’s second and third-highest factors scorers on the 2024 NCAA Championships, behind the now-graduated Kacper Stokowski.
Hayes scored 36 factors, taking third within the 200 fly (1:39.16), sixth within the 100 fly (44.39), and tenth within the 100 again (44.55). Moreover, Hayes helped the Wolfpack reclaim the 200 medley relay American document with a 1:20.98 after Florida took it half-hour after the Wolfpack’s time on the 2024 ACCs. Hayes led off the quartet of himself, Sam Hoover, Luke Miller, and McCarty in 20.07, setting the quickest 50 backstroke time in NCAA historical past.
Bustos racked up 33 factors ultimately 12 months’s NCAAs, ending fourth within the 200 IM (1:39.83), ninth within the 100 fly (44.49), and ninth within the 200 breast (1:50.49). He additionally helped the Wolfpack’s 800 free relay to a ninth-place end, splitting 1:32.63.
Past the NCAA Championships, Hayes and Bustos’ absences will have an effect on subsequent month’s ACC Championships. The Wolfpack have established themselves as the highest drive on the boys’s aspect of the championships and are chasing their fourth-straight convention title. Nevertheless, the convention has been shaken up this 12 months with the arrival of Cal, Stanford, and SMU. The Golden Bears, significantly, will problem NC State’s grip on the convention.
Hayes and Bustos had been two of the staff’s prime scorers on the 2024 ACC Championships, incomes 78 and 68 factors, respectively. Hayes completed second within the 100/200 fly and took eighth within the 50 free. Along with successful the 200 IM, Bustos touched third within the 200 breast and seventeenth within the 200 free.
