Aiden Hayes returns from an injury to Tac Titans Spring Fling

2025 TAC TITANS Spring Fling Meet

• 16.-18. May 2025
• Triangle Aquatic Center – Cary, NC
• LCM (50 meters)
• Results: “2025 TAC Titans Spring Fling Meet” on Meetmobile

Former 200 Yard butterfly NCAA champion Aiden Hayes Returned to the competition at the Tac Titans Spring Fling Meet in Cary, North Carolina this weekend. Hayes has triggered the 2024-25 season with a broken wrist and in January NC State head coach Braden Holloway Said Swimswam, the “schedule is TBD, but [he’s] out for a while. “When he missed the entire season, this meeting marked Hayes' first since the Olympic tests of 2024, where he took fifth place in the 100-meter butterfly.

The 21-year-old Hayes has made a strong impression for almost a year during his first meeting. He won the 100-meter butterfly in 52.52, making him one of the five-fingered American men this season. This ranking is led by Share Casas With its 50.82 from the West Mont Pro Swim, followed by Luca Urlando'S 51.32 from the Sacramento Stop of the series.

Hayes separated 24.45/28.07 to win in Cary, and fell 0.87 seconds from the preliminaries to the final. Both the front and the back halves were faster than the 24.94/28.45, which he swam in Prelims for a 53.39 priority, which is a strong sign for Hayes than he continues to dismantle from an injury.

In the first two competitions, Hayes also drove preliminary rounds of the 50 freestyle (24.31) and 100 backstroke (57.96). He qualified for the final at both events, but did not race how many of his Wolfpack swimmers approached the meeting this weekend.

Other remarkable results so far

• Lance Norris is fresh from a strong season with the Wolfpack, where he has best improved his life in freestyle 500/1000/1650. He translated these profits well to drive the best lifespan in the 400 freestyle (3: 50.58) and 800 freestyle (7: 56.09). Its 400 freestyle time improves by almost a second, while his 800 freestyle time is a decline of 3.75 seconds.
• 14-year-old Alistair Peng Has several lifelong best best this weekend on the way to two event victories. It is its 25.52 in 50 freestyle to emphasize its previous performance. It was his first floating sub-26 seconds and his second life. From July 2023 he came to the meeting with a best of 26.37 and fell to 26.06 in preliminary rounds before cracking the time barrier for gold in the final.
• Erika Pelaez The best of the season's best 100th back of the back loosened. She drove a new season best 100.75 in preparations and added five hundredths to win the final. Both swimming were faster than their best Lauderdale Best, where they 1: 00.92 for 11 sponge^TH.
• Tyler Driscoll saw great improvements in her second season in the NC State and qualified for her first NCAA championships. She carried this momentum into the long -term season. She swam her first personal best in 50-meter freestyle in almost three years this weekend, increased 26.27 in the preliminary rounds to be 0.01 seconds from their standard and then reach in the final 26.21.
• Kacper Stokowksi For the first time since winning three medals at the 2024 World Championship, I have gained in the competition pool. The 100 -bronze bronze medalist at this meeting, Stokowski, swam 54.83 in the 100th back this weekend and first qualified before scratching the final.