Males place third, girls fifth – Technician

The NC State swimming and diving program headed again from the seven-day ACC Championships with extra weight in its baggage than when it left.

That’s as a result of the Wolfpack earned a number of silverware on its approach to a third-place end by the boys and fifth-place by the ladies — silverware, and new data.

Freestyle relays have been the boys’s greatest pal, medaling within the 200, 400 and 800 occasions. The group of junior Hudson Williams, junior Jerry Fox, sophomore Kaii Winkler and redshirt junior Quintin McCarty took gold within the 400 freestyle relay and set an ACC document within the occasion. With a time of two:43.15, they shattered a document set by a earlier NC State squad in 2018.

The similar core, with senior Drew Salls competing as a substitute of Williams, took gold within the 200 freestyle. Their time of 1:14.02 was good for a tempo virtually a second quicker than second-place California, and extra importantly, one other ACC document. The Wolfpack have positioned first within the 200 freestyle 4 years in a row.

Winkler, Williams, Fox and junior Daniel Diehl additionally took silver within the 800 freestyle relay with a time of 6:07.42. Winkler’s 1:30.29 lead-off cut up set a college document for the 200 freestyle.

While the ladies didn’t medal in any of these occasions, they did place fifth within the 800 freestyle relay. Graduate scholar Olivia Nel,senior Katherine Helms, sophomore Erika Pelaez and freshman Lily King set the second-fastest time in program historical past at 6:57.74.

The girls additionally earned silver within the 400 medley relay. The group of Pelaez, Nel, freshman Eneli Jefimova and sophomore Leah Shackley completed with a time of three:24.65.

The Wolfpack impressed in particular person races as a lot as in relays. Graduate scholar Aiden Hayes took gold within the males’s 100 butterfly with a time of 44:07, whereas Jefimova took gold within the girls’s 100 breaststroke with a time of 56:77. Freshman Max Carlsen took gold within the males’s 500 freestyle with a time of 4:09.44, and graduate scholar Arsenio Bustos took gold within the males’s 200 particular person medley with a time of 1:40.39.

McCarty and Winkler went back-and-forth within the 100 freestyle after Winkler set a program document within the preliminary spherical. McCarty set a brand new program document simply after with a time of 40.88. In the ultimate, Winkler got here out two-hundredths of a second forward of his teammate for the silver, whereas McCarty earned bronze.

After breaking a meet and program document within the preliminary spherical, McCarty swam 18.63 within the males’s 50 freestyle for one more gold medal. On the ultimate day of competitors, Carlsen earned his second gold medal within the males’s 1650 freestyle with a time of 14:32.68.

No athletes from NC State certified to the finals of any diving occasions, however junior Grace Hurley took the very best end for the Wolfpack in Eleventh-place in girls’s platform diving.

The 2026 ACC Championship introduced tons for NC State followers to be enthusiastic about, and this system now orients itself towards NCAA championships in March. First up is the NCAA Zone B Diving Championship from March 6-11.