Gainesville, Fla.—Spire T&F is battling it out under the Florida rays at the NAIA Indoor T&F Championships with day two underway.

To kick off Thursday evening, the women's 4x400m Relay team consisting of Deslyne Cooper, Keiyah Cole, Hope Crabtree, and Haley Sampson absolutely smashed the previously held USM record by six seconds, finishing with a time of 3:50.41 and 11^th place overall.

To begin day two, freshman Tyler Holmes would take 10^th overall in his first post-season appearance for the Spires. Tyler would have his farthest leap of the day at 7.18m to finish a highly impressive first year for the dual sport athlete.

Deslyne Cooper and Haley Sampson would not move on the finals but posted two solid finishes in 17^th and 18^th place respectively in the women's 400m dash prelims with final times of 57.38 and 5.58.

Carly Holadia would place in the top 10 in the women's 1,000m run taking 10^th overall with a final time of 2:55.36. Teammate Abigail White wouldn't be far behind finishing in 14^th place and a prelims time of 2:57.25.

On the men's side, Austin Howell would earn a 12^th place finish in the men's 1,000 meter. Austin came in at a final time of 2:26.85, just missing finals qualifications but ending his year on a high note.

Wrapping up the USM competitors for Friday was the women's 200-meter dash. Familiar face Deslyne Cooper would be the lone Spire in this event as she would battle for 27^th place overall with a speedy finish of 25.39 seconds.

Josie Tyrrell will kick off the action for the Spires tomorrow afternoon in the women's 5,000 meter run beginning at approximately 3:55 p.m EST. Follow along all day Saturday and view all previous results at Half-Mile Timing.