Career and Season Results
2x All-Conference
Indoor
2024 4x400-meter relay (3rd; 3:14.08)
Outdoor
2023 4x400-meter relay (3rd; 3:10.46)
Academic Honors
2x American Conference All-Academic Team - 2023, '25
3x AD Honor Roll - Fall 2022, Fall '23, Spring '25
2024-25 (Junior): Indoor – Competed in five meets…Ran on the winning distance medley relay at the Ichabod Invitational…Ran a season-best 400-meter time of 49.44 at the Ichabod Invitational…Finished 24
th in the 400 meters at the American Indoor Championships.
Outdoor – Competed in six meets…Finished third in the 400 meters at the Coyote Classic with a time of 49.80…Ran a season-best 400 time of 48.52 to finish fifth at the Shocker Open…Finished 19
th in the 400 meters at the American Outdoor Championships with a time of 49.26.
2023-24 (Sophomore): Indoor – Competed in five meets, recording three individual top-five finishes and running on one winning 4x400-meter relay…Took second in the 400 meters at the Ichabod Invitational with a season-best time of 48.33…Finished third in the 600 meters at the Mark Colligan Memorial with a time of 1:21.19…Earned all-conference recognition, running on the third-place 4x400-meter relay at the AAC Championships…Finished 14
th in the AAC 400 meters with a time of 48.81…Ran on the fourth-place DMR at the AAC Championships…Helped the team score 11 points.
Outdoor – Competed in two meets before his season was cut short due to injury…Finished 11
th in the 200 meters with a time of 22.20 and ran on the winning 4x100-meter relay at the Shocker Spring Invitational…Ran on the third-place 4x800-meter relay at the Friends Spring Open.
2022-23 (Freshman): Indoor – Competed in three meets…Placed third in the 400 meters at the Lindeman Invitational with a season-best 49.27…Ran 22.63 in the 200 meters in the same meet…Finished 17
th in the 400 meters at the AAC Indoor Championships.
Outdoor – Competed in seven meets…Ran on the winning 4x400-meter relay at the Shocker Spring Invitational…Recorded a season-best 22.29 in the 200 meters at the Friends Spring Open…Placed 10
th in the 400 meters at the AAC Outdoor Championships with a season-best time of 48.15…Earned all-conference recognition in the 4x400-meter relay, placing third to clinch the team title for the men with the ninth-best time in Shocker history (3:10.46).
High School: Won the 800 meters at the Alachua County Championships as a senior…Placed sixth at the state meet in the 400 meters and fifth in the 4x400-meter relay…Won the district meet as a team in 2022 and placed third at the state meet…Four-year letter winner…Also played golf, volunteered and participated in vex robotics…Was First Team All-Area Sun’s for golf in 2022…
HS personal bests: 200 meters – 22.62, 400 meters – 48.87, 800 meters – 1:59.58
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Personal: Son of Robin and Jeff Spires…Has a sister, Tara, and two brothers, Trent and Ty…Plans to major in biomedical engineering.
