DES MOINES, Iowa — Kirk Nauman had a feeling that, by the time the last event was run Saturday, all five of his Saint Mary's University track and field relays teams could be coming home from the Drake Relays as school-record holders.

SMU started the two-day event with a record-setting effort in the 4 x 200 on Friday, then closed things out with another record in the sprint medley on Saturday.

It was the three events in between that weren't record-setting caliber.

The Cardinals' 4 x 200 relay team — Autumn Valk (Appleton, Wis.), Megan Moran (Burlington, Wis.), Kelly Tanke (La Crosse, Wis.) and Becky Baron (Rapid River, Mich.) — got things off on the right foot, shattering the school's record by clocking a time of 1:47.90.

Valk then teamed up with Emily Bartusek (Albert Lea, Minn.), Ashley Dingels (Gibbon, Minn.) and Maria Roche (New Prague, Minn.) to close things out with an equally impressive bang, breaking the sprint medley school record by nearly eight seconds, breaking the tape in 4:08.44.

"It was a great way to end our performance (at the Drake Relays)," said Nauman. "(The sprint medley) had an outstanding performance — as did our 4 x 200 (team)," Nauman added. "Overall, I was very happy with the way we performed. We would have loved to have been able to come home with five school records, but just because we didn't, doesn't mean we didn't run well — it was a solid performance from everyone."

SMU's distance medley team narrowly missed the school mark, as the team of Tera Bollig (Cambridge, Minn.), Bartusek, Roche and Ellen Koranda (Blue Earth, Minn.) posted a time of 12:27.06, just seconds off the school's two-year-old record.

And the 4 x 100 team of Valk, Moran, Dingels and Baron narrowly missed the school record when they stopped the clock in 50.47, while the 4 x 400 team of Valk, Dingels, Bartusek and Roche broke the tape in 4:07.53, well back of the school's best time.