BATON ROUGE — After two weeks on the road the LSU track and field team returns home to host the LSU Twilight Friday afternoon at the Carl Maddox Fieldhouse.
Competition will begin at 3 p.m. with the field events and continue at 6 p.m. with the running events.
The top-ranked Lady Tigers and the second-ranked Tigers will be challenged by a field of 13 teams from throughout the South and Virginia as SEC-foe Alabama, in-state schools Tulane and UL-Lafayette, as well as Houston, Southern Miss and Virginia Commonwealth, among others are all scheduled to compete.
Following two straight weekends of challenging competition, LSU will rest many of its athletes in preparation for the SEC Indoor Championships to be run, Feb. 27-29, in Lexington, Ky.
However, several key athletes will be looking to improve on provisional qualifying marks posted earlier this season.
Lolo Jones, the defending NCAA champion in the 60 hurdles and a 2003 All-American in the 60-meter dash is slated to participate in both events Friday. Jones, who has provisionally qualified to the NCAA Championships in each event, currently owns the SEC’s top hurdles time (8.17), as well as the seventh-best 60 meter time (7.44).
Throwers Mallory McDonald and Katie McKeever will be gunning for NCAA automatic marks in the weight throw and the shot put, respectively.
McDonald, who has recorded her top distance to date (63-7 ?) at the Carl Maddox Fieldhouse, will look to better that mark Friday, while McKeever will also be looking to improve in the shot put after throwing a season-best 50-0 ? at last week’s Armory Invitational.
Following the LSU Twilight, both the Tigers and Lady Tigers will return to action at the SEC Indoor Championships in Lexington, Ky., Feb. 27-29.