The LSU track and field teams’ experience at this weekend’s Penn Relays could be sweeter than J-E-L-L-O.”They do some great marketing and promotional things,” said LSU coach Dennis Shaver. “There will be celebrities. Bill Cosby’s always there every day for most all the day. That’s always a treat for everyone who’s there.”The event in Philadelphia is a spectacle for fans unlike any other during the outdoor track season.”It’s very much a carnival kind of an atmosphere,” Shaver said. “It’s really difficult to explain unless you’ve been there.”Shaver said more than 25,000 athletes will compete during the three-day event. On Saturday alone, Shaver expects 45,000-50,000 people in the stands.LSU won six relay titles at last season’s meet, the most ever by any team in a single year at the event, setting a meet record in the women’s 4×100-meter relay on the way.”LSU’s had more success at the Penn Relays after last year than any university that’s attended the meet in the entire history,” Shaver said.As the name suggests, most events at the competition are relay events. But the Tigers and Lady Tigers also had individual success at last season’s meet.Senior Rabun Fox won the hammer throw at the meet last season with a toss of 208 feet, 8 inches, and junior Katelyn Rodrigue won the women’s pole vault last year at a height of 13 feet, 7 1/4 inches.”Right now they’ve gotten a little bit better than they were last year,” Shaver said. “But even doing that, they’re the second-best people on our team in both of those events.” Shaver said sophomore transfer Walter Henning, who currently leads the nation in the hammer throw at 235 feet, 11 inches, and freshman Rachel Laurent in the pole vault are ahead of Fox and Rodrigue.But last year’s athletes differ from this year’s contestants.”The success we had last year was last year’s success,” Shaver said. “This year’s a whole new year.”Senior sprinter Trindon Holliday was a member of the winning sprint medley and 4×100-meter relay teams at last year’s Penn Relays. He said the relay members are still perfecting their exchanges for the meet.”LSU has been known to go to the Penn Relays and dominate some of the relays,” Holliday said. “We have been successful the last couple years, so we’re just going to try to continue that tradition this weekend.”But despite his success in the relays, Holliday has yet to win at the Penn Relays in the individual event he has excelled in throughout his career — the 100-meter dash.”Trindon Holliday’s going to be working hard to try to win his first ever … 100 meters at Penn,” Shaver said.Shaver said the 2003 women’s 4×200-meter relay team will be honored this weekend. The team set a Penn Relays record and still holds the collegiate record in the event at one minute, 29.78 seconds.”It’s only three times in the history of the world that a team, 4×2, has run under one minute, 30 seconds,” Shaver said.Following the Penn Relays, LSU will prepare for the Southeastern Conference Championships in Gainesville, Fla., on May 15-17.—-Contact Rowan Kavner at [email protected]