The star-studded LSU Alumni Gold meet this weekend marks the LSU track and field team’s last home event of the season at Bernie Moore Track Stadium as a part of Super Tiger Weekend.Students have the opportunity to watch former standout athletes who still train at LSU, such as 2008 World Indoor Champion Lolo Jones and 2008 Beijing Olympic silver medalist Richard Thompson, compete at LSU’s outdoor track.LSU coach Dennis Shaver said Thompson is slotted to run the 100-meter dash, and Jones is running the 100-meter hurdles.The Tigers and Lady Tigers are expected to compete in full at Saturday’s Alumni Gold meet.”Everybody on our team will be competing in [Saturday’s meet]. There will be about 25 other universities here competing, as well as the Canadian national men and women’s sprint and hurdle group, as well as a lot of professional athletes from around this area,” Shaver said.Shaver said the plethora of athletes and universities competing will result in a fight to the finish.”Traditionally, it’s been a great competition,” he said. “There’s a lot of really good universities coming to the meet. It makes it very competitive.”The LSU Alumni Gold meet went exceptionally well last year for both LSU teams, as the men’s and women’s 4×100-meter relay teams both won their respective events. Senior Trindon Holliday and junior Samantha Henry both won in the 100-meter dash at the competition last season as well.The meet is one of the last chances for LSU track and field athletes to set NCAA regional qualifying marks before the 2009 NCAA Mideast Regional Championships at Louisville on May 29-30.”It’s going to be exciting.” Shaver said. “We do have the Penn Relays. But for many people, improving on their regional qualifying mark or establishing themselves as regional qualifiers in their individual events is going to be important, because it does look like the weather’s going to be pretty good.”Shaver predicts Saturday’s weather will be fairly clear, unlike the rainy conditions at LSU’s first home outdoor meet of the season.”We have always been pretty fortunate and lucky that we’ve had pretty good weather          conditions for the meet,” Shaver said. “Other than a few spotted rain showers, it looks like it will be nice and warm, and we’ll have another good competition this year.” But the National Weather Service may have something to say about that.NWS currently predicts a 50 percent chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms Saturday during the day, jumping to 60 percent by the evening. The temperatures are predicted to be moderately warm in the 60s and 70s.LSU also hosts the LSU Combined Events today and tomorrow, but no LSU athletes will compete in those events. “We don’t have anybody that’s going to be competing in [the LSU Combined Events],” Shaver said. “We’re trying to get ourselves prepared and cranked up for Saturday’s competition.”Shaver said other colleges will be represented at today’s LSU Combined Events, but he is not yet sure who will be there.Shaver also said some events the teams will compete in on Saturday won’t be run at the Penn Relays on April 23-25.”We don’t run the 200, the 400, the 800 [meter dashes] or anything like that in the Penn Relays, so you can’t qualify those events,” he said.—-Contact Rowan Kavner at [email protected]