LSU track and field has a history of successful teams and individual talents. LSU’s 2009 indoor track season begins at 3 p.m. today at the Maddox Field House with high hopes for the No. 2 Lady Tigers and No. 8 Tigers. But most students don’t necessarily have any idea.The Lady Tigers won last year’s Southeastern Conference Indoor and Outdoor Championships, while the Tigers won the Mideast Regional Championships.Lolo Jones, 2008 Olympian and World Indoor Champion hurdler, and Richard Thompson, 2008 NCAA Men’s Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year and Olympic Silver Medalist, are just two of the many stars to have been part of LSU track and field.But track and field, the program that has won the most national championships at LSU, is a question mark to most LSU fans.LSU senior sprinter Trindon Holliday is well-known by LSU fans, but mainly for his football returning skills and not his participation in track. “He is a football player,” said, Brad Rovira, communication studies senior. “Fast.”William Workman, civil engineering sophomore, took the answer a bit further. “[He] plays for LSU football [as a] punt returner,” Workman said. “[He is the] fastest guy in the NCAA. He was a track star.” Brittain White, electrical engineering freshman, knew about the other sport Holliday participates in but still first referred to Holliday as a football player.”He’s a short, stocky guy,” White said. “[He is] pretty quick. [He] plays football and runs track.”Even if LSU fans only know Holliday as a football player, they know him better than they know Thompson.Most students asked had never heard of Thompson, who ran the second-fastest time in NCAA history (9.93 seconds) in the 100-meters at the 2008 SEC Championships.”Not really,” White said. “He probably plays football.”Workman gave a simple “no.”  The answers were not confident.”No, never,” Rovira answered.The football comparison also applies to coaches, as well.”I don’t know if [LSU track and field coach] Dennis [Shaver] gets his just due around here,” LSU women’s basketball coach Van Chancellor said Tuesday. “This man is a coaching track machine.”Neither Rovira nor White knew about Shaver.Workman figured he’d take a chance when asked.”Dennis Shaver … I’m gonna guess he’s the track coach,” he said.It took eight interviews before finding Justin Hewitt, civil engineering sophomore, who seemed to know a little about track and field.”I went to school with [Holliday],” Hewitt said. “[He is] supposedly the fastest college football player [in the nation].”When asked if he knew Thompson, Hewitt knew his stuff.”[He is] the guy that got silver in the Olympics [from] Trinidad and Tobago,” Hewitt said.Hewitt also knew who Shaver was, and was the only fan who knew of another LSU track and field athlete.”I took a class with Davide [Brown],” Hewitt responded.—-Contact Rowan Kavner at [email protected]