After not having a home meet since the middle of February, the Penn State men's track and field team will finally be able to compete in Happy Valley.

The team will be serving as host to a very low-key competition tomorrow that will consist of a few small schools in attendance and some unattached entrants.

The last competition the Nittany Lions didn't have to travel for was the Sykes-Sabok Challenge on Feb. 10, which was during the indoor season.

Now nearing the end of the outdoor campaign, the team will have the final meet before the Big Ten championships at home.

The team is coming off a solid performance at the historic Penn Relays last weekend where Penn State captured numerous high finishes and personal records.

"We're coming off a very volatile week at the Penn Relays where we did a lot of competition and everyone did very well," head coach Beth Alford-Sullivan said. "We're prepping up for the Big Tens, this weekend is low-key, work out the kinks a little bit and have some fun."

Even though the competition tomorrow will be light compared to what the Lions faced last weekend and what they will face a week from now, the athletes on the team will be looking to log some solid training.

Penn State standout Ryan Fritz will be throwing in a few jumps for the team. Depending on the competition that is available at the meet, Fritz may be ending his training day early, he said.

Fritz will be starting off his afternoon at a height that is higher than normal for his first few jumps.

"I'm just going to be coming in at very high height to get use to bigger competition and to get more confidence," Fritz said. "I'm going to be working on my approach."

On the track, many runners for Penn State will be entered in events designed solely for training purposes. Steeplechaser Mike Syrnick is one example of that strategy for tomorrow.

Syrnick will be taking a weekend off from his new event -- the 3,000-meter steeplechase -- to get some speed work in with a 1,500-meter race.

"We really aren't running anyone in any event that they are going to be doing at Big Ten's [next weekend]," Syrnick said. "[The coaches] want us to get something different under our belts."

While the small meet tomorrow will wrap up in what is short for a track meet -- a speedy four hours or so -- the Lions will accomplish important objectives in preparation for the upcoming Big Tens.

"This is one of those low key weekends where we just offered up a meet mainly for our kids to have a chance to get on the track and do some things without a lot of extra energy put forward," Alford-Sullivan said. "They'll be packing up their rooms, studying for finals, and preparing for Big Tens all in one this weekend."