TexasTerror
May 11th, 2006, 08:09 PM
Interesting read on NCAA drug testing...
Athletes receive little notice prior to tests
Thursday, May 11, 2006
MIKE PERRIN
News staff writer
The National Center for Drug Free Sport is a Kansas City, Mo., company contracted by the NCAA to administer its drug testing program.
Every year all NCAA Division I, I-AA and Division II athletes are required, in order to be eligible, to sign a waiver that agrees to submit to random drug tests.
The NCAA's drug-testing program is two-fold - a year-round program and a championships program. Student-athletes tested at championship events and certified football bowl games - which could happen at any point during a championship tournament, not just the final contest - are screened for stimulants, anabolic agents like steroids, diuretics, street drugs like heroin and marijuana, and urine manipulators and masking agents.
Tests administered in the year-round program do not screen for street drugs.
Andrea Wickerham, NCAA drug-testing director for Drug Free Sport, said the number of positive drug tests has remained fairly constant the past few years at around 1.5 to 2 percent. About 13,000 samples are tested, she said.
http://www.al.com/sports/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/sports/1147339196195700.xml&coll=2
Athletes receive little notice prior to tests
Thursday, May 11, 2006
MIKE PERRIN
News staff writer
The National Center for Drug Free Sport is a Kansas City, Mo., company contracted by the NCAA to administer its drug testing program.
Every year all NCAA Division I, I-AA and Division II athletes are required, in order to be eligible, to sign a waiver that agrees to submit to random drug tests.
The NCAA's drug-testing program is two-fold - a year-round program and a championships program. Student-athletes tested at championship events and certified football bowl games - which could happen at any point during a championship tournament, not just the final contest - are screened for stimulants, anabolic agents like steroids, diuretics, street drugs like heroin and marijuana, and urine manipulators and masking agents.
Tests administered in the year-round program do not screen for street drugs.
Andrea Wickerham, NCAA drug-testing director for Drug Free Sport, said the number of positive drug tests has remained fairly constant the past few years at around 1.5 to 2 percent. About 13,000 samples are tested, she said.
http://www.al.com/sports/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/sports/1147339196195700.xml&coll=2