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NewsIHSA sets penalty for steroid usage nDaily Herald - Published: 3/18/2008 12:11 AM
The Illinois High School Association's Board of Directors at its monthly meeting Saturday in Peoria approved the penalty to be applied to a student who tests positive for performance-enhancing drugs.
The student would be ineligible for 365 days from the date the test results were reported to the student and the school.
The student may then apply for reinstatement of athletic eligibility after 90 calendar days, following the successful completion of an approved educational program and a negative test for performance-enhancing drugs.
The board determined that any team penalties would be determined by the executive director on a case-by-case basis under the provisions of Article 1.460 of the IHSA Constitution.
The board also approved the National Center for Drug Free Sport to provide testing services when the program is implemented in the 2008-09 school term, and approved the language of the random testing consent form that each student and his/her guardian will be required to sign to maintain athletic eligibility.
"We are pleased with the action taken by the Board in regards to our drug testing program," said IHSA assistant executive director Kurt Gibson in a release on the IHSA Web site Monday.
"Our Sports Medicine Advisory Committee believes the experience Drug Free Sport has with athletic drug testing will be invaluable in the implementation our program, and we're excited to have an opportunity to work with them. Our committee felt that their experience, expertise, and commitment to education on the use of performance-enhancing substances were the best match for the needs of our program."
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