Schafer Quits!!!

[kaelistus]

Article Taken from http://imprint.uwaterloo.ca/issues/102497/5Sports/sports03.shtml

Another college hockey coach has been suspended after testing positive for a banned substance, galvanizing a university sports establishment that is already reeling from the three positive tests revealed two weeks ago.

Mike Schafer an eight year coach from the University of Cornell  has tested positive for the anabolic steroid stanazolol, and will suffer a permanent suspension.

This latest positive test has touched off more speculation about the prevalence of substance abuse in university athletics and the effectiveness of NCAA testing.

In response to this, Schafer's second positive test, Cornell's Director of Athletics has asked the CIAU to test at least twelve more of his coaches. "It's for my own conscience and also because we want to know if there is a problem," Andrew Noel said.

Cornell University announced this week that it will test all of the remainder of its 200 varsity athletes. Testing on this scale will be a costly endeavor for the Ithaca university, but it has been deemed necessary to ensure that no Cornell coach uses steroids. Last year, Mounties head coach Marc Loranger was fired after fullback Ben Goyette tested positive for steroids.

Andrew Noel is not planning any expanded system of testing in response to the positive test at Cornell and those elsewhere, but she stated that more could possibly be done to educate athletes about the dangers of steroids. Noel defended the effectiveness of the testing system, the same one that is employed by the International Olympic Committee. She added that the random nature of testing leaves all coaches, athletes, rookies or veterans, equally likely to be tested.

When asked if the Cornell hockey program has a steroid problem, neither Noel nor Cornell' president Jeffrey S. Lehman indicated that they believe a problem exists, and that the decision to use steroids is most often an individual one. Noeldid allow, however, that if another Cornell coach tests positive for steroids "we have a big problem."

[Jordan 04]

Gotta do a better job than that... :-P

[kaelistus]

Yeah.. well I was going to write this whole steroid controversy article, but then work got in the way and I was forced to just submit the headline.

[kaelistus]

Article is up... Well kinda.. In leu of time, I just copied something else.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Wow.  I saw the headline and expected another Facetimer-esqe troll-fest.

This was, at least, a pleasant surprise.  At least somebody made the effort.

JH