U of Waterloo Football Steroid Case

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Waterloo rocked by college football doping scandal
Entire team tested after police investigation uncovers stash of steroids, human growth hormone

www.thestar.com/sports/college/article/788626--waterloo-rocked-by-college-football-doping-scandal

"It's a high-risk game to be taking steroids and in my view the risk-reward just isn't there,"

- Marg McGregor, the CIS chief executive officer

[scheibo]

The risk reward clearly is not there for someone who is on the *WATERLOO* football team. Maybe someone at the top of the division vying for Vanier or something, but Waterloo?

Anyway: apparently my swim coach was talking about this at practice yesterday. This is hearsay from my teammate, but apparently the way it went down was that some guy's house had loads of HGH in it - way more than could be used for just one person so they figured he must be giving it to others. He admitted to using and 4 others on the team also admitted, and now theyre testing all the athletes on the team.

Interesting, my coach also sent out some statistics and apparently something like ~56 cases at universities of drugs/doping have been caught by CCES in the history of the organization and of those the majority is (suprise) football players. 0 runners or swimmers. And that includes marijauna/cocaine etc - I think only about 1/4 of the cases of doping were steroids.

Pretty interesting

[cda]

Apr 1, 2010 21:34:40 GMT -5 scheibo said:

The risk reward clearly is not there for someone who is on the *WATERLOO* football team. Maybe someone at the top of the division vying for Vanier or something, but Waterloo?

Anyway: apparently my swim coach was talking about this at practice yesterday. This is hearsay from my teammate, but apparently the way it went down was that some guy's house had loads of HGH in it - way more than could be used for just one person so they figured he must be giving it to others. He admitted to using and 4 others on the team also admitted, and now theyre testing all the athletes on the team.

Interesting, my coach also sent out some statistics and apparently something like ~56 cases at universities of drugs/doping have been caught by CCES in the history of the organization and of those the majority is (suprise) football players. 0 runners or swimmers. And that includes marijauna/cocaine etc - I think only about 1/4 of the cases of doping were steroids.

Pretty interesting

Weren't you heavily recruited for UW football? Seems sort of gutless to be trash-talking them after the fact.

[scheibo]

cda, didn't you try out for UW football and _not_ make the team? Pretty sad that your lifelong goal at college football is now out of the question.

[journeyman]

Here is the list you were talking about:

Breakdown of doping infractions by CIS student-athletes since 1990 (56):

By gender:
Men 54
Women 2

By substance:
Steroid 24
Marijuana 15
Cocaine 4
Cocaine & Marijuana 3
Ephedrine 3
Refusal 2
Tamoxifen 1
Letrozole 1
Ephedrine & Marijuana 1
Pseudoephedrine 1
Admitted usage 1

By sport:
Football 45
Ice Hockey 4
Basketball 4
Field Hockey 1
Soccer 1
Volleyball 1

The CIS Doping Control policies can be found at the following link:
english.cis-sic.ca/information/members_info/pdfs/pdf_bylaws_policies_procedures/14_Policy_90.10_Drug_Education_2009-10.pdf