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UIL officials say steroid testing to begin by end of October
Interscholastic League officials say state's random steroids testing program to begin by end of October.
Written by:
Associated Press
10/08/2007
UIL officials have said that their goal was to have the new mandate implemented before the end of football season. The final regular-season games are scheduled for Nov. 9.
UIL athletic director Charles Breithaupt said "three or four" companies are still being evaluated for the contract out of the 14 that submitted bids, which were due in late July. Contenders for the contract have said testing could begin within a week of being awarded the job.
"Realistically, we're looking at the end of October," Breithaupt said in a story posted Sunday on the Austin American-Statesman Web site.
Legislative budget planners have set aside $6 million for the program, which will apply to all sports. More than 23,000 public high school students out of an estimated 740,000 total are expected to be tested in the next two years for anabolic steroids under the new law, making the initiative the largest of its kind in the country.
On Sunday, Breithaupt and UIL assistant athletic director Mark Cousins said at the semiannual UIL Medical Advisory Committee that the program will be "the largest steroid testing program in the world."
Test subjects will come from a randomly selected pool of 30 percent of the state's 1,246 public high schools. The program calls for students at about 400 schools to be tested during the 2007-08 school year.
"The way sports are going right now, it's a great idea," said Claude Mathis, coach of the LBJ High School football team. "For some of these kids, there's a lot of pressure to get a scholarship, to make it to the next level. Maybe they see (steroids) as a way of getting there."
Students who refuse the test will be treated as a positive test, which is punished by a 30-day suspension on the first offense.