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Drug Testing
Reprinted from the
NCAA Online
If you attend an NCAA school, you will be subject to regulations prohibiting drug use. Each academic year in Divisions I and II sports in which the NCAA conducts year-round drug testing (currently Divisions I and II football and track and field), you must sign a drug-testing consent
form when you report for practice or before the Monday of your college's fourth week of classes, whichever occurs earlier. In all other Divisions I and II sports and in Division III each academic year, you must sign a drug-testing consent form before you compete. Drug testing occurs randomly on a year- round basis in Divisions I and II football and track and field. Drug testing also
is conducted at NCAA championships and football bowl games.
If you test positive, you will lose a season of competition in all sports if the season of
competition has not yet started. If the season of competition has started, you will lose one full season of competition in all sports (i.e., remaining contests in the current season and contests in the following season up to the time that you were declared ineligible during the previous year). In addition, many colleges have their own drug-use policies that may affect
your participation.
Further, the use of tobacco products is prohibited for coaches, game officials and student-athletes in all sports during practice and competition. A student-athlete who uses tobacco products during practice or
competition is automatically disqualified for the remainder of that practice or game.
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