Two of 10,117 Texas high school athletes tested positive for steroids during the first wave of tests between February and June, the University Interscholatic League said Tuesday.
UIL spokeswoman Kim Rogers said that the two students who tested postitive are multi-sport athletes, but that the sports they play are unknown. The UIL didn't release the names of the students, who according to documents obtained by The Associated Press are a senior and a 10th-grader.
The UIL, which governs high school extracurricular activities in Texas, also said there were four unresolved results reported from the laboratory with testosterone/epitestosterone ratios greater than 6:1. A person's T/E ratio can indicate the use of steroids or a masking agent.
Follow-up tests are being conducted to determine if those tests will be reported as positive or negative.
Twenty-two athletes violated the protocol, which resulted in positive results, on a technicality.
Eighteen of those violations were for unexcused absences, three were because athletes refused to participate and one was the result of a student leaving the testing area without approval. Students at 195 schools were tested. Football (3,330) and volleyball (835) players were the most-tested.
The UIL Anabolic Steroid Testing Report includes information such as the total number of tests conducted, the number of positive results and the breakdown of student-athletes tested by sport and gender.
The taxpayer-funded $6 million program is expected to test around 45,000 students in two years, but has yet to test football players before or during the season.
The program, the largest of its kind in the country, was signed into law in 2007.
Could it be that the threat of being randomly tested is keeping some athletes clean?
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