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Drug Testing

All student-athletes, prior to their first practice, must sign and consent to be drug-tested by the NCAA.  This consent form indicates that the signer agrees to allow the NCAA to test them on a year-round basis and in relation to any participation in any NCAA championship and in any postseason football game certified by the NCAA for the banned drugs listed in Bylaw 18.4.1.4.7 (NCAA Banned Substances)  and indicated below:
 
NCAA legislation requires that schools provide drug education to all student-athletes. The athletics director or athletics director's designee shall disseminate the list of banned-drug classes to all student-athletes and educate them about products that might contain banned drugs. All student-athletes are to be notified the list may change during the academic year and that updates may be found on the NCAA website (ncaa.org). They should also be informed of the appropriate athletics department procedures for disseminating updates to the list. It is the student-athlete's responsibility to check with the appropriate or designated athletics staff before using any substance.
 
 
The NCAA bans the following drug classes:
  1. Stimulants.
  2. Anabolic agents.
  3. Beta blockers (banned for rifle only).
  4. Diuretics and masking agents.
  5. Narcotics.
  6. Peptide hormones, growth factors, related substances and mimetics.
  7. Hormone and metabolic modulators.
  8. Beta-2 agonists.

NCAA Nutritional/Dietary Supplements:

Before consuming any nutritional/dietary supplement product, first review the product and its label with your athletics department staff. 
  1. There are no NCAA-approved nutritional or dietary supplements.
  2. Nutritional/dietary supplements, including vitamins and minerals, are not well regulated and may cause a positive drug test.
  3. Prior student-athletes have tested positive and lost their eligibility using nutritional/dietary supplements.
  4. Many nutritional/dietary supplements are contaminated with banned drugs not listed on the label.
  5. While third- party tested and low-level risk products may be options, complete elimination of risk is impossible.
  6. All nutritional/dietary supplements are taken at the student-athlete’s own risk.
The NCAA subscribes only to Drug Free Sport AXIS™ (AXIS) for authoritative review of label ingredients in medications and nutritional/dietary supplements. Contact AXIS at 816-474-7321 or axis.drugfreesport.com (access code ncaa2).
Please contact Athletics Training staff, Sports Performance staff or Strength and Conditioning staff for more information about supplements.