Maybe this can put to rest the rumors started by a certain columnist last year.

CCU athletics programs staying out of trouble with NCAA


CONWAY - Coastal Carolina's athletics teams had very few missteps during the 2005-06 school year as far as the NCAA was concerned.

CCU's 16 NCAA-sanctioned athletic teams were responsible for three violations during the last academic year, a Freedom of Information Act request by The Sun News revealed. All three violations were self-reported by the university and all three were considered secondary.

Additionally, when the NCAA conducted its annual random drug testing of Coastal athletes last October, all 26 selected participants tested negative for all substances, the same FOIA request.

The NCAA tests for, among other things, anabolic agents, diuretics, growth hormones, several street drugs and overuse of stimulants.

The university's in-house drug testing program, although less comprehensive than the NCAA's, samples 5 percent of each team annually. From Aug. 1, 2005, through this past Tuesday, Coastal had tested 52 total athletes.

Like the official NCAA testing, all 52 in-house samples were clean.

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