department of athletics policies & procedures - UNC Wilmington ...

PURPOSE: The Division of Athletics at The University of North Carolina Wilmington,
its coaching personnel, physicians, certified athletic trainers, administrators, and staff
strongly believes that the use of drugs (excluding those drugs prescribed by a physician to
treat a specific medical condition) can be detrimental to the physical and mental wellbeing
of its student-athletes, no matter when such use should occur during the year.
Additionally, use or abuse can seriously interfere with the performance of individuals as
students as well as athletes and can be extremely dangerous to student-athletes and their
teammates, particularly when participating in athletic competition or practice. Therefore
it is the philosophy of the Department of Athletics that all student-athletes at UNCW will
be subjected to a drug screening and education program. For the purposes of this
program a student-athlete is defined as any student officially listed on the team’s roster.
This includes but is not limited to student-athletes who are “red shirting”, student-athletes
who are academically ineligible, student-athletes who are injured and 5 th year studentathletes
who are receiving athletic-related aid and /or using other athletic-related services,
including cheerleaders.
In light of this, the UNCW Department of Athletics has a mandatory program of drug
education and testing combined with counseling/rehabilitation efforts to assist and benefit
the student-athletes at UNCW. This program is in addition to the NCAA Drug-Testing
Program and procedures. The University of North Carolina Wilmington may amend,
alter or revise this Drug Screening and Education Program at any time without notice.
This Drug Screening and Education Program (including any sanction phases) is separate
and distinct from the NCAA Drug Testing program and its sanction phases.
POLICY STATEMENT: A complete copy of the Drug Screening and Education Policy
can be found in the appendix.
Event Safety and Game Operations Policy
PURPOSE: The goal of this policy is to promote event safety on the campus of the
University of North Carolina Wilmington. It is appropriate and essential to establish
protocol for emergency situations during home varsity athletic events.
POLICY STATEMENT: This policy will identify individuals responsible for effective
coordination and communication of a comprehensive emergency protocol. Additionally,
a thorough protocol will be established. Emergency situations may include but are not
limited to medical emergencies, weather emergency, facility malfunction, etc...
Key individuals
Game Manager (GM) – supervise events at specific venue
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