AAA Panel Imposes Eight-Year Ban For US Track and Field Coach, Jon Drummond

December 17, 2014

USADA announced today that a three member panel of the American Arbitration Association North American Court of Arbitration for Sport (AAA), rendered its decision in the case of Jon Drummond, of Grand Prairie, Texas, a coach in the sport of track & field sanctioning him for eight years for his doping violations. The independent AAA panel found that Drummond possessed, trafficked, and administered banned performance enhancing substances to an athlete under his care as a coach.

“Coaches have an inherent responsibility to protect athletes- not take advantage of them- but to ensure that they receive the support, training and advice they need to win fairly and in accordance with the rules,” said USADA CEO Travis T. Tygart.

As an Olympian, a former world record holder, a coach of U.S. Olympians and the recent Chairman of the USA Track & Field Athletes Advisory Council, Drummond was entrusted to guide athletes. Instead of using his position of power and influence to protect athletes, following a two-day evidentiary hearing, the AAA panel found “that Drummond failed to act in the manner expected of a coach of athletes in the Olympic Movement.  A coach cannot lead an athlete to into the danger of using prohibited substances. . . . A coach must be a watchdog when it comes to prohibited substances.”