We are seeing increased steroid use in high school athletes. I believe it starts with dietary supplements among young people and then leads to anabolic steroid use and other performance-enhancing drug use.

We don't do it to catch people, [but] we do it to deter the use of banned substances.

Passing a drug test is very easy. All you have to do is not use drugs or dietary supplements.

We've seen significant improvements regarding drug use in sport, and we're very pleased with how far we've come in this area. The studies show us that most athletes do not use drugs.

[Independent surveys estimate 1.5%-2% of Florida's high school athletes might be using steroids.] But against a student base of 215,000 athletes, it's kind of scary to think that possibly 4,000 are at risk out there, ... We don't want to see any youngster's life at risk.

Spearfish has never been a 'tall' school. We have some good athletes with some decent height, but when we go up against those Sioux Falls schools, we lack height. If we can't be tall we have to be quick.