Track assistant resigns after NCAA violation
Melissa Miller, an assistant coach for USF's track and field teams, resigned Tuesday following the university reporting a secondary recruiting violation to the NCAA involving a distance runner from Canada.
USF self-reported two secondary violations involving Adam Hortian, who accepted a $600 cash prize in February as winner of the Suncoast Classic Run for Kids 10-kilometer run in St. Petersburg, then continued to participate as an amateur in three meets this spring with the Bulls.
Hortian told USF officials that while he was being recruited by USF last year, Miller promised to "highly recommend" him for a graduate assistant position on the track staff at USF. Miller did so without notifying USF head track coach Warren Bye, according to the report, and the school listed her resignation as the "institution's response" to the violation as a "self-imposed sanction or disciplinary action" in the report to the NCAA.
Hortian has been deleted from USF's record books for the three meets, and USF's report to the NCAA states that the school will notify meet organizers to remove him from their records. Miller, Hortian and Bye could not be reached for comment Tuesday night.
Times sportswriter Greg Auman, who covers USF, will post news and thoughts on the Bulletin and we invite your participation in the comments area.
In other news, the golf team sucks.
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Posted by: Ari Hinkelberger | May 14, 2008 at 12:55 AM
Wow! That is bad, but what about Southern Cal? Where are their sanctions?
Posted by: DELdaBULL | May 14, 2008 at 08:31 AM
USF is self-imposing sanctions before NCAA does anything. Doubt USC will self-impose anything.
Posted by: Norb | May 14, 2008 at 04:04 PM
USC will drag everyone and their mother into the mud before they self-impose a thing. You'd have a better chance of grilling porkchops at the USF Jewish Student Center.
Seriously though, the Reggie Bush debacle will never be punished. Mark my words.
Posted by: Mike Lakeland | May 14, 2008 at 04:08 PM