Photo Courtesy: Griffin Scott<\/p>\n
CHARLOTTESVILLE – Virginia Swimming, for the second year in a row, has had a high-profile student-athlete suspension as head coach Augie Busch has pulled five student-athletes from competing during the rest of fall 2014 semester.<\/p>\n
In a release today, Virginia confirmed that Kyle Dudzinski, David Ingraham, Jake Pearce, Charlie Rommel and Luke Papendick would not be competing the rest of the year “for violations of University of Virginia policy and athletics department rules.”<\/p>\n
That means the five will miss\u00a0meets against Navy (Oct. 24), Michigan and Penn State (Nov. 7-8 in University Park, PA), and NC State (Nov. 15) in addition to the Georgia Fall Invitational (Dec. 5-7 in Athens, GA).<\/p>\n
This is the second year in a row that Busch’s team has had to do some very public policing via a suspension. \u00a0Last October, Busch suspended eight from the meet against Navy with\u00a0Meredith Cavalier, Hillary Petersen, David Ingraham, Nick Alexiou, Rodney Fentress, Yannick Kaeser, Jordan Sacks and Chris Webb those that missed time. \u00a0Several of those suspended decided to transfer instead of staying put.<\/p>\n
The only person that was part of each incident was\u00a0Ingraham.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe University of Virginia and our athletic department demands its student-athletes to adhere to the highest standards of integrity and accountability and our swimming and diving program is no different,\u201d Busch said at the time of the 2013 suspension. \u201cThese eight student-athletes have breached those standards and have subsequently been suspended for one meet. I am confident that they have learned from this experience and we are all eager to move forward with a renewed sense of what it means to represent such a special program and university.\u201d<\/p>\n
This time around, Virginia is letting its press statement stand as its response, firmly stating that “university officials will not have additional comments on this matter.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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