peds and our son's

My son's former high school coach was fired yesterday for spiking the Gatorade with creatine. I'm tough on coaches. I guess I need to be.


Wolfson High School baseball coach Jed Douglas was dismissed from his position Friday after coaching in just one game.

Athletic director Frank Jenkins confirmed Friday night that Douglas was no longer the coach.

"We had to name an interim coach today," Jenkins said. "We appointed Joel Chaitovicz to that position. Circumstances made it necessary for us to do this. Other than that, you'll have to check with principal [Hammond] Gracy for further comment."

Messages left with Gracy's cell phone and his home phone were not returned. Calls to Douglas' cell phone were also not returned. Douglas is also a biology teacher at Wolfson.

According to a Wolfson player, several members of the baseball team were questioned by school officials Friday.

"They called some of us in and asked if we had seen him [Douglas] put creatine in the Gatorade," senior catcher Josh McCray said. "I told them I had not seen this.

"But this really upsets me that someone could be messing with my Gatorade. What happens if sometime down the road I get tested and they find something in my system and I know nothing about it? I could lose my college scholarship."

McCray has signed a scholarship offer to attend Pensacola Community College next fall.

"You would think your coach would be looking out for your best interest, not doing something that would come back to hurt you," McCray said. "You bet I'm upset about this."

McCray said he had not spoken to Douglas since his firing. "None of us had a chance to talk to coach about this," McCray said. "They made him leave the campus before school got out."

Wolfson defeated University Christian 5-0 Friday in a game played shortly after Douglas was dismissed. Chaitovicz had been the junior varsity coach.

"Principal Gracy asked me to step in for today's game," Chaitovicz said. "I don't know beyond that. It's up to them if I continue in this position."

This isn't the first time Douglas has been dismissed as baseball coach under questionable circumstances.

On Feb. 25, 2008, Douglas was dismissed from his head coaching position with the Dalton High (Ga.) baseball team, one week before the team's season opener.

Dalton athletic director Ronnie McClurg told the Dalton Daily Citizen that "the baseball program wasn't going in the direction we needed it to be going."

A source told the Georgia paper alleged there were "illegal workouts."

Douglas took the Dalton job after coaching at Jacksonville's Eagle's View Academy in 2007, when the Warriors won the Class A state championship.

This marks the second time in eight months that Wolfson has had to deal with controversy involving a coach and a nutritional supplement.

Last June, Wolfson football coach Law Johnson was asked to resign over a supplement that he had approved for Wolfpack players to take.

Wolfson's baseball program is typically one of the better teams in the Jacksonville area, and expectations were high for the 2009 team. The Wolfpack was 21-6 last season, and a district runner-up. Wolfson has eight senior starters this season.

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Folks, I mentioned this in an earlier post on Strength and Conditioning site. Some MLB teams ask prospects if they were or had been using Creatine products. To me that raises a red flag, why would they ask this if knowing the prospect is using has a bearing on their projection of this player. My son received a questionnaire from a team with just this question on it. We all know many of our son's, not all mind you, want to play in the big show. I would guess if you answered yes, you just diminished your projection with MLB.

Creatine is not a PED, technically

Be careful as to what you assume and say !!!!

PUHD,
I don't agree with you and this wasn't about players using creatine, but the coach spiking the gatorade with a legal substance that allows the player to decide if he wants to use it or not.

Stupid coach, most likely has no clue how to use it to reach the proper results.

TPM, I realize what the tread was about, was giving additional information on Creatine because others mentioned it. Just a warning to younger players of what to expect.

What part of my post, don't you agree with, or all of it?

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Originally posted by Pop Up Hitter dad:
I would guess if you answered yes, you just diminished your projection with MLB.

This part.
Why would it diminish projection? My son uses creatine and is about the same height and a few pounds heavier than in 2007, just distributed more evenly. For some reason people think taking it makes you the Hulk, it doesn't work that way. It does help in getting max from your workout, you need to still consume the right amount of calories and proper conditioning to see any results. JMO.