Minnesota State goaltender Dryden McKay
AP
MANKATO, Minn. — Minnesota State goaltender and Hobey Baker Award winner Dryden McKay has been given a six-month ban for an anti-doping violation after main the Mavericks to the Frozen 4 nationwide championship recreation.
The suspension was introduced Monday by the USA Anti-Doping Company.
McKay was examined by the company as an alternate for Workforce USA’s Olympic hockey roster. On. Jan. 23, the 24-year-old examined constructive for ostarine, which is a prohibited substance that’s within the class of anabolic brokers.
Minnesota State stated in a press release that McKay discovered of the constructive end result on Jan. 31 and acquired a compulsory provisional suspension on Feb. 3. It was lifted by an arbitrator the identical day following a listening to, the college stated.
The college stated it confirmed with the NCAA that McKay was eligible to play. His season ended April 9, when he and the Mavericks misplaced 5-1 to the College of Denver within the males’s Division I title recreation.
McKay stated in a social media submit that he had taken an vitamin D3 immune booster to assist defend him from COVID-19, He stated he had all of his dietary supplements shipped to a lab after being notified of the constructive check, and that the ostarine was within the D3 complement.
USADA additionally stated that a complement he’d taken was contaminated with ostarine, in accordance with outcomes from a World Anti-Doping Company-accredited lab. It was at a stage constant “with the circumstances of ingestion and his constructive check,” the USADA stated, and the information label on the complement label didn’t listing ostarine.
“I'm coping with the consequence,” in order that he can begin taking part in professionally within the fall. He additionally stated he doesn’t take “muscle constructing dietary supplements or creatine and by no means will” and that the “expertise has been a really surprising and troublesome matter for me and my household.”
McKay completed the season with a 38-5 mark. He was named the Hobey Baker Award winner as the highest participant in NCAA males’s hockey.
Minnesota State stated in its assertion that regardless of the suspension, “we proceed to imagine Dryden McKay is a formidable younger man, with unquestionable character and integrity who was unequivocally dedicated to the requirements of equity that include competing drug free.” The college additionally stated that it will defer additional remark since McKay is ”transitioning to a different stage in his life.”
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