The Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tions of Ath­let­ic Ad­min­is­tra­tions (NAAA) has writ­ten to Louisiana State Uni­ver­si­ty (LSU) on the Se­moy Hack­ett dop­ing al­le­ga­tions. NAAA third vice-pres­i­dent Durly Lu­cas in­di­cat­ed that pres­i­dent Ephraim Ser­rette wrote seek­ing clar­i­fi­ca­tions. Speak­ing on the To­ba­go Chan­nel Five Rise and Shine Morn­ing Show yes­ter­day, Lu­cas said the NAAA wants to get more clar­i­ty on an ar­ti­cle pub­lished on the LSU web­site on No­vem­ber 16 stat­ing that Hack­ett was test­ed pos­i­tive for the NCAA banned stim­u­lant methylex­aneamine.

"We are not any wis­er on what the re­port (on the LSU Web site) said. The sto­ry says the ath­letes were test­ed pos­i­tive in a 2012 out­door com­pe­ti­tion but the sec­ond part says that she test­ed pos­i­tive in the 2011 cham­pi­onships (in June). The on­ly per­son who could clar­i­fy that at this point in time is LSU, whom the pres­i­dent of the NAAA has writ­ten to seek­ing some clar­i­fi­ca­tions," said Lu­cas.

He said if Hack­ett was test­ed in June 2011, the In­ter­na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Ath­let­ic Fed­er­a­tion (IAAF) was not in­formed by the LSU. "Hack­ett was banned from Au­gust 2011 to (March) 2012. It means there are dis­crep­an­cies in the re­port. It means that if she was test­ed in June 2011, the IAAF was not no­ti­fied. We have no in­for­ma­tion through the fed­er­a­tion so LSU will have to ex­plain." Lu­cas fur­ther said that the as­so­ci­a­tion (NAAA) was not at­tempt­ing to cov­er up the is­sue by its ap­par­ent si­lence but was pro­tect­ing the rights of the ath­lete.