Respondent is a coach of track and field athletes responsible for training, coaching and guiding athletes in preparation for elite competition. Stewart claims he quit coaching all athletes but his wife in 2004. His training includes strength training, weight management, body stability, rehabilitation and nutrition training.
Respondent met Angel Memo Heredia, hereinafter identified as Memo, in 1997. Respondent was training himself and Beverly McDonald at that time while living in Dallas, Texas. The Heredia family owns and operates the Chopo laboratory in Mexico City, Mexico. Stewart maintained a relationship with Memo from 1997 to 2006. Memo is an admitted drug dealer. He has co-operated with the United States government in the criminal prosecution of Coach Trevor Graham.
Specifically Stewart is charged with violations of WADA Sections 2.7.: identifies a doping violation for trafficking in any prohibited substance or prohibited method and 2.8.: identifies a doping violation of administration or attempted administration of a prohibited substance or prohibited method to any athlete or assisting, encouraging, aiding, abetting, covering up or any other type of complicity involving an anti-doping rule violation or attempted violation. USADA seeks to prove that Respondent engaged in an ongoing practice of procuring performance enhanced drugs (PED’s) and using those drugs in a training program designed to enhance the performance of athletes under his guidance and supervision, including encouraging, aiding, abetting, covering up or any other type of complicity in an anti-doping rule violation or attempted anti-doping rule violation. In the event of prevailing on the charges, USADA seeks the imposition of a lifetime period of ineligibility.
The recommendation of USADA that the arbitrator impose a lifetime period of ineligibility from coaching on Raymond Stewart is accepted and adopted.
