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OHSAA investigating Trotwood track, football star Shaw
By Mark Gokavi

Staff Writer
Sunday, May 11, 2008

TROTWOOD ? Trotwood-Madison High School standout sprinter Michael Shaw is at the center of an Ohio High School Athletic Association inquiry into the school's registration process relative to establishing residency.

Shaw, a senior headed to Michigan on a football scholarship, also is one of the state's top sprinters for a loaded Trotwood track team that could contend for a Division I state title.

But despite recovering from a slight hamstring twitch that kept him out last week, Shaw didn't run Saturday, May 10 at Trotwood's Buff Taylor Memorial Invitational because school officials held him out.

"He would have ran today if everything else was going all right," Trotwood coach John McKinney said. "I didn't even know until (Friday night) that he wasn't going to run.

"(Trotwood athletic director Jim Ladd) said don't mess with anything that goes on if I have a kid that's questionable about eligibility or whatever; he said don't run him until I get the OK, so I'm waiting on a note from Ladd."

Shaw transferred from Alter midway through his junior year. Since this past fall, the OHSAA has been conducting an investigation into alleged recruiting violations by football coach Maurice Douglass.

OHSAA investigating Trotwood track, football star Shaw