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www.insideHALTON.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Thursday, June 6, 2013 | 24 Jon Kuiperij Sports Editor sports@oakvillebeaver.com Sports L A D Y "This is someone who has a history of skirting the ban," said David de Vlieger, president of Swimming Canada. "That's been known and found on multiple occasions. He doesn't seem to stop. Any chance he gets he continues to involve himself in the sport." De Vlieger said Swimming Canada may bring this decision before the Sport Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada to see "whether this ought to extend his ban further." In October 2012, Russell successfully appealed his second life-time coaching ban. The SDRCC commuted it into a three-year sentence. And, that decision left the door open to Russell returning to coaching as soon as March 9, 2014, if he showed "absolute and full compliance" with the ban. De Vlieger said it has always proven difficult to enforce any ban on Russell. "He doesn't appear on the pool deck, he gets into the stands, he gets at the athletes behind our back," he said. "I frankly don't understand why parents allow their young swimmers 12 and up to be associated with a fellow who is banned and has a pretty sordid past." The arbitrator Ratushny concluded that parents may have wanted the club to maintain interactions with Cecil Russell because he and Erin Russell were "coaches of a high calibre" with two Olympic children to prove it. "The success of the Russell children would be an attraction for other parents when they were choosing a club," he said. Sinead Russell, 19, is the Canadian recordholder in the 100m and 200m backstroke. In the London Summer Games she placed 8th in 200m backstroke and 16th in 100m backstroke. Her brother Colin, 28, competed in both the 2008 and 2012 Olympics. In London, Colin Russell swam on the 4x100m and 4x200m relay teams, which finished 10th and 14th, respectively. "Connected to your Community" H A W K S S O A R Dolphins' membership in Swim Ontario revoked Athletes must join new clubs to compete in sanctioned events by Kerry Gillespie Toronto Star Cecil Russell was banned for life -- twice -- from coaching swimmers because of his involvement in illegal steroid and ecstasy rings. During a 1997 murder trial he admitted to helping burn the body of a dead drug associate. But none of it stopped him from coaching his own talented children -- two competed at the 2012 London Olympics -- or other swimmers. And now, involvement with him has spelled the end of the Dolphins Swim Club of Oakville. Swim Ontario announced Friday that it had terminated the club's membership for allowing Russell to continue being involved despite repeated warnings and sanctions. Dolphins members will have to join new clubs to compete at sanctioned events. In his 29-page decision, the independent arbitrator Ed Ratushny, outlined the ways in which Russell used subterfuge to continue his involvement with the swim club despite the ban. He shared a cell phone and email with his wife Erin Russell -- listed as the club's head coach -- and the club's mailing address and bank account, at times, are the same as Russell's private coaching business, Ratushny found. He also found that Russell, a Burlington resident, booked rooms on behalf of the Dolphins for swim meets and later tried to hide that fact by falsifying documents, altering emails and faking a handwriting sample. The Toronto Star tried contacting both Cecil and Erin Russell but was unable to get any comment. "The Dolphins were, in effect, a willing partner with an ineligible person in the operations of the club," Ratushny wrote in his May 24 decision. None of this surprises officials at Swimming Canada. Oakville Lady Hawks under-13 A player Annabel Child runs with the ball Saturday during an Ontario Women's Field Lacrosse game against Owen Sound at Shell Park. The Lady Hawks downed Owen Sound 12-7 and also defeated Orillia 9-6 earlier in the day. Overall, Oakville teams in action during the tournamentstyle weekend of league games combined to go 10-1-1 in their 12 contests. The U19-1 Lady Hawks defeated Toronto Stars #2 15-2, Oshawa Blue Knights #3 11-6 and Owen Sound 12-3; the U19-2 Lady Hawks downed Brampton #2 12-3 and Toronto Stars #2 7-3; the U15 Lady Hawks edged Kawartha 9-8 and defeated Owen Sound (score not provided); and the U11 Lady Hawks beat Kitchener-Waterloo 13-4, tied St. Catharines 10-10 and fell 14-8 to Oshawa #1.| photo by Nikki Wesley-- Oakville Beaver -- @Halton_Photog