East Carolina’s athletic department temporarily suspended its swimming and diving program in late August after someone reported a hazing incident, a university spokesperson said this week.
Tom McClellan, an ECU spokesperson, said the members of the swimming and diving program were in a packed car, exceeding the car’s capacity, and driving fast in circles, which is commonly referred to as “doing doughnuts.”
The university and the ECU police department conducted separate investigations, and both determined the incident didn’t qualify as hazing.
McClellan said that a student did not report the incident, but that the car was stopped by police.