It allows students, coaches, and chemical health educators an opportunity to discuss how alcohol and drug use can and does affect athletes. Luther college feels it is very important that these issues are discussed with athletes since they fall into a high risk group for alcohol abuse on college campuses. TSS fosters student responsibility and leadership by having the athletes help to decide what is appropriate when is comes to alcohol use and being a part of a team. It begins to give them a sense of personal identity, and helps them to begin to set goals on how they want to live the rest of their lives. This education focuses on how alcohol use directly affects athletic performance.
Students learn about chemical health and wellness programs on campus.
The final objective is to clarify team expectations regarding alcohol use and behavior. The staff members that are involved in the program are the chemical health educator, head coach of the team, assistant athletic director, Dean of Student Life, and a professor of Management Operation Systems. The chemical health educator runs the program. The assistant athletic director makes sure that each team has gone through the program. The head coach makes sure their team goes through TSS prior to the season, and takes part in the process of setting the team standards.