Warning for transfer student-athletes, especially walk-ons to NCAA Schools
Now her options are limited and more complicated:
- By waiting until two weeks into the semester to inform the athlete of her status, she is stuck at that college and is now ineligible for this academic year. She must now work to earn her academic eligibility to be able to compete next year at this college.
- Also, because an athlete must be academically eligible when they leave their current school in order to be immediately eligible as a transfer to an NCAA member school, she either needs to stay at this school and work to earn her eligibility there, OR
- If she chooses to transfer to another NCAA college before she regains eligibility where she is, she may be ineligible for her first academic year at the next college.
- Another option is that she could possibly transfer to an NAIA college where it would be possible to regain eligibility after one semester.