Transfer 101
What you need to know that no one tells you
You only get 1 free transfer and that transfer typically should be outside of your conference or else expect to sit a year and wait for your eligibility to come up.
If you transfer once and want to transfer again you MUST sit for a year.
What 1 free transfer means
Recruiting is risky to begin with but as a college soccer coach accepting a transfer on a scholarship is even more risky. At least a player who hasn’t transferred before and isn’t fitting the program, school, culture or some other factor can leave without restriction and find a new program. But a player that has already transferred once is somewhat locked into that new program for better or worse and likely becomes less desirable as a two-time transfer and someone who MUST sit a year after transferring a second time.
Do your homework and know the program you are joining so you don’t have to transfer in the first place! Honestly this goes for college coaches too. Ask good questions of the coaches, players and get to know the program inside and out. Later commitments can be good because you will know a program better and have less time between joining a program and you both expect of each other.
If you transfer some of your college class credits won’t transfer to the next institution. This sucks!
You need to be advance your degree by 20% each year to be eligible in the eyes of the NCAA so if you transfer and lose credits you might have to change majors or take a heavy class load to catch up….. or even not practice for a year or semester/quarter to pass enough classes to get eligible. The rule in the eyes of the NCAA is you have 5 years to complete 4 seasons of competition and you must have degree progress completion of 20% per year to maintain eligibility to play.
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