Any experience on transferring colleges?

You should have done that right after the NCAA's in June. If you know anyone on the team at a school you'd be interested in, have him/her drop your name and pr's to the HC.

Or, you could have another trusted party do it for you. If your records are impressive enough, the HC could have a third party talk to you about xf (they can't contact you) if they are interested.

Eventually you will tell your old school that you are intersted in xf and you have yet to talk to their HC and you would like permission to do so. You can talk aid after they get permission from your old school.

Wogan wrote:

You should have done that right after the NCAA's in June. If you know anyone on the team at a school you'd be interested in, have him/her drop your name and pr's to the HC.

Or, you could have another trusted party do it for you. If your records are impressive enough, the HC could have a third party talk to you about xf (they can't contact you) if they are interested.

Eventually you will tell your old school that you are intersted in xf and you have yet to talk to their HC and you would like permission to do so. You can talk aid after they get permission from your old school.

Good summary. Also, unless you move down a division or from D3 to D3, you lose a year of eligibility.

Most former programs won't stand in your way of immediate elig' if you do things right. You will lose no seasons even if you have to sit.

IF you do things right.

That means RIGHT NOW have a conversation with your current coach and compliance office.

You need permission to speak to other schools, NOT some third party intermediate doing it for you.

Be an adult.

I'm sure there are lots of posters on these message boards who have transferred. If you are not worried about scholarship $ and you don't mind sitting out a year, you can simply enroll at whatever new school you want. Otherwise, you need to get permission from your present school to contact other schools, and once you decide on a new school, they need to secure a release from your old school that waives the one year waiting period before you would be eligible to compete.

Be careful: An athlete I coached in high school wanted to transfer from a big time school to a mid major. When she asked for permission (in early April) to contact other schools, the head coach immediately kicked her off the team.

I transferred and didn't have any regrets until about 10 years later. One program was not really superior to the other, I was just lost and confused. I committed to one school and should have honored that commitment out of respect for the people and university that took a chance on me and gave me that opportunity. Transferring made me appear flakey, not loyal, wishy-washy. It also interrupted team bonding and friendships that could have lasted way beyond college and I always felt like an outsider at my new school. But at the time, I didn't care about any of that.

If you aren't on a scholarship, there shouldn't be any reason for your current school to not grant a waiver/release to transfer to another school (and walk-on there). If your academic interests will be better met at the new school, no one at your current school will have an issue with you transferring. At some point, you will need to contact the coach at the new school and be admitted there, then you tell your current coach that you want to make a change.

Can you transfer from a d3 to a d1 without having to sit out a season or having to ask your coach and school permission to talkntonother schools since you are not on a scholarship or committed?

Anyone know what the rules are for transferring from a D1 school to another D1 school after xc season is over?

If you are a division 1 student athlete, YOU WERE ALREADY TOLD THE RULES IN YOUR INITIAL COMPLIANCE MEETING.

Rule #1- Immediately have a conversation with your coach. there are NO OTHER RULES until this is done.

Then talk to compliance for permission to contact.

The school can or can not give you permission to contact, they will explain the appeal process if not.

The school can or can not approve a 1 time transfer exception, they will explain the appeal process if not.

The best way to get what you want, is to have an adult conversation with your coach ASAP. If you start going behind his back asking for other opinions, having people call around for you, then be prepared to accept the consequences of your choices.

Rule #1- ask your coach, not a message board.

Would someone have to sit out a season by doing this though? Or is that decided by the head coach of the school you are transferring from?

Definitively contact your coach beforehand. Also need to think about when you tell your coach. For me, I told my coach I was transferring and quit my team before the outdoor season started. Did this to focus on my running, finals, and contacting other coaches. Everything you do has a consequence. Don't forget that.

I transferred down divisions. My coach was very reasonable about the whole thing and told me that their school policy was that they'd grant waivers to any school not in our conference. Other schools probably have similar rules -- if you want to go to your school's rival then I wouldn't expect a waiver. The only way to know for sure is to talk to your coach. I think if you have a decent reason to transfer most coaches would be understanding, unless the reason is just that you don't like their program. If not you could just say that the school is too expensive or something along those lines.