Sacred Heart University

Student-Athlete Transfers
Student-athletes at NCAA member institutions are not permitted to contact other NCAA institutions about transferring until they provide their current institution with written notification of transfer and complete an educational module related to transferring. Your current institution shall then enter your information into the national transfer database. Notification of transferring must be initiated during a period specified for the applicable sport.
Transfers from a Four-Year Institution
Student-athletes are eligible for competition and to receive institutional athletically related financial aid as long as they would have been academically eligible to compete had they remained at the institution where they most recently attended class as a full-time student. If they are not academically eligible at the previous institution, at the time of transfer, they may become eligible to compete after the conclusion of the first regular term following transfer by successfully meeting all applicable progress-toward-degree requirements at the certifying institution.
 
Two-Year College Transfer Regulations 
Before transferring to an NCAA school from a Junior College, you should be aware of the requirements.
The first thing you need to do is determine whether you would have been a qualifier or a nonqualifier at an NCAA school if you had elected to attend an NCAA college as a first year student. You can receive help from your high-school guidance counselor, a college coach, or the NCAA Eligibility Center to determine whether you would be a qualifier. Each year the NCAA produces the NCAA Guide for the College Bound Student-Athlete, a brochure that lists all of the requirements to be a qualifier, as well as registration procedures for the NCAA Eligibility Center.
Nonqualifier/Academic Redshirt
If you were a nonqualifier/academic redshirt based on your high school record and you wish to receive a scholarship, practice and compete at a Division I school immediately after you transfer, you must meet all of the following requirements before you transfer:
1. Graduate from the two-year college [Note: if you attend more than one two-year college, at least 25 percent of the credit hours you need to receive your degree must be earned at the two- year college that awards the degree.]
2. Satisfactorily complete a minimum of 48 semester or 72 quarter hours of transferable degree credit, including six-semester or eight-quarter hours of English credit, three semester or four quarter hours of math or quantitative reasoning credit and three semester or four quarter hours of natural/physical science credit [Note: not more than 18 semester or 27 quarter hours of transferable degree credit may be earned during the summer and not more than 9 semester or 13.5 quarter hours of the transferable degree credit may be earned during the summer immediately before transfer.];
3. Have a minimum grade-point average of 2.500 in your transferable credit hours; and
4. Have attended the two-year college as a full-time student for at least three semesters or four quarters (excluding summer terms).
If you do not meet all of the requirements listed, you will not be permitted to practice, compete or receive institutional financial aid during your first year at a Division I institution.
Qualifier

If you were a qualifier based on your high-school record and you wish to compete immediately at a Division I institution, you must meet one of the two options listed below before you transfer:
Option One:
1. Graduate from the two-year college [Note: if you attend more than one two-year college, at least 25 percent of the credit hours you need to receive your degree must be earned at the two- year college that awards the degree.]
2. Satisfactorily complete a minimum of 48 semester or 72 quarter hours of transferable degree credit, including six-semester or eight-quarter hours of English credit, three semester or four quarter hours of math or quantitative reasoning credit and three semester or four quarter hours of natural/physical science credit [Note: not more than 18 semester or 27 quarter hours of transferable degree credit may be earned during the summer and not more than 9 semester or 13.5 quarter hours of the transferable degree credit may be earned during the summer immediately before transfer.];
3. Have a minimum grade-point average of 2.500 in your transferable credit hours; and
4. Have attended the two-year college as a full-time student for at least three semesters or four quarters (excluding summer terms).
OR
Option Two:
1. Spend a minimum of one semester or one full-time quarter of residence at the two-year college (excluding summer sessions);
2. Average 12 hours of transferable degree credit for each semester or quarter attended; and
3. Have a minimum grade point average of 2.500 in your transferable credit hours.
If you do not meet all of the requirements of one of the two options listed above, you will not be permitted to compete in your first year of residence at that school. However, you will be eligible to practice and receive institutional financial aid at the Division I school, provided you are enrolled in a minimum full-time program of studies and meet applicable conference and institutional regulations.
 
 
Four-Two-Four Transfers
A student-athlete who transfers from a four-year college to a two-year college and then to the certifying institution shall be able to compete, practice, and receive institutional financial aid if:
 
1. Average 12 hours of transferable degree credit for each semester or quarter attended at the two-year college
2. Have a minimum grade point average of 2.500
3. One calendar year has elapsed since the student's departure from the four-year college; and
4. The student-athlete has graduated from the two-year college
 
If you do not meet all of the requirements listed above, you will not be permitted to compete in your first year of residence at the school.