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The podcast discusses the NCAA Transfer Portal and how it benefits athletes. The Transfer Portal allows athletes to switch schools and gives them more control in the process. Athletes notify their school of their intent to transfer and then enter the portal. There are specific windows for football players. Graduate transfers can enter the portal at any time. The host, Shania, shares her experience in the Transfer Portal and how she found a new school. She interviews her former teammate, Acacia, who also transferred. Acacia discusses the benefits of the portal, including building relationships and experiencing different schools and communities. Hello, my name is Shania Krumarty and welcome to my podcast, Transfer U. I created this podcast to further explain what the Transfer Portal is and how it has benefited many athletes. I also wanted to take time to highlight my teammates along with my own personal experiences with the NCAA Transfer Portal and how it has served me and my teammates. What is the Transfer Portal? The NCAA Transfer Portal was launched in the fall of 2018 as a tool to give athletes more say in the process of switching schools. To enter the portal, athletes notify the school of their intent to transfer. From there, the school's compliance department has 48 hours to put an athlete's name into the portal. Athletes then must enter the portal with one of the windows for football. It is 30 days, a 30-day period beginning Monday or a 15-day period in the spring. In order to be immediately eligible to play at their new school with the NCAA one-time free transfer rule, graduate transfers can enter the portal at any time. I started my collegiate volleyball career at Mississippi State. I committed to Mississippi State when I was a freshman in high school, and I was there for three years. I entered the Transfer Portal in December of 2022, where I remained in the portal for the duration of the spring. Sitting out in the spring allowed me to not feel all the pressure from the 30-day deadline of the winter semester Transfer Portal rules. I was able to take my time with my transfer process and visit all of the schools that I was interested in without being worried about starting school before the spring semester. Overall, my experience in the Transfer Portal was great, and I was able to find my new home at Arizona State. Now I'm joined by my former teammate, Acacia Brown, who also plays volleyball with me at Mississippi State and transferred and is now playing at New Mexico State. Hi, Acacia. Hi, Shania. So my first question is, do you think that the age that you committed made a difference in your first university? I absolutely think that it made a difference. I think that committing so young, when I didn't really know what I wanted to major in, or even know the whole of the university and the details of what went into committing to a four-year university, was a pretty big decision to make at that age. And I think the portal really allowed me to reassess at an older age what I really needed and what I needed to do to succeed later on. So what do you think that you benefited most from the portal, besides from just finding a new school and just being in a new program, the intangible qualities that you think? Maybe just friends, teammates, just other things? I think that the relationships built. I actually transferred twice. I've been to three different schools now. And you can't put a price on the relationships built. So being able to experience multiple different schools, multiple communities, multiple towns, stuff like that is something that really can't be taken for granted. And it's something that, without the portal, people would never get a chance to experience. And I kind of went to schools all around the country. So the experience from that is just, there's really no words for it. Thank you, Keisha. I appreciate you for joining our podcast today. And stay tuned for our next guest, Mary Schroll.
