14.5.5.1 General Rule. An undergraduate transfer student from a four-year institution is eligible for intercollegiate competition provided one of the following applies: (Revised: 1/10/91 effective 8/1/91, 5/7/10, 1/19/13, 4/20/21, 8/5/24)

(a) The student has never practiced nor competed in intercollegiate athletics;
(Adopted: 8/5/24)

(b) The student would have been academically eligible at the time of transfer to the certifying institution (see Bylaw 14.5.2), had they remained at the previous institution; or (Adopted: 8/5/24)

(c) Two year nonparticipation. For a consecutive two-year period immediately before the date on which the student begins participation (practice and/or competition), the student has neither practiced nor competed in the involved sport in intercollegiate competition and has neither practiced nor competed in organized noncollegiate amateur competition while enrolled as a full-time student in a collegiate institution. This two-year period does not include any period of time before the student's initial collegiate enrollment. (Adopted: 8/5/24)