Transfer from D1 to D2 or D3

Typically no need to sit.
Read the Transfer Guide. It covers most situations.

I read the transfer guide also, and I'm trying to find where it says that a D1 baseball player after his Soph year can transfer to D2 and play right away?


Little help?

Exceptions for Divisions I and II if you are in a four-year school
Exceptions for Divisions I and II if you are in a four-year school
If this is your first transfer…
If you have never transferred before from a four-year school, you might be able to use the one-time transfer exception to play
right away at a Division I or II school.
To use this exception, you must:
1. Be playing a sport other than baseball in Division I, basketball in Division I, men's ice hockey in Division I or football in Division
I. Note: In football you may be eligible to use this exception if:
a. You transfer from a Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A) school to a Football Championship Subdivision
(formerly Division I-AA) school and have at least two seasons of competition remaining; or
b. You transfer from a Football Championship Subdivision (formerly I-AA) school that offers athletics scholarships to a
Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA) that does not offer athletics scholarships.
Important Note: If you do not qualify for this exception due to any of the conditions in Subsection 1 above, you may
be able to use the exception if you were not recruited by your first four-year school AND have never received an athletics
scholarship.
2. Be in good academic standing and making progress toward your degree;
3. Have been considered eligible if you had stayed in your first school; and
4. Have a written release agreement from your first school saying that it does not object to your receiving an exception to
the transfer residence requirement. If your request for a written release is not provided within seven business days of the
previous institution receiving the request, the release shall be granted by default and the previous institution shall provide
a written release to you. Further, if the release is denied, you may be entitled to a hearing conducted by an institutional
entity or committee outside of the athletics department (e.g., the office of student affairs; office of the dean of students; or a
committee composed of the faculty athletics representative, student-athletes and nonathletics faculty/staff members).

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I'm trying to find where it says that a D1 baseball player after his Soph year can transfer to D2 and play right away?

But you follow this comment with a quotation from the transfer guide that says a D1 to D2 transfer can play right away. Which part isn't clear?

It is somewhat confusing when it says "Be playing a sport other than baseball in Division I"

Probably should read "Will be playing.....".

First time I read it, I interpreted it as the sport and Division that you are currently in while contemplating a transfer?

OK,
I see how that is confusing, and "will be playing" would be better phrasing. A player who is right now at a D1 is governed by D1 rules. If he transfers to a D2, then he is governed by the D2 rules, including eligibility for competition. The actual D2 bylaw (14.5.5.3.9) refers to a student who "transfers to the certifying institution from another four-year collegiate institution, and ...". That's longer than just saying "is playing at", but it is clearer.

Where is your son looking to transfer to and from?

He's accepted at a very good academic D1 as an invited walk-on despite being aggressively recruited at a good D3, he's elected the D1.
It was a very difficult decision, we weighed all the positives and negatives of both options.
I was simply researching options if he doesn't make the D1 team.