Transfer Rules in Women's Hockey

[hockeynut4]

Can someone explain to me why the transfer rules in women's hockey are different from the men's? There are so many transfers at both the Div. I and III level in the women's game compared to the men's. It's got to be hard for coach's to have a recruiting strategy when player's decide to transfer at the last minute.

[taz91]

As far as I know the WCHA has the same transfer policy for both the men and women. If you transfer in you must sit a full season and it doesn't matter if it's D-1 to D-1 or D-3 to D-1.

[Cozmo Timothy]

As far as I know the WCHA has the same transfer policy for both the men and women. If you transfer in you must sit a full season and it doesn't matter if it's D-1 to D-1 or D-3 to D-1.

Though players transferring from D-III to D-I are rare, it seems that they do not have to sit out a year. When Salatino transferred from UW-Superior (D-III) to Minnesota State-Mankato (D-I) in 2002, she played right away.

[cbreitro]

Sometimes the NCAA give special waivers in other sports there is a special situations. I know that happened with the Duke men's lacrosse players, they were allowed to transfer without sitting out a year.

I wonder if that may apply to the BC women?

[sheba]

There have been several instances of transferring out from the WCAC to Hockey East and within HE transfers have not sat out... is the "sit out a year" just to discourage transferring WITHIN WCAC or does it affect new transfers from other leagues???

[WHKY blogger]

There have been several instances of transferring out from the WCAC to Hockey East and within HE transfers have not sat out... is the "sit out a year" just to discourage transferring WITHIN WCAC or does it affect new transfers from other leagues???

I remember hearing before that the WCHA had that rule because of the three Big Ten members that have to observe that rule in all of their other sports for athletes that transfer within the conference. It was originally adapted to keep football teams from "Cherry picking" the best players away from other teams to create a better overall team, it was adopted by the other sports several years after.

[MikeAnderson]

Can someone explain to me why the transfer rules in women's hockey are different from the men's? There are so many transfers at both the Div. I and III level in the women's game compared to the men's. It's got to be hard for coach's to have a recruiting strategy when player's decide to transfer at the last minute.

The only sports that have to sit out are football, basketball and men's ice hockey, and all at the Division I level. My guess is that with the money involved and the fact that the NCAA serves as a primary development bed for each of these sports, they want to limit the amount of shuffling in attempts to earn a higher draft status.

The NCAA is not baseball's primary development bed. Many players go through 2-3 seasons of minor league ball before playing at the MLB level, thus the difference. Though it seems hockey is starting to trend in this direction.

[WHKY blogger]

The only sports that have to sit out are football, basketball and men's ice hockey, and all at the Division I level. My guess is that with the money involved and the fact that the NCAA serves as a primary development bed for each of these sports, they want to limit the amount of shuffling in attempts to earn a higher draft status.

The NCAA is not baseball's primary development bed. Many players go through 2-3 seasons of minor league ball before playing at the MLB level, thus the difference. Though it seems hockey is starting to trend in this direction.

Certain Conferences have their own standards as far a transfers, I believe thats more what was being asked here was what the reasons and requirements for them are.

[ARM]

Certain Conferences have their own standards as far a transfers, I believe thats more what was being asked here was what the reasons and requirements for them are.Does anyone in women's hockey have a transfer rule other than the WCHA? And even that only involves transfers from one WCHA school to another -- a player doesn't have to sit a year if transferring into or out of the conference.