Abstract
ABSTRACT Community colleges make up an important sector of postsecondary education by providing access to students from all backgrounds, including athletes with aspirations to find an alternative path to become recruited to the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I. This qualitative study draws from the transfer student capital framework to examine the experiences of college athletes who transferred from a community college to a Division I institution. Organized by themes, interviews with 11 participants revealed they faced several challenges, including (1) societal pressures of overcoming a community college stigma; (2) issues with meeting eligibility rules, transferring credits, and navigating recruitment; and (3) athletic challenges in dealing with the pressure to perform and fit in a new team. Participants utilized (4) transfer capital originating in the athletic space at the university to overcome these challenges and successfully transition to the environment at the 4-year institution.
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