Softball Transfer Portal

Not to focus on myself, but I am conveying personal experience. In Mechanical Engineering, I made Dean's List 7 out of 12 quarters. I did have a sophomore slump. She may be experiencing the same; but I hope not. I had a conversation with her at First Pitch last year; she is an extremely intelligent woman. I commended her for fulfilling two of her dreams, first to become a career engineer and secondly to play the sport she loves while preparing for it at the University and with the teammates that she loves. I'm with Ariel, no matter the path she chooses.

 

Ariel has chosen to leave. There is no indication what her next plans are.

 

Officially an Aggie

 

So is she with Gigante now?

 

Yes they are together again.

 

Former Florida infielder Ariel Kowalewski is transferring to Texas A&M, her new school announced on Tuesday evening.

D1 Softball by Justin McLeod
Kowalewski entered the transfer portal on December 3rd, within the established winter transfer window. As a midyear, undergraduate transfer, she is not eligible to play for the Aggies during the season and will have to sit out the year.

During her freshman season in 2024, Kowalewski started 56 games at third base for the Gators. She hit .308 on the[…]

 

Is that one of those things we could have waived to make her immediately eligible? I really don't understand the "sitting out" rules, but I seem to recall that Coach Murphy screwed Skylar Wallace when she came to UF by not waiving her sitting out a year.

 

It would appear she entered the portal after the normal period which is why she has to sit. Almost all players if academically eligible get atleast 1 free transfer without a year penalty IF they follow the guidelines for transfer. I think the SEC changed its own intraconferernce rules in 2021 allowing immediate eligibility. Back when Skylar transferred i believe we were under SEC rules that gave the coach authority to release or not. This whole situation with her has been anything but a normal transfer process which leads me to think it was a very difficult decision for her to make.