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It is my understanding that her freshman year is not an issue. Call it a redshirt, no medical hardship required. Of course anything past her freshman year is an issue so if she is forced to sit her sophmore/transfer year then she loses a year of eligibility due to the 5 year window. The only way to get back that 4th year of eligibility is to get a 6th year added to the window. And to get back that sixth year the only reasons I know of is medical hardship. And that doesn't work here: the freshmen year is a redshirt and the sophmore year is transfer.In Prince's case, she would almost certainly be eligible for a medical hardship waiver to restore her freshman year of eligibility, regardless of whether she stays at Texas or transfers to another school.
This situation is discussed in the article I linked to above, excerpted below:
Medical Red-shirts and the Five-Year Clock
Athletes must keep in mind both the five-year clock and their four seasons of competition. Even if an athlete gets a medical hardship waiver, he or she needs to have time left on their five-year clock (10-semester/15-quarter clock in Divisions II and III) to use that season.
This is problematic for athletes took a normal redshirt season or sat out due to a transfer. An athlete can generally not use a medical redshirt in those cases unless they get a clock extension or sixth year waiver. To do that the athlete show they lost two seasons outside of his or her control. The medical redshirt would be one, but the athlete would still need to show another.
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