The texts blew up Baylee Douglass’ phone.
Her teammates couldn’t find her name on the new roster posted that morning, and they were searching for answers.
“Hey, what’s going on,” they asked.
Douglass, now a pitcher at Syracuse, had requested a transfer from Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. Douglass said Sandy Montgomery, her coach, had accepted her transfer request but asked her not tell anyone on the team. Then, Douglass said, the updated roster without her name was emailed to the team. After that, the texts came in.
She had listed seven schools as possible transfer destinations, including Syracuse, but then, Douglass said, the compliance office blocked Douglass from communicating with four of them.