Welcome to Transfer Athletes

Five minutes, seven steps — and you're wired straight into the transfer portal. Watch the full walkthrough below, or follow the written steps at your own pace.

Takes ~5 minutes • 7 simple steps • No tech experience needed

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The full walkthrough

3 minutes, narrated, start to finish. Every step below also has its own short clip if you'd rather watch just one part.

What you'll do

The 7 steps at a glance

  1. Log in
  2. Invite your staff
  3. Install the extension
  4. Search an athlete
  5. Bulk search the page
  6. Search off the portal
  7. Filter your master list
Important: You must use Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge. Our extension does not work on Safari.
1

Log in

Sign in with your school email and the temporary password that was sent over to you.

Open Transfer Athletes
The Transfer Athletes sign-in screen with Email Address and Password fields and a Sign in to Transfer Athletes button.
Sign in at app.transferathletes.com — you'll land on your My Athletes list.
Assistant coaches: You'll get a separate invitation email — use the link in that email to create your own login.
2

Invite your staff

To add your staff, click Settings, toggle over to the Licenses tab, enter their email, and hit Send Invite. They'll get an email and create their own login to sign in with.

The Licenses tab showing Total Seats, Available Seats and Used Seats, with an email typed into the Invite New User field next to a Send Invite button.
Settings → Licenses → type their email → Send Invite.

The same screen shows how many seats you have left, everyone currently on the account, and any invites still pending.

  • Admin — full access: account management, license & billing, search & edit athletes, send tracers.
  • Coach — limited access: search & view athletes only.
3

Install the extension

Next you'll install the app that links your new account to your transfer portal account. Click the link below right from this guide.

Install the extension

1. Add it. Click the big blue Add or Get button, depending on your browser, then confirm in the popup.

The Transfer Athletes Search listing in the Chrome Web Store with the blue Add to Chrome button in the top right.
Click the big blue button in the top right of the store page.

2. Pin it so the blue logo stays visible in your toolbar. Click the puzzle-piece icon at the top right of your browser, then click the pin next to Transfer Athletes Search.

The browser extensions menu open, showing Transfer Athletes Search with a pin icon beside it.
Puzzle-piece icon → pin Transfer Athletes Search.

3. Sign in with the same login details from Step 1. Click the blue logo in your toolbar and enter your email and password.

The extension popup showing the signed-in coach, their sport, and a green Account synced and activated banner.
You're done when you see "Account synced and activated" in green at the bottom.
For your security, your login refreshes once a day — so you'll sign in again each morning to keep your search results fresh and up to date. It only takes a few seconds.
4

Search an athlete

There are three ways to search with Transfer Athletes. This is the first — one athlete at a time.

Log in to the NCAA Transfer Portal as normal, in the same browser you installed the extension on. A new TWL column appears on the left of the table with a blue arrow next to every athlete.

The NCAA Transfer Portal table with a TWL column added on the left, showing a blue Transfer Athletes arrow beside each athlete's row.
Click the blue arrow next to any athlete and the full scouting report builds itself.

When it's done, the arrow becomes a green checkbox. Click it to open the report — bio, eligibility, stats, NIL valuation, social media, and a written scouting overview.

An athlete profile page showing name, position, height, division, conference, transferring-from school, star rating and a written overview.
The finished scouting report, built automatically.
5

Bulk search the page

The second way — search the whole page at once.

  1. Toggle the Transfer Portal's Display dropdown to show 500 rows at a time.
  2. Click Search All at the top right.
  3. Confirm in the popup — it tells you how many new athletes it found and roughly how long it'll take.
A Search All Athletes confirmation dialog reading 449 new athletes to search, estimated time 9 to 11 minutes, with Cancel and Search All buttons.
Search All tells you the count and the estimated time before it starts.

It runs everything in the background. When it's done, every athlete has that green checkbox that you and your staff can click straight through to.

The portal table after a bulk search, with a green checkmark on every athlete row.
Green checkmarks all the way down — every athlete on the page is scouted.
Pro tip: Set the row count to 500 before you hit Search All. That way one click pulls up to 500 athletes instead of 50.
6

Search off the portal

The third way — even athletes who aren't in the portal can be scouted. NAIA, JUCO and international athletes all work.

Go to the Athlete Search tab on the left side, enter their first name, last name and current college, then click Run AI Search and let the scouting agent do the rest.

The Add a New Athlete form with First Name, Last Name and Current College filled in, above a Run AI Search button.
Athlete Search → name and current college → Run AI Search.

A typical search takes 30–60 seconds. You can navigate away while it runs — it keeps processing in the background and shows up in your sidebar until it's finished.

Give it the college. At least three letters of their current school noticeably improves accuracy.
7

Filter your master list

This is the real reason to use Transfer Athletes. Every search — single, bulk or off-portal — lands in the same list. Open My Athletes and click Show Filters.

The Bio Filters panel with Position, Division, Conference, Stars, Seasons Left, Height, Weight, Major, State, Initiated Date and Lists controls.
Bio filters up top, stats filters underneath — type values or pick from the dropdowns.
  • Bio filters — position, division, conference, stars, seasons left, height, weight, major, state, date entered, and your own saved lists.
  • Stats filters — set a min and max on games played, minutes, goals, assists, points and more, for a recent season or a career total.

Each filter you add shows up as a chip you can remove, and the athletes found count updates as you go.

The Select Columns dropdown open over a filtered athlete table, with checkboxes for Position, Stars, State, Division, Conference, Current College, Major, Height and Weight.
Use Columns to add or remove any of the 43 available columns.

Add and remove columns on the table, drag them into the order you want, and click any header to sort by it. When you're happy with the list, Export it to a spreadsheet.

A filtered athlete list narrowed to 22 athletes, with filter chips for STEM, GP greater than 3 and Minutes greater than 200 shown above the table.
Thousands of portal athletes down to a shortlist in seconds.

If something isn't working

Quick troubleshooting

Searches aren't working when I click the blue arrow or Search All
Click the blue arrow logo in your browser's toolbar, click Logout in the panel that drops down, and sign back in there — in that panel, not on the portal website. Then refresh the Transfer Portal page and try again.
The "Search All" button is greyed out and won't run
Click to a different page (like page 2), then click back to your original page. This usually unsticks it.
I've logged out and logged back in already, but it keeps telling me to do it again

This one catches almost everybody, and it's an easy mix-up to make — there are two separate things you're signed in to, and they look a lot alike.

  • The NCAA Transfer Portal — the website itself, in the browser tab.
  • Transfer Athletes — our little app, behind the blue arrow logo in your browser's toolbar, up next to the address bar.

It's ours you need to sign out of, not the portal. Signing out of the portal won't change anything here.

So: click the blue arrow logo in your toolbar. A small panel drops down — the same one from Step 3. Click Logout at the bottom of that panel, then sign back in there with your email and password. Once you've done that, refresh your Transfer Portal tab and your searches will work again.

The top-right of a browser window. The Transfer Athletes blue arrow logo in the toolbar is circled and marked 1, and the Logout button at the bottom of the panel below it is boxed and marked 2.
1 — the blue arrow logo in your toolbar. 2 — Logout, at the bottom of the panel that opens.

If you can't spot the blue arrow in your toolbar, it just isn't pinned yet — Step 3 shows you how, and it takes about five seconds.

A search seems stuck or won't finish
Refresh the page and give it a few seconds to load. The button should turn blue once the page is ready. Bulk searches of 400+ athletes genuinely take around 10 minutes.
I'm seeing missing or incomplete stats on some athletes
We update athletes and their stats on a regular schedule, so newer entries may have incomplete info that fills in later. Check back in a day or two.
The extension isn't showing up at all
Make sure you're using Chrome or Microsoft Edge — Safari is not supported. Then revisit Step 3 to make sure the extension is installed and pinned.
I can't find an athlete who isn't in the portal
Use Step 6 — Athlete Search will scout NAIA, JUCO and international athletes who never appear in the NCAA portal.

Still stuck?

Reach out anytime — we're happy to help you get set up.
Email support@transferathletes.com