GREEM BAY (NBC 26) — A pilot transfer agreement between St. Norbert College (SNC), Bellin College and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is helping student-athletes like Madison DeCleene have “the best of two worlds.”

The new program allows student-athletes who complete two years at SNC and meet NCAA requirements to continue their college athletic careers at Bellin College.

DeCleene was the first student accepted into the program.

She received the news as she was preparing her ‘goodbye’ to college athletics last spring, at the end of her sophomore year.

“I immediately started happy crying,” DeCleene remembered. “And, I called my family, like, ‘I can still run!”

The track and cross country athlete had enrolled at SNC as a nursing major with the understanding that her s

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