Chelsea Mitchell had just arrived in South Carolina, the final step of her transfer to Lander University, and the only thing she could think was that she had made a mistake.
I shouldn’t be here, she thought. She wanted to be back at Morgan State, where she had spent the first two seasons of her college basketball career. And now with no car and living by herself for the first time, all she wanted to do was go back to her comfort zone.
“I immediately regretted my decision,” Mitchell said. “I didn’t think I was ready for the big move.”
But it was already done; the transfer was official, and Mitchell had to stay in South Carolina for the 2017-18 season. The 5-foot-9 guard returned to Morgan State after one year, redshirting with the Bears in 2018-19. But the old Mitchell never came back.
