ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® Now Online

CoSIDA Members:

Beginning with the 2005-06 academic year, the
ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® process
will be done online. Here is a rundown of the new nomination process.

All nominations for the ESPN The Magazine
Academic All-America® program must be done online
through the CoSIDA Web site. Nominations will be
accepted only from current members.

To nominate student-athlete(s) for the ESPN The
Magazine Academic All-America® program, visit the Academic All-America®
site at
http://www.cosida.com/aa
and log in with your CoSIDA user name and
password. If you do not have your user name and
profile, click the link next to 'Forget your
login information?' and your user information
will be sent to the e-mail address that appears in the CoSIDA directory.

The online system automatically pulls in your
institution, district (I-VIII) and division
(University or College) from the CoSIDA database.
Members nominating from multi-divisional
institutions (those whose teams are Division I in
some sports and not others) must manually
override the division selection when applicable.
(e.g., Scenic College's teams primarily compete
in Division III, save for two teams that compete
in Division I. The online system will pull in
College Division for all of Scenic College's
nominations, but the Scenic College SID must
manually change the division to University
Division for nominations from the sports which compete in Division I).

Completing most of the rest of the nomination
form is a matter of choosing the sport and
position and filling in the blanks. There is a
data field for additional supporting nomination
which is limited to 500 characters. This data can
be copied and pasted from other applications.

When finished with the nomination form, hit
'submit' and the system will e-mail a pdf of the nomination form.

Repeat as necessary.

The nomination deadline for men's and women's
soccer is 5 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on
Tuesday, Oct. 18, while the nomination deadline
for football and volleyball is 5 p.m. Eastern
Daylight Time on Tuesday, Oct. 25.

REMINDERS:
The minimum GPA for the ESPN The Magazine
Academic All-America® program is 3.20. This MAY
NOT be rounded up to 3.20 — thus, a
student-athlete with a 3.199 GPA is not eligible.
Nominees must have a cumulative GPA of 3.20 or
better both as an undergrad AND in graduate
school. For example, a student-athlete with GPAs
of 3.0 in undergraduate work and 3.9 in graduate
school would not be eligible, even if the average
of the two combined was above 3.20.

The eligibility rule is very simple: an athlete
must have completed one full academic year at the
nominating institution. Thus, transfers,
redshirts, JUCO matriculations, etc. must have
completed one full academic year at the nominating institution to be
eligible.