ESPN The Magazine AAA Basketball Team Process Underway

The nomination forms for the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America men's
and women's basketball programs are now available!

All nominations for the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America program
must be done online through the CoSIDA Web site. Faxed nominations cannot
be accepted. Nominations will be accepted only from current members.
Members may nominate student-athletes from their own institution only.

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.

Once you have logged in, click on the link that says 'Nominate a
Student-Athlete.'

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 you a pdf of the nomination form.

Repeat as necessary.

The nomination deadline for the men's and women's basketball programs is 6
p.m., Eastern Standard Time, on Tuesday, Jan. 24.

REMINDERS:
The nominee must be a starter or important reserve with legitimate
athletic credentials.

Nominees must have a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.20 (on a
4.0 scale) in BOTH undergrad and graduate work. This MAY NOT be rounded up
to 3.20 - thus, a student-athlete with a 3.199 GPA is not eligible.
Nominees in graduate school 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 is
above 3.20.

Nominees must have reached sophomore athletic and academic standing at
your institution (true freshmen, red-shirt freshmen and ineligible
athletic transfers are not eligible) and must have completed at least one
full academic year at your institution.

Nominees must have participated in at least 50 percent of the team's
games.

The basketball programs are not selected by position, so please remember
to include the nominee's position in the field for academic and athletic
accomplishments.