CoSIDA Members: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.
Nominations will be accepted only from current CoSIDA members who are active, dues-paying members for the 2009-10 academic year.To nominate student-athlete(s) for the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® program, visit the Academic All-America® Web site at
http://www.cosida.com/aa and log in with your CoSIDA user name and password.
#USERNAME#
#PASSWORD#
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.
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 receipt for the nomination. Repeat as necessary.
The nomination deadline is 6 p.m., Eastern Time, on Tuesday, January 19, but please don't wait until the last minute!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 3.30 (on a 4.0 scale) in BOTH undergrad and graduate work. This MAY NOT be rounded up to 3.30 — thus, a student-athlete with a 3.299 GPA is not eligible. « Nominees in graduate school must have a cumulative GPA of 3.30 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 3.30.
« 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 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 (when applicable) in the field for academic and athletic accomplishments.
Questions?
Please contact:
Mark Beckenbach
Associate Chair, Internal Operations
CoSIDA Academic All-America® Committee
mlbecken@owu.edu