As the first Capital One Academic All-District team announcements (for men's and women's soccer) are upcoming in November, the following note to CoSIDA members is written by the CoSIDA Academic All-America® Committee. CoSIDA members are asked to make note of the correct usage of the program's name, use of the registered trademark, help publicize the Capital One Academic All-America® website and other important matters noted below.
CoSIDA Members:
As the first Capital One Academic All-America® teams of the season are selected in the coming weeks, I’m writing with a few helpful reminders on using proper terms and marks when publicizing the accomplishments of your student-athletes.
CoSIDA and Capital One are proud to continue their partnership in presenting the Capital One Academic All-America® Teams as selected by CoSIDA.
Capital One is in its third year as the presenting sponsor of our program, which honors nearly 2,000
student-athletes at the national level and 4,000 student-athletes at the district level for their all-around accomplishments in the classroom, in the community and in competition.
Here are some helpful reminders on properly publicizing your honorees:
*Please remember to refer to teams as the “Capital One Academic All-America® Team as selected by CoSIDA (or the College Sports Information Directors of America). This tagline must be used when referring to either the district or national teams in all instances without exception. Please use the registered trademark (®) symbol whenever possible as well.
*Capital One has launched a website devoted to the Academic All-America® program which we also ask to help promote throughout the year, and that URL is
www.CapitalOneAcademicAllAmerica.com. If you have a student-athlete selected as the Academic All-America® of the Year in his or her respective program, you will be contacted directly by members of the Academic All-America® Committee on additional promotional materials.
*CoSIDA and Capital One hold the exclusive trademark on the term “Academic All-America®”. With that in mind, please do not refer to any coaches association’s team or any other collegiate organization’s programs with the term “Academic All-America®”. For example, the National Field Hockey Coaches Association selects an All-Academic team, not an Academic All-America® team. Your help and cooperation in maintaining the exclusive trademark is greatly appreciated. We ask that you be diligent about enforcing proper use of the term, and if you see any organization or school infringing upon that trademark, please contact Academic All-America® Committee Chair Emeritus Dick Lipe (
rlipe@bentley.edu) or CoSIDA Executive Director John Humenik (
jhumenik@bellsouth.net) immediately.
*Capital One has developed a specific mark (logo) for use in publicizing all teams at both the district and national levels. If you would like to receive a copy of this mark, please e-mail either myself (
jseavey@maritime.edu) or Barb Kowal, CoSIDA’s Director of External Affairs (
barbkowal@cosida.com).
*Additional information on the Academic All-America® program can be found on the CoSIDA homepage at
http://www.cosida.com/Awards/allamerica.aspx.
Once again, thank you for your continued support of the Capital One Academic All-America®. Please remember to nominate deserving student-athletes in all of our programs throughout the year, and keep in mind that all nominations for the Capital One Academic All-America® Hall of Fame must be submitted within the next 10 days. Please feel free to contact me at any time if you have additional questions.
Sincerely,
Jim Seavey
Associate Chair, Marketing/Hall of Fame Event Operations
CoSIDA Academic All-America® Committee