CoSIDA Colleagues,
With the number of power outages along with the overall effects from the storm in the Eastern part of the country,
the 2013 Capital One Academic All-America® Hall of Fame nominations deadline is being extended to Friday, November 9th. The original deadline was Friday, Nov. 2.
The 2013 Capital One Academic All-America® Hall of Fame Induction set to take place in Orlando on June 12, 2013 during the CoSIDA Convention. The nominations are being done on-line again this year.
You will have access to the nomination form until Friday, Nov. 9th, and you can start a nomination, save it and open it again to fill in any information. You will need your CoSIDA login and password to access the system as with the Academic All-America® program. You can submit all of your nominations in the on-line form available at
http://www.cosida.com/Awards/allamerica.aspx.
Once you are in Capital One Academic All-America® Hall of Fame system, you will have two options. First - to make a new nomination. Second - to work on previously submitted nominations.
In the second section,
if you nominated a student-athlete for the 2009, 2010, 2011 and/or 2012 Capital One Academic All-America® Hall of Fame, that nomination is available for you to update. Once a student-athlete is nominated for the Capital One Academic All-America® Hall of Fame, their nomination will remain in the system.
Honorary Inductee nominatons being accepted
Also, the Academic All-America® Committee is looking for Honorary Inductee Nominations. An Honorary Inductee is a person who, or an organization which, has made a significant contribution to the Academic All-America® Committee, Teams or Hall of Fame. The honorary designation may be awarded to a former scholar-athlete whose collegiate career pre-dated the Academic All-America® program in his/her particular sport. The eligible candidates' academic and athletic achievements must meet minimum criteria for selection to the Hall of Fame.
Questions?
If you have any questions or problems with the on-line nomination process for the 2013 Capital One Academic All-America® Hall of Fame, please contact:
• Mark Fleming, Moravian College Sports Information Director and Coordinator of the Capital One Academic All-America® Hall of Fame program at
sportsinfo@moravian.edu
or
• Steven Shaff, Northern Arizona University Assistant AD/Media Relations, Coordinator of the Capital One Academic All-America® Hall of Fame program at
steven.shaff@nau.edu