August 2012 Issue
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Full monthly enewsletter
Thank you for taking the time to read this month’s e-newsletter. Please link to the subheaders below which will take you to the different sections of the August 2012 e-newsletter where you can read more on each subject.
CoSIDA Membership for 2012-13 & Directory Information
2012-13 CoSIDA Leadership
Continuing Education
Strategic Branding Review Updates
Committee Based
Capital One Academic All-America® program
National Organization Initiatives
Marketing & Communications
Sponsorships
CoSIDA Master Monthly Schedule
CoSIDA 2012-13 Membership Renewal and Directory Update
• PAY ANNUAL DUES FOR 2012-13 - FRIDAY, SEPT. 14 DEADLINE
The new membership period for 2012-13 began on February 1; these dues will cover the period from purchase through September 15 of 2013. The deadline to pay 2013-14 and not incur a late fee is FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14.
Please remember: You must be a current CoSIDA member to nominate for - and vote on - Capital One Academic All-America® All-District Team honors.
IF YOU REGISTERED FOR THE 2012 COSIDA ST. LOUIS CONVENTION, that DID NOT cover your dues payment – that is a separate payment/transaction. Link to the CoSIDA membership/dues page HERE.
(A $30.00 late fee will be accessed if dues are paid after Sept. 14; there are exceptions to this, found at the link above. Any first-time CoSIDA member and any professional who is in transition or changing jobs after Sept. 14 will pay only the regular membership fees.) Dues are $115.00 (active members), $125 (associate members) and $35 (students/interns).
If you have any questions, please contact Will Roleson (willroleson@cosida.com).
• CoSIDA E-DIRECTORY INFORMATION
We are now moving full speed ahead with many planning projects for the upcoming year and need your cooperation in updating your organization’s directory information. Accuracy of the 2012-13 E-Directory can only be achieved with your help. We respectively request your assistance in this regard by FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14.
• Those who have moved into a new position or who have had staff changes recently are reminded to update their personal and/or organizational CoSIDA E-Directory information. There is an online directory and a PDF version of the directory. You can access your information and update it and/or request custodial status of your organization's account so you can update staff and organizational information, pay dues online, etc., by going HERE.
If you find inaccurate information for your school/organization we ask you to please go to CoSIDA.com and do the following:
- select the Membership link; at the pull-down menu at the top of CoSIDA’s site, select "Update Your Directory Information"
- Everyone can update their personal information here; to update your school/organization information, you MUST be the custodian of your account.
- If you wish to have custodial status, you can request that information on the page noted above. If you require assistance, use this link: http://cosida.com/contact.aspx.
Questions? Please contact Will Roleson, CoSIDA Director of Internal Operations, at willroleson@cosida.com.
CoSIDA Leadership
Joe Hornstein (Florida International University) will serve as President for the upcoming year with Shelly Poe (Auburn) as 1st Vice President, Eric McDowell (Union - N.Y.) serving as 2nd VP and Judy Willson (Mountain West Conference) as 3rd VP.
Secretary/E-Digest Editor Jeff Hodges (North Alabama) is the remaining officer on the Board. Past Presidents who will serve as officers on the 2012-13 Board are Tom Di Camillo (Pacific West Conference/Central Arizona College), Larry Dougherty (Temple) and Justin Doherty (Wisconsin).
Returning as At-Large Representatives are Ed Hill (Howard) and Kent Brown (Illinois). College Division Representatives returning to the Board are Mark Fleming (Moravian), Cindy Fotti (Columbia College- Mo.), Steve Flegel (Whitworth), Greg Goings (Bowie State) and Dave Walters (Guilford).
New Board At-Large Representatives appointed are Rob Carolla (Big 12 Conference) and Dan Drutz (Saint Peter's) while the new College Divisional rep is Mark Adkins (Manchester). CoSIDA's Executive Director John Humenik, Barb Kowal (Director of External Affairs) and Will Roleson (Director of Internal Operations/ Treasurer) will continue to serve on the CoSIDA Board in ex-officio capacities.
A complete list of roles/responsibilities and duties for the 2012-13 Board members is found HERE.
• Several CoSIDA leadership groups have finalized their respective boards for the 2012-13 academic year. Among them:
2012-13 CoSIDA College Division Management Advisory Committee [CDMAC]
Chair – Blake Timm (Pacific, Ore.)
Greg Goings (Bowie State) - President of NCAA DII-SIDA and CoSIDA Board
Larry Happel (Central, Iowa) - President of NCAA DIII-SIDA
Jay Stancil (Union, Ky.) - President of NAIA-SIDA
Ben Matchett (Calgary) – President of CIS (Canadian Interuniversity Sport) SID Committee
Mary Beth Challoner (Toronto)
Steve Flegel (Whitworth) – CoSIDA Board
Tom Di Camillo (Pacific West Conference) - CoSIDA Past President
Mark Fleming (Moravian) – CoSIDA Board
Cindy Fotti (Columbia, Mo.) – CoSIDA Board
David Sherwood (Wingate)
Michael McEachern (Young Harris)
Kim Wenger (Centennial Conference)
Mike Stafford, Jr. (College of Idaho)
Dave Walters (Guilford) – CoSIDA Board
Dave Wrath (Augustana, Ill.)
2012-13 NAIA-SIDA Officers
President - Jay Stancil, Union (Ky.) College
First Vice President – Cindy Fotti, Columbia (Mo.)
Past President - Sam Ghrist, Eastern Oregon
At- Large Representative- Aaron Sagraves, Davenport (Mich.)
At-Large Representative – Patrick Moore, Madonna (Mich.)
At-Large - Steve Wilson, Park (Mo.)
At-Large - Adam Ledyard, Judson (Ill.)
NCAA Division II- SIDA BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Officers
President – Gregory Goings – Bowie State
1st VP – Dennis Jezek – Barry
2nd VP – John Kean – Missouri S & T
Secretary – Joey Roberts – Tarleton State
Regional Representatives:
East - Chuck Sadowski, Bridgeport
Atlantic – Bob McComas, Slippery Rock
Southeast – Chad Jackson, Armstrong-Atlantic
South – Antoine Bell, Alabama Huntsville
South Central – Dan Wilkes, Pittsburg State
Central – Anne Abicht, St. Cloud State
Midwest – Ray Simmon , Southern Indiana
West – Joe Danahey, San Francisco State
2012-13 Canadian InterUniversity Sports Communications Committee
Ben Matchett, Calgary (President)
Michel Belanger, CIS national office
Jason Ilacqua, CIS national office
Chris Zuk, Manitoba (Canada West rep)
Michelle Pino, Guelph (Ontario rep)
Stéphane Jobin, Laval (Quebec rep)
Shayne Menecola, Memorial (Atlantic rep)
Earl Zukerman, McGill (at-large rep)
John Keefe, Atlantic University Sport (at-large rep)
2012-13 Football Championship Subdivision Management Advisory Committee
Chair – Scottie Rodgers (Ivy League)
Vice-Chair – Trevor Parks (Youngstown State)
FCS CONFERENCE REPRESENTATIVES
Big Sky Conference – Steve Shaff (Northern Arizona)
Big South Conference –Jack Frost (Winthrop)
Colonial Athletic Association – Scott Selheimer (Delaware)
Ivy League – Scottie Rodgers (Ivy League)
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference – Patricia Porter (Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference)
Missouri Valley Conference –Trevor Parks (Youngstown State)
Northeast Conference – Greg Viscomi (Monmouth)
Ohio Valley Conference –Richard Moser (Eastern Illinois)
Patriot League – Matt Dougherty (Patriot League)
Southern Conference – Erica Madden Roberson (Elon)
Southland Conference – Paul Ridings (Sam Houston State)
Southwestern Athletic Conference –Duane Lewis (Alabama State)
I-AAA Management Advisory Committee
Chair – Tom Eiser (Xavier)
Vice-Chair – Oliver Pierce (Gonzaga)
I-AAA CONFERENCE REPRESENTATIVES
America East Conference – Sean Tainsh (America East Conference)
Atlantic 10 Conference – Tom Eiser (Xavier)
Atlantic Sun Conference – Pat Pierson (Florida Gulf Coast)
Big West Conference – Todd Miles (Long Beach State)
Horizon League – Bob Noss (Wright State)
Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference – Matt Reitnour (Canisius College)
Summit League – Jason Hove (South Dakota State)
West Coast Conference – Oliver Pierce (Gonzaga)
At-Large – Mark Fratto (St. John’s)
Continuing Education Sessions
CoSIDA’s 2012-13 year continuing education program will kick off within the next month and a schedule will be announced soon.
John Humenik and Barb Kowal continue to work with NewTek, CoSIDA’s official continuing education video production provider, to finalize for presentation this fall several taped sessions from the St. Louis Convention. These convention sessions will be provided to our membership from late August- December as the prominent piece of our fall/early winter continuing education initiatives. The CoSIDA Board would like to thank NewTek as well as ASAP Sports (CoSIDA’s official instant transcript services provider) and TRZ Sports /Teamline (CoSIDA’s official conference call provider) for their support of CoSIDA’s continuing education initiatives.
CoSIDA 2nd VP Eric McDowell (Union- N.Y.) will coordinate our programming for the 2013 CoSIDA Convention in Orlando. If you have ideas in that regard or want to coordinate a specific session, please contact him at mcdowele@union.edu.
Judy Willson (Mountain West Conference), 3rd VP, will coordinate our conference call/webinar continuing education program from September- May. If you have ideas or want to present on a call/webcast, Judy can be contacted via jwillson@themwc.com.
Strategic Branding Review Update
In May, CoSIDA’s Board of Directors entered a partnership agreement with Cryder-Rinebold of Indianapolis to conduct a branding-based review of CoSIDA during the course of the next 12-15 months. The letter on this topic to the membership, from CoSIDA’s 2011-12 President Tom Di Camillo, along with a list of major reasons for this important process, can be accessed HERE.
Over the past two months Dennis Cryder and JoJo Rinebold began the interview focus meetings aspect of this evaluation with several organizations. They met with members of the ECAC-SIDA Board in Pittsburgh on June 5th and then attended the CoSIDA Convention in St. Louis where they held interview sessions with the CoSIDA Board as well as nine CoSIDA divisional /advocacy boards. Eric McDowell, John Humenik and Barb Kowal met with Cryder Rinebold in Indianapolis on July 11-12th to further plan the next few months of this review process. Humenik is now working with Cryder Rinebold to setup meetings for them to conduct focus meetings with other groups in intercollegiate athletics (AD’s, commissioners, NACDA affiliates, NCAA, NAIA, etc) to discuss CoSIDA and the profession from their perspective
An online survey for our full membership on this important process is being completed. We hope that you will take the time to complete it when received in the future so that we gather appropriate and needed feedback.
Committee Related
President Joe Hornstein, along with CoSIDA’s officers and staff, continue to work with Debbie Copp (Oklahoma), Chair of the Committee on Committee, to finalize the committee listings for the upcoming year. All of the Committee Chairs have been asked by the CoSIDA officers to provide a specific set of goals/objectives for the upcoming year by mid-August. When received, they will be placed on our website for your review. Want to join a committee or learn more about a committee? Please contact Copp via email for more information (dcopp@ou.edu).
Click HERE for more information on 2012-13 Committees (committee descriptions, chairs and Board liasons).
• In August, updated information on the following will be updated: the AAA Committee list of chairs, vice-chairs and district representatives and the district nominating/voting maps for all four divisions.
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CoSIDA.com for the latest Capital One Academic All-District and Academic All-America® information. We remind everyone that you must be a member of CoSIDA to nominate your deserving student-athletes and vote on the Academic All-District ballots.
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CoSIDA, in conjunction with corporate partner Capital One, has launched a new Capital One Academic All-America website. The website, developed by a Capital One’ partner ad agency Campfire, is:
http://www.capitaloneacademicallamerica.com/. There is tremendous historical and current AAA content already on the site and it will be fully developed during the 2012-13 academic year.
• The Board and Academic All-America® Committee leadership remind CoSIDA members that CoSIDA's "Academic All-America®"mark is federally registered. As such, CoSIDA members must help the Board and AAA Committee monitor the wrongful use of this registered trademark. If you see any other organizations, including coaching associations, using this registered trademark, immediately contact CoSIDA Executive Director John Humenik (
johnhumenik@cosida.com) or Academic All-America Committee member Dick Lipe (
rlipe@bentley.edu). We will have our legal counsel, Collegiate Images, follow up with a letter regarding infringement of our federally registered mark and they will be asked to "cease and desist" from future use of that mark.
Many times during the year we find that our own membership is using "Academic All-America®" in releases that they prepare for student-athletes receiving academic achievement awards from other organizations - when in fact those organizations refer to their awards as "All-Academic," "Scholar-Athlete," "Academic All-Star," etc.
We remind CoSIDA members to be cognizant of only using "Academic All-America®" in relation to CoSIDA's Capital One partnership program. There are NO exceptions and you should make sure your administrative staff and coaches understand that they do not have the right to take another award that is being presented for combined academic/athletic excellence by coach’s associations or other organizations and change it to “Academic All-America®” instead of its appropriate title given by that awarding organization.
NCAA
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CoSIDA Executive Director John Humenik, Director of External Affairs Barb Kowal and 2nd VP Eric McDowell (Union- N.Y.) traveled to the NCAA offices in Indianapolis from July 12-13. They met with the following NCAA departments during the course of their two days of meetings: National SAAC, Division II, Division III, Championships/Alliances, Statistics, Communications, Digital/Social Media Strategies and NCAA News/
Champion Magazine.
NACDA
• John Humenik, Barb Kowal and Will Roleson will meet with the NACDA staff in Cleveland on Sept. 17-18.
CoSIDA’s “NACDA Transition Team” continues to update and refine a “Frequently Asked Questions” document to address several questions associated with this convention. Review the current NACDA FAQ document
HERE. We strongly encourage all members to review this in preparation for CoSIDA’s Convention moving to the NACDA Convention site in Orlando from June 12-15th, 2013.
CoSIDA’s leadership continues to have the opportunity to discuss our organization and profession via a “CoSIDA Corner” column that is published in each issue of NACDA’s
Athletics Administration Magazine. The NACDA magazine, which is published in October, November, December, February, March, April, June and August, is sent to more than 10,000 university and athletics administrators. That, combined with the exposure that CoSIDA receives via NACDA’s daily email blast, provides CoSIDA incredible exposure throughout the full intercollegiate community, something that was not the case prior to CoSIDA’s partnership agreement with NACDA that was agreed to in Dec. of 2008.
• During the month of July, 15 CoSIDA-based stories appeared on NACDA’s Daily Review email blast. There were 18 Daily Review emails during the month. Through the Daily Review email, thousands of university and athletics administrators are exposed to professional and organizational news. This outreach primarily came about due to CoSIDA’s decision in December 2008 to become an affiliated partner within the NACDA organizational umbrella.
• Also in June, three CoSIDA-based features/stories were featured on NCAA.com websites.
• In July, 30 articles were posted on
CoSIDA.com. The
CoSIDA Twitter page had 275 tweets/postings, all of them of an informative nature with breaking news and timely topics for athletic communication professionals.
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CoSIDA LinkedIn group continues to attract members and the group now totals 1,450+ members and is actively holding discussions, soliciting final convention panelists and sharing articles and videos of interest to athletic communicators.
• CoSIDA’s fund raising organizational team that was put together to raise funds/sponsorships for the 2012 convention and 2012-13 academic year resulted in a CoSIDA record for annual sponsorship support for the upcoming fiscal year with more than $540,000 raised in cash sponsorships and over $600,000 in total sponsor support (cash and trade out services). Since CoSIDA brought an Executive Director onboard in March of 2008 organizational cash fund-raising/sponsorships have grown by 160 percent.
Fifty-seven (57) groups stepped forward in support of the recent CoSIDA convention and/or the upcoming academic year. CoSIDA’s leadership kindly ask that you take some time to drop these folks a thank you note for their support.
You can access that
sponsorship directory HERE (PDF) or view in on
this page.
• The following companies/sponsors have CoSIDA "official provider" recognition for the balance of the 2012-13 academic year.
Capital One - Entitlement rights holder for CoSIDA's Academic All-America® program
SIDEARM - Official provider of CoSIDA's website (including Academic All-America® online nomination and selection system, Career Center, Online Directory, awards and online membership systems)
ASAP Sports - CoSIDA's official instant transcripts provider
TextCaster - CoSIDA's official and exclusive text messaging services provider and partner
NewTek - CoSIDA's official continuing education video production provider
TRZ Sports/Teamline - CoSIDA's official teleconference call provider
Sports Systems - CoSIDA's official online convention registration provider
Populous - CoSIDA's official convention registration badge printer and provider
XOS Digital - CoSIDA's official legal services provider for the Academic All-America® program
• Access the updated calendar of events/deadlines for the August 1-October 31 period
HERE. We encourage all members to review this closely so you are aware of important dates and deadlines.