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CoSIDA Members:
The nomination forms for the Capital One Academic All-America® football and women's volleyball programs opens at 11 a.m. (Eastern) today, October 8.
The nomination deadline is Tuesday, October 22, at 6 p.m. Eastern, but don't wait until the last minute!
All nominations for the Capital One Academic All-America® program must be done online through the
CoSIDA Web site. Nominations will be accepted only from current CoSIDA members, and members may nominate student-athletes only from their own institution.
To nominate student-athlete(s) for the Capital One 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.
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.
You will be asked to select your school's division, and the online system will automatically determine the correct Academic All-America® district.
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 has a minimum of 150 characters and a maximum of 500 characters. This data can be copied and pasted from other applications. YOU MUST have a character count between 150 and 500 in order for the ballot to go through; you will get an error message if you do not.
PLEASE Do NOT enter a PO Box as a university address. The CoSIDA awards system cannot ship to PO Boxes.
CoSIDA members have the option to save a nomination and submit it at a later time. Please note that there are
"Save" and "Submit" buttons at the bottom of the nomination form. Nomination forms which have been saved still must be submitted before the nomination deadline!
When you are ready to submit the nomination form, hit "submit" and the system will e-mail a receipt for the nomination. Make sure to save this confirmation e-mail, as it contains a unique ID number which will assist in troubleshooting if necessary.
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 calendar year at your institution.
Thank you for participating in the Capital One Academic All-America® program!