Important links/PDFs for the Capital One Academic All-America® program
• Capital One Academic All-America
® general information
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DISTRICT MAPS FOR DIVISION I, II, III, NAIA and Canadian institutions -
PLEASE REVIEW CAREFULLY and choose your appropriate district based on your district
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2012-13 Academic All-America® Committee (lists of national and district coordinators with contact information)
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2012-13 master schedule (PDF- dates of nominations/voting/team announcements)
CoSIDA Members:
The nomination forms for the Capital One Academic All-America® baseball and softball programs are now available!
The
nomination deadline is Tuesday, April 16, at 6 p.m. Eastern time, 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.
At that page, 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.
NOTE: 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. If you get an error message when trying to submit your nomination, please check to make sure that this data field has been filled in correctly with the 150-500 character range; this is where the majority of errors are caught.
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!
NOTE: Do NOT enter a PO Box as a university address. The CoSIDA awards system cannot ship to PO Boxes and your nomination will not go through with a PO box number.
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.
Again, the baseball and softball
nomination deadline is Tuesday, April 16, at 6 p.m. Eastern time, but don't wait until the last minute!
CAPITAL ONE ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA® BASEBALL & SOFTBALL NOMINATION REMINDERS:
• Nominations for the Academic All-America® program will be accepted only from current dues-paying CoSIDA members. CoSIDA members may nominate student-athletes only from their own institution.
• 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.
• Nominees must have participated in at least 50 percent of the team’s games (in the position listed on the nomination form, IF the positions are listed). All nomination criteria must be met for a nomination to be valid.
In baseball and softball, pitchers must have at least 10.0 innings pitched. Athletes who have not participated in at least 50 percent of their team’s contests are not eligible.
• No student-athlete is eligible until he/she has completed one full calendar year at his/her current institution and has reached sophomore athletic eligibility.
• In the cases of transfers, graduate students and two-year college graduates, the student-athlete must have completed one full calendar year at the nominating institution to be eligible.
• Nominees in graduate school must have a cumulative GPA of 3.30 or better both as an undergrad and in grad school.
• All nomination deadlines are strictly followed.
• With the exception of the at-large program, there are no limits in the number of athletes an institution may nominate. However, please make sure the student-athlete is either a starter or an important reserve.