CoSIDA Members:
The ballots for the Capital One Academic All-District® baseball and softball teams are now ready to be voted upon, while the at-large sports teams nominations for Academic All-America® period is underway.
The baseball and softball team voting deadline is Tuesday, April 30 (6 p.m. Eastern); the nomination deadline for at-large team sports student-athletes also is Tuesday, April 30 (6 p.m. Eastern).
Please see the information below for both the voting and nomination periods.
Thank you for your participation in the Capital One Academic All-America® programs!
BEGIN NOMINATIONS HERE: www.cosida.com/aa
Vote for Capital One Academic All-America® Baseball and Softball Teams
To vote in 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.
Once you have logged in, there will be an option for “Vote on a District Ballot.” Click on this link to go to a screen listing the district ballots that are available for you to vote upon. Select the radio button for the ballot you wish to vote upon and click on “Proceed to Ballot.” You can print a copy of the ballot to peruse by clicking the link and printing the page that pops up. To reduce the chance of a time out error, first print copies of all the ballots, then log out (or close your browser window) and read through the printed copies, then log back in to vote.
To vote, click the radio buttons for the student-athletes for whom you wish to vote, then click “submit ballot.” If there are more ballots for you to vote upon, the system will prompt you to vote on those.
Every vote does count, so cast yours today! The voting deadline is 6 p.m., Eastern Daylight Time, on Tuesday, April 30.
Nominate for Capital One Academic All-America® At-Large Teams
All nominations for the Capital One Academic All-America® program must be done online through
www.cosida.com/aa. Nominations will be accepted only from current CoSIDA members, and members may nominate student-athletes only from their own institution.
Eligible at-large sports:
- Women's Bowling
- Women's Crew
- Men's and Women's Fencing
- Women's Field Hockey
- Men's and Women's Golf
- Men's and Women's Gymnastics
- Men's and Women's Ice Hockey
- Men's and Women's Lacrosse
- Men's and Women's Rifle
- Men's and Women's Skiing
- Men's and Women's Swimming
- Men's and Women's Tennis
- Men's Volleyball
- Men's and Women's Water Polo
- Men's Wrestling
In the At-Large program, nominations are limited to three per school per gender (a total of FOUR men's at-large candidates and FOUR women's at-large candidates). If an institution participates in both the college and the university divisions, it may nominate a total of three men and three women between the two divisions. There is no limit to the number of candidates that may be nominated for a particular sport within the at-large program.
To nominate student-athlete(s) for the Capital One Academic All-America® program, visit the Capital One 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.
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.
The nomination deadline is Tuesday, April 30, at 6 p.m. Eastern time, but don't wait until the last minute!
Reminders:
• 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. Each nomination bio must be a minimum of 150 characters; the maximum amount of characters is 500. YOUR NOMINATION WILL NOT GO THROUGH IF YOU DO NOT MEET OR IF YOU SURPASS THESE THRESHOLD and you will get an error message.
• Do NOT enter a PO Box as a university address. The CoSIDA awards system cannot ship to PO Boxes.
• 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.