Helpful hints & tips for nominating Capital One Academic All-America® student-athlete candidates
• 2014-15 Capital One Academic All-America
® master schedule
(nomination & voting dates and deadlines; team release dates)
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• Maximizing your Capital One Academic All-America
® nominations
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• 2014-15 Capital One Academic All-America Committee tips and advice memo
PDF
• 2014-15 CoSIDA Academic All-America Committee list
PDF
(divided by sport, districts, divisions - your initial contacts in the program)
IMPORTANT DATES FOR BASKETBALL NOMINATIONS & VOTING
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Tue., Jan. 13 - Nominations open for men's and women's basketball nominations
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Tue., Jan. 20 - Nominations close for men's and women's basketball nominations
at 6 pm Eastern
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Tue., Jan. 20 - Voting by CoSIDA members for Academic All-District Teams begin
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Tue., Feb. 3 - Voting by CoSIDA members for Academic All-District Teams ends
at 6 pm Eastern
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Thr., Feb. 5 - Capital One Academic All-District Basketball Teams announced
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Mon., Feb. 9 - CoSIDA members with First Team All-District selections must update bio information for national Academic All-America purposes by
12 noon Eastern deadline
• Tue. Feb 10-17 Academic All-America® team voting conducted by AAA committee, CoSIDA Board of Directors ONLY (note: general CoSIDA members vote for Academic All-District Teams, not the national teams)
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Mon., Feb. 23 - Capital One Academic All-America® College Division Basketball Teams announced
• Tue., Feb. 24 - Capital One Academic All-America® Division III Basketball Teams announced
• Wed, Feb. 25 - Capital One Academic All-America® Division II Basketball Teams announced
• Thr., Feb. 26 - Capital One Academic All-America® Division I Basketball Teams announced
CoSIDA Members:
The nomination forms for the Capital One Academic All-America® men's and women's basketballl programs are now available!
The nomination period is open for ONE WEEK - from Tuesday, Jan. 13 through 6 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday, Jan. 20.
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 2014-15 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://forms.cosida.com/aa/login.aspx and log in with your CoSIDA user name and password.
If you are not currently a CoSIDA member, visit
http://www.cosida.com/sports/2014/1/28/GEN_0128141637.aspx for information on purchasing a membership.
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 one of two buttons (the one on the left is for nominating in NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II, or NCAA Division III, and the one on the right is for NAIA, CIS, 2-year, and other affiliations.
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.
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.
The nomination deadline is Tuesday, Jan. 20, at 6 p.m. Eastern time, but don't wait until the last minute!
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.
• Nominees must have participated in at least 50 percent of the team’s games (in the position listed on the nomination form).
• Remember to select in the "Position" field. Do not leave this field blank or else you will get an error message and the nomination will not go through.
• Please do not rush the process. Each time you enter text into a field, or select a drop down option, please allow some time for the system to update and collect that information. If you try and rush through, this will create error messages.
QUESTIONS?
Please refer to the PDFs listed above the memo. Contact the appropriate Academic All-America Committee member (see list above) who is coordinating the sport in question in your district and division.
You can submit your questions online for assistance via our technical support link:
http://forms.cosida.com/aa/problem.aspx