Capital One Academic All-District Baseball & Softball Nominations Open

Capital One Academic All-District Baseball & Softball Nominations Open

CoSIDA Members:

The nomination forms for the Capital One Academic All-America® baseball and softball programs are now available!

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. Student-athletes may be nominated at only one position.

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 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 left is for nominating in NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II, or NCAA Division III, and 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.

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 6 p.m. Eastern time on Tuesday, April 21, but don't wait until the last minute!

BASEBALL & SOFTBALL NOMINATION REMINDERS

• The nominee must be a starter or important reserve with legitimate athletic credentials.

• Nominees must have participated in at least 50 percent of the team’s games in the position listed on the nomination form. In baseball and softball, position players must have participated in at least 50 percent of the team’s games in the position listed on the nomination form.  Pitchers must have at least 10.0 innings pitched.

• Student-athletes may be nominated at only one position.  In the case of a student-athlete who plays more than one position (e.g., pitcher and infielder) and meets the minimum participation standards at both positions, the nominating SID must select one position.  Nominating one student-athlete multiple times at different positions is not permitted.

• 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.  Graduate students who are competing at a different institution than the one from which they earned their undergraduate degree are eligible even if they are in their first semester at the graduate institution.