Capital One Academic All-District At-Large Team Nominations Open Through April 28

Capital One Academic All-District At-Large Team Nominations Open Through April 28

• See the list of sports and nomination criteria in the Academic All-America® at-large category


CoSIDA Members:

The nomination forms for the Capital One Academic All-America® men's and women's at-large 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.

To nominate student-athlete(s) for the Capital One Academic All-America® program, visit the Academic All-America® web page at http://forms.cosida.com/aa/login.aspx and log in with your CoSIDA user name and password. I
f 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 box addreses. You must put in a shipping/delivery address.

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 28, but don't wait until the last minute!

CRITERIA & TEAM LISTS FOR AT-LARGE TEAM NOMINATIONS

• In the at-large program, nominations are limited to four per gender per school. Thus, each institution may nominate a total of four men's at-large candidates and four women's at-large candidates. If an institution participates in multiple divisions, it may nominate a total of four men and four women between all divisions. There is no limit to the number of candidates that may be nominated in a particular sport.

• Sports that are included in the at-large program are:  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.

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

• The at-large programs are not selected by position, so please remember to include the nominee's position (when applicable) in the field for academic and athletic accomplishments.

• 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.

• Nominees must have participated in at least 50 percent of the team's games.