Dates to Remember in Capital One Academic All-District Nominations, Voting and Team Announcements (April/May/June)
Link to NOMINATE/VOTE for Academic All-District teams
Nomination Assistance
Voting Assistance
- All current CoSIDA 2014-15 members may vote
- Nominations and voting close at 6 pm Eastern on the final days of the nomination and voting periods; updating of First Team Academic All-District bios must be done by Noon Eastern on the Monday's indicated below
Thank you for your participation in the Capital One Academic All-America® programs!
APRIL
• Mon., 27 ballots open for Academic All-District BASEBALL and SOFTBALL team voting
• Tue., 28 final day to NOMINATE for Academic All-District men's and women's AT-LARGE teams (6 p.m. Eastern deadline)
• Tue., 28 NOMINATIONS open for Academic All-District men's and women's TRACK & FIELD/CROSS COUNTRY teams
MAY
• Fri., 1 VOTING for Academic All-District AT-LARGE teams begins
• Tue., 5 final day to VOTE for Academic All-District BASEBALL and SOFTBALL teams
• Thr., 7 Academic All-District BASEBALL and SOFTBALL Teams announced; all First Team picks ONLY move onto the national Academic All-America ballot. SIDs who nominated First Team selections will receive an email with instructions to update the student-athlete bio/stats information for the national Academic All-America® ballot
• Mon., 11 NOON Eastern deadline to update First Team Academic All-District BASEBALL and SOFTBALL selections' bios
• Tue., 12 final day to VOTE for Academic All-District AT-LARGE teams
• Tue., 12 final day to NOMINATE for Academic All-District TRACK & FIELD/CROSS COUNTRY teams
• Thr., 14 Academic All-District AT-LARGE Teams announced; all First Team picks ONLY move onto the national Academic All-America ballot. SIDs who nominated First Team selections will receive an email with instructions to update the student-athlete bio/stats information for the national Academic All-America® ballot
• Fri., 15 VOTING for Academic All-District TRACK & FIELD/CROSS COUNTRY teams begins
• Mon., 18 NOON Eastern deadline to update First Team Academic All-District AT-LARGE selections' bios
• Thr., 21** final day to VOTE for Academic All-District TRACK & FIELD/CROSS COUNTRY teams
• Fri., 22 Academic All-District TRACK & FIELD/CROSS COUNTRY Teams announced; all First Team picks ONLY move onto the national Academic All-America ballot. SIDs who nominated First Team selections will receive an email with instructions to update the student-athlete bio/stats information for the national Academic All-America® ballot
JUNE
• Mon., 1 NOON Eastern deadline to update First Team Academic All-District TRACK & FIELD/CROSS COUNTRY selections' bios
**- final voting day for track & field/cross country moved off traditional Tuesday due to Memorial Day weekend
Capital One Academic All-America Spring Team Announcements
Note: The Capital One Academic All-America® NATIONAL BALLOTS are voted upon by the CoSIDA Board of Directors and the Academic All-America committee. There is no general membership voting for the national AAA teams.
• Capital One Academic All-America® SOFTBALL Teams announced
Tuesday, May 26 (College Division)
Wednesday, May 27 (NCAA Division III)
Thursday, May 28 (NCAA Division II)
Friday, May 29 (NCAA Division I
• Capital One Academic All-America® BASEBALL Teams announced
Monday, June 1 (College Division)
Tuesday, June 2 (NCAA Division III)
Wednesday, June 3 (NCAA Division II)
Thursday, June 4 (NCAA Division I)
• Capital One Academic All-America® AT-LARGE Teams announced (M & W)
Monday, June 8 (College Division)
Tuesday, June 9 (NCAA Division III)
Wednesday, June 10 (NCAA Division II)
Thursday, June 11 (NCAA Division I)
• Capital One Academic All-America® TRACK & FIELD/CROSS COUNTRY Teams announced (M & W)
Monday, June 22 (College Division)
Tuesday, June 23 (NCAA Division III)
Wednesday, June 24 (NCAA Division II)
Thursday, June 25 (NCAA Division I)
NOMINATION ASSISTANCE
All nomination are 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. 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.
See the special At-Large Team nomination criteria HERE. For the at-large category ONLY, there is a maximum of four male nominees and four female nominees per school, for a total of EIGHT possible nominees per institution. There is no limit on the number of nominees from a particular sport in the at-large category; the only limitations are in the number of candidates per school (FOUR MALE, FOUR FEMALE).
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 each final day of a sport nomination period.
• 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. 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.
VOTING ASSISTANCE
To vote in 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.
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.”
Want to see the ballot in a different format?
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!