College Sports Information Directors of America

CoSIDA Members: Beginning with the 2005-06 academic year, the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® process will be done online. Here is a rundown of the new nomination process. All nominations for the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® program must be done online through the CoSIDA Web site. Nominations will be accepted only from current members.

To nominate student-athlete(s) for the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® program, visit the Academic All-America® 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.

The online system automatically pulls in your institution, district (I-VIII) and division (University or College) from the CoSIDA database. Members nominating from multi-divisional institutions (those whose teams are Division I in some sports and not others) must manually override the division selection when applicable. (e.g., Scenic College's teams primarily compete in Division III, save for two teams that compete in Division I. The online system will pull in College Division for all of Scenic College's nominations, but the Scenic College SID must manually change the division to University Division for nominations from the sports which compete in Division I).

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 is limited to 500 characters. This data can be copied and pasted from other applications.

When finished with the nomination form, hit 'submit' and the system will e-mail a pdf of the nomination form.

Repeat as necessary.

The nomination deadline for men's and women's soccer is 5 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on Tuesday, Oct. 18, while the nomination deadline for football and volleyball is 5 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on Tuesday, Oct. 25.

REMINDERS: The minimum GPA for the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® program is 3.20. This MAY NOT be rounded up to 3.20 — thus, a student-athlete with a 3.199 GPA is not eligible. Nominees must have a cumulative GPA of 3.20 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 3.20.

The eligibility rule is very simple: an athlete must have completed one full academic year at the nominating institution. Thus, transfers, redshirts, JUCO matriculations, etc. must have completed one full academic year at the nominating institution to be eligible.

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