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Academic All-America
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Academic All-American teams are marketed as "All-American Team Presented by ESPN The Magazine as selected by CoSIDA.
DescriptionOutstanding Division I, II and III and NAIA scholar athlete teams in all NCAA championship sports
CountryUnited States
Presented byCoSIDA/ESPN The Magazine (2004–present)
CoSIDA/Verizon (2000–2004)
CoSIDA/GTE (1985–2000)
CoSIDA (1952–1985)
First awarded1952
Last awarded2010
Currently held by816 annually
Websitewww.cosida.com

Academic All-America (sometimes CoSIDA Academic All-America, ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America (2004–present), Verizon Academic All-America (2000–04) or GTE Academic All-America (1985–2000)) program is a student-athlete recognition program. It is now presented by ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America (formerly sponored by Verizon and GTE) and administered by College Sports Information Directors of America or CoSIDA. The program selects an honorary sports team composed of the most outstanding student athletes of a specific season for positions in various sports—who in turn are given the honorific "Academic All-American". Since 1952 CoSIDA has bestowed Academic All-American recognition on male and female athletes in Divisions I, II, and III of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) as well as NAIA athletes, covering all NCAA championship sports.[1] The phrases "Academic All-America" and "Academic All-American" are protected trademarks of CoSIDA. In each program, regional Academic All-District selections are made with the first-team All-District selections being eligible for Academic All-America team selections.

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Currrently, CoSIDA is responsible for the annual selection of 816 Academic All-Americans in men's soccer, football, basketball, baseball and track & field/cross country and women's soccer, volleyball, basketball, softball, and track & field/cross country as well as at-large teams for both men and women in Division I, II and III and NAIA in all NCAA championship sports.[2] Currently, the sports that CoSIDA recognizes as eligible for at-large Academic All-American recognition are Women's bowling, Women's rowing, 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, and Men's wrestling.[3]

CoSIDA has registered a trademark for the name, "Academic All-America" which it uses for its student-athlete recognition program. The ESPN the Magazine Academic All-America program administered by CoSIDA is not related to such programs administered or sponsored by coaches' organizations. As a result, cease and desist orders have been granted to protect the trademark at times. Various sports that have similar programs have had to use names such as All-Academic to recognize scholar athletes.[4]

Prior to the relationship with ESPN, the Academic All-American Award has had other named corporate sponsors such as Verizon and its corporate predecessor GTE who were sponsors from 1985 until the mid 2000s.[5] Until the 1999–2000 academic year the honorees were called GTE All-Americans, but during the 2000–01 academic year they became known as Verizon All-Americans when Verizon acquired GTE.[6][7] Verizon continued to be the named sponsor through the 2003–04 academic year when they did not renew their rights.[8] ESPN the Magazine has been the sponsor since the 2004–05 academic year.[9]

Process

Team selections are composed of both a University Division, made up of Division I participants, and a College Division, made up of Division II, Division III, NAIA, and 2-year colleges. First, second and third team selections are made for both divisions in most Academic All-America programs. However, the football programs only select a first and second team. The football University Division includes both Football Bowl Subdivision and Football Championship Subdivision.[3]

Nominations must be made on the CoSIDA website by a current dues-paying member with a CoSIDA-issued user name and password for the academic year at issue.[3] Formerly, nominations were made by pen and ink and then with typewritten nominations.[10] The CoSIDA members nominate student-athletes only from the academic institution that they are affiliated with. The nominees must be a starter or important reserve with at least a 3.30 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) at his/her current institution. Nominees must have participated in at least 50 percent of the team’s games at the position listed on the nomination form (where applicable). In baseball and softball, pitchers must have at least 10.0 innings pitched. Nominees are ineligible until the completion of one full calendar year at his/her current institution and attainment of sophomore athletic eligibility. Transfers, graduate students and two-year college graduates must have completed one full calendar year at the nominating institution to be eligible. Graduate school nominees must have a cumulative GPA of 3.30 or better both as an undergraduate and in graduate school. Except for at-large program, there are no limits in the number of athletes an institution may nominate. In the at-large program, nominations are limited to three per school per gender (a total of three men's at-large candidates and three women's at-large candidates). If an institution participates in both the college and the university divisions, it may nominate a total of three men and three women between the two divisions.[3]

In each program, All-District selections are elected by the CoSIDA membership with the resulting first-team All-District selections advancing to the national ballot for Academic All-America team selections. The national ballot is cast by members of the Academic All-America Committee and the CoSIDA Board of Directors.[3] Each program also recognizes a single athlete for both the University and College Divisions who are referred to as Academic All-America® of the Year. Recent winners of this recognition include Florida Gator Tim Tebow for the University Division of Football in both 2008 and 2009 and Kansas Jayhawk Cole Aldrich for the University Division of men's basketball in 2010.[11][12]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Florida's Tim Tebow and Morningside's Beau Kildow top ESPN the Magazine's Academic All-America® Football Team". College Sports Information Directors of America. 2009-11-24. Retrieved 2010-02-12.
  2. ^ "CoSIDA Membership Benefits". College Sports Information Directors of America. Retrieved 2010-02-12.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Academic All-America". College Sports Information Directors of America. Retrieved 2010-02-12.
  4. ^ Arenberg, John (2008-09-16). "Protecting the Trademark of ESPN the Magazine Academic All-America ® Program". College Sports Information Directors of America. Retrieved 2010-03-12.
  5. ^ "Gminski Among 25 Finalists for Academic Hall of Fame: Duke Great Was One of 10 Players to Have Jersey Retired". CBS Interactive. 2003-05-08. Retrieved 2010-04-26.
  6. ^ "Shane Battier Named Verizon Academic All-America of the Year: Battier became the fourth Duke player to be named Academic All-America two or more times". CBS Interactive. 2001-03-13. Retrieved 2010-04-25.
  7. ^ "UVa's Ducharme Selected To Academic All-District Team: Men's basketball center/forward is third on the team in blocked shots this season". CBS Interactive. 2000-02-24. Retrieved 2010-04-25.
  8. ^ "CoSIDA Names 25 Swimmers to All-American Teams". CollegeSwimming.com. 2004-06-17. Retrieved 2010-04-26.
  9. ^ "Chris Paul Is Named Academic All-American: First Deacon basketball player to earn Academic All-American since 1996". CBS Interactive. 2005-03-02. Retrieved 2010-04-26.
  10. ^ Seavey, Jim (2008-06-11). "Maximizing Your Academic All-America Nominations" (PDF). College Sports Information Directors of America. Retrieved 2010-03-13.
  11. ^ "Tebow, Kildow top Academic team". ESPN. 2009-11-24. Retrieved 2010-03-14.
  12. ^ "Aldrich tops Academic All-America team". ESPN. 2010-02-23. Retrieved 2010-03-14.
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