COLLEGE SPORTS COMMUNICATORS (formerly COSIDA) ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA TEAM ARCHIVE

The only Academic All-America team in the country, the College Sports Communicators (formerly College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA)) Academic All-America Team was founded by longtime Southern Methodist Sports Information Director Lester Jordan.

Today it honors the best and brightest student-athletes in the University (Division I, Division I-AA) and College (Division II, III, NAIA, Community College) Divisions based on their academic and athletic performance.

NOMINATION CRITERIA:   

• To be nominated, a student-athlete must be a starter or important reserve with at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) at his/her current institution. The cumulative grade-point average may NOT be rounded up to 3.50.
• Nominated athletes 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. In track and field / cross country, a student-athlete is not required to compete in all three sports in order to be nominated. To be eligible, nominees must participate in 50 percent of the competitions that an institution schedules in either cross country, indoor track and field, or outdoor track and field. If an institution schedules multiple competitions on the same weekend (e.g., distance runners at one location, sprinters at a second location, field event athletes at a third), then the entire weekend counts as one competition for 50 percent participation purposes. In other sports, student-athletes who have not participated in at least 50 percent of their team’s contests are not eligible.
• No student-athlete is eligible until he/she has completed one full calendar year at his/her current institution and been on a college roster in that sport for two years.
• In the cases of transfers, graduate students, and two-year college graduates, the student-athlete must have completed one full calendar year at the nominating institution to be eligible. EXCEPTION: 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. Graduate transfers are only eligible for nomination at their current institution, unless they transferred and chose not to compete in intercollegiate athletics at their graduate transfer institution.
• Nominees in graduate school must have a cumulative GPA of 3.50 or above both as an  undergrad and in grad school.