· CoSIDA Secretary Jeff Hodges has reported  that our final membership total for the 2010-11 year was a record 2,862 (299 more than previous record of 2,563 in 2008-09). Hodges indicated that CoSIDA increased  

membership numbers in 42 states.   

· During the month of July the Board's leadership finalized several things as it relates to the upcoming year.  All members of the CoSIDA Board of Directors had their duties and responsibilities finalized for the 2011-12 academic year.  You can review that assignment document HERE.

· The CoSIDA Board's initiatives for the 2011-12 year have been established.  You can review those HERE.

· Executive Director John Humenik and President Tom DiCamillo continued to work with Debbie Copp (Oklahoma), Chair of the Committee on Committees, to finalize the committee listings for the upcoming  year.  Humenik and DiCamillo have asked all the Committee Chairs to provide a specific set of goals/ objectives for the upcoming year and get those to them by early August.  When received, they will be placed on our website for your review.

· John Humenik and Director of External Affairs Barb Kowal spent  two days in Indianapolis (July 18-19) visiting with Will Roleson, CoSIDA's new Director of Internal Operations/Treasurer in Training, to help him transition into his new role. The trio planned out various CoSIDA related projects  and duties for the next several months.  

· Here is a complete list of various CoSIDA leadership Boards for the upcoming year.  Several of the divisional leadership Boards are still being finalized and will be announced in August.

2011-12  CoSIDA Board of Directors

Tom DiCamillo (Pacific West Conference) will serve as President for the upcoming year with Joe Hornstein (UCF) as 1st Vice President, Shelly Poe (Ohio State) as 2nd Vice President and Eric McDowell (Union-NY) as 3rd VP.  

Past Presidents who will serve as officers on the 2011-12 Board are First Past President Larry Dougherty (Temple), Second Past President Justin Doherty (Wisconsin) and Third Past President Nick Joos (Baylor). Remaining officers on the Board are Treasurer Dave Wohlhueter (Cornell- retired) and Secretary Jeff Hodges (North Alabama). Returning as At-Large Representatives are Ed Hill (Howard), Kent Brown (Illinois), Joe Browning (UNC- Wilmington) and John Paquette (Big East Conference). College Division Representatives returning to the Board are Chris Day (Adams State), Dave Wrath (Augustana-IL) and Rob Knox (Kutztown). New College Division Representatives appointed to the Board are Cindy Fotti (Columbia College) from the Central Region, Mark Fleming (Moravian College) from the Northeast Region and Dave Walters (Guilford College) from the Southeast Region. John Humenik, CoSIDA's Executive Director, Barb Kowal, CoSIDA Director of External Affairs, and Will Roleson, Director of Internal Operations/Treasurer in Training, serve on the CoSIDA Board in ex-officio capacities.

2011-12 Management Advisory Committees  

In June of 2008 the CoSIDA Board of Directors established a new management tier (College Division and University Division Management Advisory Committees -  better known as CDMAC and UDMAC)  which would serve as "umbrella" management groups for the College Division (NCAA DII, NCAA DIII and NAIA and Canadian Interuniversity Sport) and the University Division (all D1-   FBS, FCS and 1-AAA) as it relates to appropriate joint based matters for those respective  groups (University and College Divisions) while each of the specific divisional leadership groups  (DII-SIDA, DIII- SIDA, NAIA-SIDA, FBS MAC, FCS MAC and I-AAA MAC)  manage division-specific issues.   

CD and UDMAC groups are responsible for providing specific appropriate programming for the upcoming convention, putting together appropriate continuing education sessions during the year, making sure appropriate members are nominated for awards and leadership roles as well as managing any joint-based issues and concerns that might surface within the college or university divisions during the course of the year. 

2011-12 College Division Management Advisory Committee 

Chair - Blake Timm (Pacific, Ore.)
Greg Goings (Bowie State) - President of NCAA DII-SIDA
Larry Happel (Central, Iowa) - President of NCAA DIII-SIDA
Jay Stancil (Union, Ky.) - President of NAIA-SIDA
Ben Matchett (Calgary) - President of CIS (Canadian Interuniversity Sport) SID Committee
Chris Day (Adams State) - CoSIDA Board
Tom DiCamillo (Pacific West Conference) - CoSIDA President
Mark Fleming (Moravian) - CoSIDA Board
Cindy Fotti (Columbia, Mo.) - CoSIDA Board
Dennis Jezek (Barry)
Ann King (Sage Colleges)
Rob Knox (Kutztown) - CoSIDA Board
Sarah Meier (Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference)
Jack Neumann (Calgary, Ret.)
Dave Parsons (Mount Vernon Nazarene)
Eric Smith (Taylor)
Dave Walters (Guilford) - CoSIDA Board
Dave Wrath (Augustana-IL) - CoSIDA Board

2011-12 CoSIDA University Division Management Advisory Executive Committee

Chair - Charles Bloom (Southeastern Conference)
Football Championship Subdivision Chair - Scottie Rodgers (Ivy League)
Football Championship Subdivision Vice-Chair - Trevor Parks (Youngstown State)
NCAA Division I-AAA Chair - Tom Eiser (Xavier)
NCAA Division I-AAA Vice-Chair - Bob Noss (Wright State)
Football Bowl Subdivision Chair - TBA
Football Bowl Subdivision Vice-Chair - TBA
Ex-Officio - John Humenik, CoSIDA Executive Director 

 · Barb Kowal is in the process of soliciting ideas for making our website better for the membership.  If you have any ideas in this regard, please send them to Barb (barbkowal@cosida.com) by August 10, 2011.

 ·  The 2011-12 year continuing education program kicked off on July 12th with Dr. Bill Smith doing a session on "Building and Using Mobile Apps in College Athletics."  Tony Perdo of Mobile Roadie and Tim Lee of Revolution Tech joined Smith for the presentation.  Nearly 200 CoSIDA members  listened to the conference.  If you missed this session but would like to hear what was discussed/presented, you can access this archived/on-demand session FREE via TRZ/Teamline, CoSIDA's conference call provider and ASAP Sports, CoSIDA's instant transcript provider here:     

 · 3rd VP Eric McDowell  (Union- NY) will coordinate our continuing education inititiatives this year.  If you have ideas or want to coordinate a specific session, please contact him at mcdowele@union.edu.

· John Humenik and Barb Kowal continue to work with NewTek, CoSIDA's official continuing education video archive  provider, to finalize several  taped sessions from the Marco Island Convention to use as online presentations this fall.  These convention sessions will be provided to our membership from late September-December as the prominent piece of our fall/early winter continuing education initiatives for the 2011-12 year. The CoSIDA Board would like to thank NewTek for its support of this continuing education initiative.

· This past February, Barb Kowal introduced, with the help of the Membership Services Committee (Chaired by Blake Timm of Pacific) and the New Media Committee (Chaired by Chris Syme) the newly established CoSIDA Online Reference and Research Library. This is an online continuing education/ professional development membership reference tool which we feel will be helpful to our membership in a variety of different ways moving forward. We encourage you to visit and check it out here: http://cosida.com/resourcelibrary/.   If you have any ideas how to make this reference site better, please contact Kowal at barbkowal@cosida.com. 

Joint Divisional Based   

· CoSIDA's DII and DIII SIDA Boards, along with NCAA Statistics, are completing a proposal for a  new joint score/stat reporting process.  A joint proposal from DII-SIDA and the NCAA was put in front of the entire DII SIDA Board on June 16th and it was unanimously approved. Jim Wright of the NCAA then had a conference call with DIII-SIDA leadership on June 17th to show them what the DII leadership/NCAA had developed. These proposals were then discussed with respective membership groups at the CoSIDA Convention.

· REMEMBER- Always, refer to our Academic All-America® program and its respective Academic All-District  teams, Academic All-America® teams and Academic All-America® Hall of Fame, with our sponsor Capital One placed prior to all "Academic All-America" mention. 

· Academic All-America Co-Chair Mark Beckenbach (Ohio Wesleyan) visited with the staff of SIDEARM Sports in Syracuse in mid-July to work to finalize various aspects of the AAA online nomination process for the upcoming year which will see a full doubling of the AAA program from two national programs (University and College Division) to four (NCAA DI, NCAA DII, NCAA DIII, and College Division (NAIA, Canada and Two-Year institutions).

· The master schedule for the nomination deadlines/ team announcements for the 2011-12 Capital One Academic All-America® program will be available by mid-August. Information on the program can be accessed here: http://cosida.com/Awards/allamerica.aspx .

· The CoSIDA Board and Academic All-America® Committee leadership remind CoSIDA members that CoSIDA's "Academic All-America®" mark is federally registered. As such, CoSIDA members must help the Board and AAA Committee monitor the wrongful use of this registered trademark. If you see any other organizations, including coaching associations, using this registered trademark, immediately contact CoSIDA Executive Director John Humenik (jhumenik@bellsouth.net) and AAA Committee member Dick Lipe (Bentley University) at rlipe@bentley.edu. We will have our legal counsel, Collegiate Images, follow up with a letter regarding infringement of our federally registered mark and they will be asked to "cease and desist" from future use of that mark.  

· Many times during the year we find that our own membership is using "Academic All-America®" in releases that they prepare for student-athletes receiving academic achievement awards from other organizations - when in fact those organizations refer to their awards as "All-Academic," "Scholar-Athlete," "Academic All-Star," etc.  We remind  CoSIDA members be cognizant of only using "Academic All-America®" in relation to CoSIDA's program. There are NO exceptions and you should make sure your administrative staff and coaches understand that they do not have the right to take another award that is being presented for combined academic/athletic excellence by coach's associations/organizations and change it to "Academic All-America®" instead of its appropriate title as determined by that awarding organization.   

Strategic Branding/Marketing & Communications Based

· At the Marco Island Convention the Strategic Branding Committee, chaired by then-1st VP Tom DiCamillo,  made a recommendation to the Board that CoSIDA's organizational title be reviewed and analyzed as part of an ongoing strategic branding  review process.  First VP Joe Hornstein (UCF) was then appointed by President-elect Tom DiCamillo to chair the Strategic Branding Committee for the 2011-12 year.  

· During the month of July, 22 CoSIDA-based stories appeared on NACDA's Daily Review email blast.  There were 21 Daily Review emails sent during the month. Due to this effort, that primarily came about due to CoSIDA's decision in Dec. of 2008 to become an affiliated partner within the NACDA  organizational umbrella, several thousands of university and athletics administrators are being exposed to professional and organizational news that primarily only appeared on the CoSIDA website in the past and was thus only viewed by our membership.
 
· Also in July, six CoSIDA-based features/stories were circulated a total of 11 times on the NCAA Daily News Direct email blast.  

· During the month of July, 28 articles were posted on our organizational website (CoSIDA.com). In addition, the CoSIDA Twitter page (www.twitter.com/CoSIDAnews) had 236 tweets/postings in July all of them informative nature with breaking news and timely topics for athletic communication professionals.

· Additionally on Twitter, an informative and highly-popular hashtag - #cosidaconv - was started prior to the June Convention, and continued through the Convention. Information and links were shared by CoSIDA attendees and CoSIDA leaders in the period leading up to - and through - the Convention.  

Eclaro Sports   

·John Humenik worked with Jay Williams, VP of Eclaro Sports, CoSIDA's official professional development partner,  and CoSIDA's various divisional leadership Presidents/Chairs to have each of them send a letter to their respective membership groups regarding the confidential Eclaro resume bank that is being developed for our membership.  This resume bank , which now has more than 300 personal resumes from CoSIDA members,  can then be made available - in a confidential manner- to schools/AD's when a communications-based opening occurs.