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December 30, 2011
To: CoSIDA Membership
Fr: Tom Di Camillo, 2011-12 CoSIDA President; John Humenik, Executive Director; Barb Kowal, Director of External Affairs; and Will Roleson, Director of Internal Operations
Re: Recap of CoSIDA Board of Directors and divisional leadership updates and initiatives for the month of December
We hope you are having a wonderful holiday season, and have had the opportunity to spend some quality family time. We respectively ask that you take some time to review this monthly membership newsletter from CoSIDA's leadership so that you are aware of important organizational matters. We wish you a Happy New Year!
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CoSIDA Special Awards deadline approaching: Jan. 31, 2012 - Please nominate deserving candidates!
· Special Awards Chair Tam Flarup (Wisconsin) reminds the membership that nominations for CoSIDA's Special Awards program are open year-round. Please review the various awards HERE and nominate deserving CoSIDA members, media members and CoSIDA advocates for these distinguished honors. The deadline for the 2012 awards, which will be presented at the June St. Louis CoSIDA Convention, is Jan. 31, 2012. |
Continuing Education
· Third Vice President Eric McDowell (Union- N.Y.) coordinates our continuing education initiatives this year. If you have ideas or want to coordinate a session, please contact him at mcdowele@union.edu. · NewTek, CoSIDA's official continuing education video archive provider, is making available this fall/early winter several taped sessions from the Marco Island CoSIDA Convention from this past June. Access the on-demand archive videos schedule HERE and see an article on the on-demand series HERE. |
Representing the Organization
· Throughout December, CoSIDA leaders participated in the following events and held numerous meetings, with more meetings and events scheduled for January. CHECK HERE for the list of December and January meetings and initiatives undertaken and those scheduled.
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National Organization Initiatives
· READ HERE about the December initiatives CoSIDA worked on with national organizations NACDA, NCAA and the North America Society of Sports Management.
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Division-Specific News and Initiatives
· Actions taken at the divisional levels in December - and future work scheduled for January - include work with NCAA Division I, II, III and two-year college/ university representatives. Read details HERE.
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CoSIDA membership for 2011-12
· Not a member and want to join or renew for 2011-12? See our "CoSIDA Membership Benefits/Purchase a Membership" webpage HERE. You can still pay for a 2011-12 membership, but will also pay a late fee of $30.00 (exceptions DO apply to this late fee). Check information at the link. Questions? Please contact Will Roleson, CoSIDA Director of Internal Operations, at willroleson@cosida.com. |
CoSIDA Directory
· Secretary Jeff Hodges (North Alabama) and Director of Internal Operations Will Roleson have completed our annual directory update process and the PDF version and online versions are available on the CoSIDA web site. We encourage each school to alert their respective media representatives to the 2011-12 online E-Directory and distribute it to their media representatives. · The PDF version of the CoSIDA Directory is based on information provided by individual institutions/ organizations/members as of October 1, 2011. If there are inaccuracies in that edition, it is due to those organizations not following up with repeated requests by CoSIDA's staff to update their directory information. Please log onto CoSIDA.com HERE to access and update your information if needed and/or to request custodial status of your organization's account. Please direct questions to Will Roleson at willroleson@cosida.com. |
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Academic All-America® Program
· The much-anticipated expansion of the Capital One Academic All-America® program,
which moved from a two-division selection process (University and College Division) to a four-division selection process this year (with NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III and College Division [NAIA, Canada and Two-Year] categories) experienced a very successful fall season and is now gearing up for the winter/spring nominations. SIDs with football, men's/women's soccer, volleyball award winners will be shipped Academic All-District certificates and Academic All-America awards® in early January.
We remind everyone that you must be a 2011-12 member of CoSIDA to nominate your deserving student-athletes and vote in the program.
· 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" mentions. To access more information on the Capital One Academic All-America team (links to the master schedule, team announcements, nomination processes, etc.), please CLICK HERE. |
Committee Based Programs & Current CoSIDA Contests/Nominations
In this section, find out recent CoSIDA Committee news and see all current CoSIDA contests and award nomination programs. CoSIDA is accepting nominations for the 2012 Special Awards (deadline is Jan. 31, 2012) and for the CoSIDA Scholarships and Grant program (deadlines in April/May). There also are two ongoing contests - the annual Publications Contest (varying deadlines) and the Fred Stabley Sr. Writing Contest (deadline of Feb. 24, 2012).
Please see CoSIDA committee news and the nominations and contests HERE.
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Strategic Branding/Marketing & Communications
· The CoSIDA Board of Directors held a December 19th conference call with Dennis Cryder and JoJo Rinebold of Cryder/Rinebold where CoSIDA organizational strategic branding matters were discussed and Cryder and Rinebold offered suggestions for how they could help in this regard. Cryder and Rinebold both worked for the NCAA in the marketing/branding division for a number of years and were a part of April 2010 meetings in Indianapolis between CoSIDA leaders and NCAA staff members concerning CoSIDA's organizational strategic branding matters and issues. On the call, they offered their perspective on CoSIDA's progress with regard to its strategic branding initiatives during the past two years and gave their views on additional initiatives.
· You can read more on other CoSIDA strategic communications/marketing initiatives for December HERE.
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2012 St. Louis Convention
· The 2012 Convention takes place Saturday through Tuesday, June 23-26 at the Renaissance Grand Hotel in St. Louis. Details on hotel room reservations and Convention registration will be released over the next month, with registration and room reservations beginning on February 1, 2012. Please read more about Convention programming planning HERE.
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Miscellaneous
· Access the December news HERE on the following topics: CoSIDA's new collaboration with a collegiate athletic digital media managers/websites steering committee; CoSIDA's new Stat Crew task force and advisory group and its work in December; President Tom Di Camillo's outreach to past CoSIDA presidents; CoSIDA's Resource Library project; and the CoSIDA master calendar of events/deadlines for January through March.
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Sponsorship Matters
· While in New City on Dec. 5-6 to represent CoSIDA at the annual National Football Foundation Gala, Executive Director John Humenik held meetings with the following groups to renew/discuss sponsorship opportunities: CBS Sports Interactive/Stat Crew, Turner Sports, FOX Sports, USA Today Sports Media Group, NFL and ASAP Sports. · Click HERE to see the companies serving as CoSIDA "official providers" for 2011-12 and to access the 2011-12 sponsorship directory. |
Thank you for taking the time to read this monthly newsletter. Please do not hesitate to contact any member of the Board of Directors or CoSIDA staff members if you have any questions, concerns or suggestions for our organization.
Tom DiCamillo, Pacific West Conference
2011-12 CoSIDA President John Humenik Barb Kowal CoSIDA Director of External Affairs
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