Johns Hopkins University Athletics

Academic All-America Teams are selected by CoSIDA:The College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) selects Academic All-America teams in 12 programs: football, women's volleyball, men's soccer, women's soccer, men's basketball, women's basketball, baseball, softball, men's track & field/cross country, women's track & field/cross country, men's at-large and women's at-large. A first team, second team and third team are selected in the Division I, Division II, Division III and College (NAIA, CIS, 2-year) Divisions. Football consists of just first and second teams.

AT-LARGE PROGRAM:Eligible sports are women's bowling, women's crew, 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. In the at-large program, nominations are limited to four per school per gender. Thus, each institution may nominate a total of four men's at-large candidates and four women's at-large candidates. If an institution participates in both the Division III and the Division I divisions, it may nominate a total of four men and four women between the two divisions. There is no limit to the number of candidates that may be nominated for a particular sport.

NOMINATION CRITERIA:To be nominated, the student-athlete must be a starter or important reserve with at least a 3.30 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) for his/her career (note the GPA minimum was raised from 3.2 to 3.3 during the 2008-09 academic year). No athlete is eligible until he/she has reached sophomore athletic and academic standing at his/her current institution (thus, true freshmen, red-shirt freshmen and ineligible transfers are not eligible). In the cases of transfers, graduate students and junior college graduates, the athlete must have completed one full academic year at the nominating institution to be eligible.