USCAA All-Academic and All-American News and Information
The USCAA National Office is now accepting nominations for USCAA National All-Academic award winners for the Fall season. We will no longer be using paper forms for nominations. You can now nominate using the USCAA’s online awards platform, the same process used for Player of the Week and All-American nominations. You can use this link to log into the system.
USCAA National All-Academic Due Dates:
All other Fall Sports: Thursday, October 23rd
USCAA National All-Academic Nomination Guidelines
- All student-athletes, Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors at 4 year institutions and sophomores at 2 year institutions, shall be eligible for Academic All-American awards.
- Overall grade point averages must be 3.5 (on a 4 point system) or better.
- GPA’s must be documented by way of an unofficial school transcript
Soccer and Volleyball All-American Nominations
The volleyball All-American nomination window opens Oct. 13 and closes Oct. 15. The voting window begins on Oct. 16 and closes Oct. 20.
The soccer All-American nomination window opens Oct. 13 and closes Oct. 19. The voting window begins on Oct. 20 and closes Oct. 24.
The USCAA will be utilizing PrestoSports' online awards platform for nominating and voting for USCAA All-Americans nominations.
Coaches can log into the system immediately to nominate their student-athletes in men’s soccer, women’s soccer, and volleyball for All-American consideration. Below you will find instructions on how to access and use the system.
Login
To log into the system, click this link. Your login credentials are the same login institution’s use for reporting and Player of the Week nominations. If you are having issues with your user name or password contact kevin.wegman@theuscaa.com. If you are having any other problems with the system please contact PrestoSports at support@prestosports.com.
All-American Nomination Instructions
Once you login, you will be able to see all the available nomination categories. Click 'nominate' on the respective award you wish to submit (women’s soccer, men’s soccer, or volleyball). You will then choose your team from the drop down menu. If your team is not shown, please upload your roster into PrestoSports. From here you will see all of your players and their cumulative yearly stats. The stats shown are based off of your reporting submissions. Click the select button on the left hand side corresponding to the player you wish to nominate. Please nominate as follows.
Volleyball: Three nominations per team will be accepted.
Soccer: Four nominations per team will be accepted.
We will begin using this platform to accept nominations immediately. Please see the timeline on the left of your screen for when nominations close and voting begins.
All-American Voting Instructions
At the conclusion of the nomination process coaches will be able to log back into the system where they will have the option to vote on the nominations for their sport.
After selecting the option to vote on an award, user will see the name of each nominated player on the left hand side of the screen. To vote for a player users will need to drag that player’s name into the box on the right that correspond to the level in which they are choosing to vote that player for. The levels of voting are First-Team All-American, Second-Team All-American, Honorable Mention All-American (notated in the system as Third-Team All-American) and unranked for player’s voters do not feel is deserving of All-American at this time. Voters should vote using the following structure.
Soccer:
15 First-Team All-Americans
15 Second-Team All-Americans
15 Honorable Mention All-Americans
Volleyball:
10 First-Team All-America
10 Second-Team All-Americans
10 Honorable Mention All-Americans
When you are finished please press vote on the upper right hand corner to formally submit your selections. To see supporting information on a given nominee voters can click show details next to the nominee’s name. On the display that follows voters will see the player’s name, class standing, position, coaches’ rank, and their cumulative season statistics to consider in their votes.