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CoSIDA E-Digest April 2015 • 1 CoSIDA E-Digest April 2015 • 2 CoSIDA E-Digest April 2015 • 3 CoSIDA E-Digest April 2015 • 4 CoSIDA E-Digest APRIL 2015 OUR MEMBERS . 8 2015 Capital One Academic All-America® Hall of Fame Class Announced 12 Andre Agassi to Receive 2015 Dick Enberg Award 16 Apply Now for CoSIDA Internship Grants and Scholarships CORPORATE PARTNERS • ASAP Sports ..............................................................43 18 CoSIDA Membership Renewal Begins July 1 • Capital One ..................................................................2 19 Nominations Sought for CoSIDA Board Positions • CBS Sports Network/Stat Crew................................45 20 Awareness for New Uniforms and • College Football Playoff ...........................................45 the Problem of Unreadable Numbers • CoSIDA’s “Service Providers” .................................15 32 5 Questions With Stew Salowitz of Illinois Wesleyan • ESPN ..........................................................................12 40 Maximizing Your Academic All-America® Nominations • Heisman Trophy ........................................................11 53 Capital One Academic All-America® Schedule • Learfield Sports ...........................................................4 49 2014-15 CoSIDA Board of Directors and Staff • NCAA ............................................................................3 THE 2015 CONVENTION . • NewTek .........................................................................4 • NBA .............................................................................51 24 2015 Convention Registration Is Open • NFL .............................................................................11 26 ‘CoSIDA Tonight” Varierty Show Live on June 14 • PhotoShelter ..............................................................27 28 Samaritan’s Feet Founder Manny Ohonme • Proforma Collegiate Solutions ...................................4 Announced as 2015 Convention Keynote Speaker • Rose Bowl Game ......................................................46 30 NCAA’s Oliver Luck is 2015 Convention • SIDEARM Sports .......................................................46 Closing Keynote Speaker • Sports Systems .........................................................46 32 CoSIDA Special Award Winners: Links to Individual Feature Stories • Turner Sports .............................................................11 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT • USA Volleyball ...........................................................54 • XOS Digital .................................................................43 44 How to Gesture During Media Interviews 48 Reputation Management: A “How To” in Defusing an Issue or Crisis CoSIDA E-Digest April 2015 • 5 CAPITAL ONE ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA® HALL OF FAME 2015 CAPITAL ONE ® ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA HALL OF FAME CLASS ANNOUNCED Shane Battier Dr. Grant Jones Lee Hamilton Angela Ruggiero Danny Wuerffel Duke University Denison University DePauw University Harvard University University of Florida Duke University men’s basketball star and former This marks the fifth year that Capital One is the title NBA standout Shane Battier joins Florida’s Heisman sponsor of both the Academic All-America® program and Trophy winning quarterback Danny Wuerffel, United States the Academic All-America® Hall of Fame. Olympic women’s hockey medalist Angela Ruggiero of The biographical information on this year’s Academic Harvard, Denison football hall of famer and Ohio State All-America® Hall of Fame induction class is listed below: team physician Dr. Grant Jones and longtime United States Congressman and DePauw men’s basketball SHANE BATTIER – BASKETBALL standout Rep. Lee Hamilton (D-Indiana) as this year’s 2015 DUKE UNIVERSITY inductees into the Capital One Academic All-America® Hall A champion at every level at which he has of Fame, as selected by CoSIDA. competed, Shane Battier ranks among the greats The five new inductees join 132 members at Duke University both on and off the court. of the Capital One Academic All-America® As a senior in 2000-01, Battier led the Blue Hall of Fame, which was created in 1988. Devils to their third national championship They will be inducted into the Academic under the winningest Division I men’s All-America® Hall of Fame at CoSIDA’s coach in history, 2013 Dick Enberg annual convention in Orlando, Fla. on Award recipient and Naismith Hall of Monday, June 15th at the organization’s Famer Mike Krzyzewski. He swept sixth annual Capital One Hall of Fame all the major national player of the Ceremony at the World Center Marriott. year honors along the way, including The CoSIDA Convention is part of the Naismith Award and the John R. the annual National Association of Wooden Award, named for the great Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) UCLA coach and fellow Academic All- and Affiliates Convention for a third straight America Hall of Famer. year. A two-time first team GTE Academic The June 15th Capital One induction All-America® and the Academic All-America® of ceremony will feature ESPN’s Rece Davis as the Year in 2001, Battier led Duke to an 82-72 victory emcee and legendary broadcaster Dick Enberg, the over Arizona in the 2001 NCAA national championship ambassador of the Academic All-America program, as game played in Minneapolis. That triumph capped a 35-win special guest. At that time, the 2015 Dick Enberg Award season and marked the Blue Devils’ second appearance recipient, Andre Agassi, also will be recognized. in the title game during his career. Battier was a three- time National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) CoSIDA CoSIDA E-Digest E-Digest AprilApril 20152015 • • 6 6 CAPITAL ONE ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA® HALL OF FAME Defensive Player of the Year, and he combined with Wuerffel earned a degree in public relations from teammate Jason Williams as one of only two duos in Blue Florida and was inducted into the school’s Athletic Hall Devil history to score over 700 points in a season. of Fame in 2006. An active member of his New Orleans Battier was selected as the sixth overall pick in the community, Wuerffel serves as director of Desire Street 2001 National Basketball Association draft by the Memphis Ministries, whose goal is to transform impoverished Grizzlies. He spent the first five years of his career in neighborhoods into flourishing, healthy communities across Memphis before moving to the Houston Rockets in 2006. the nation. Undaunted after Hurricane Katrina destroyed Battier returned to the Grizzlies in 2011 before heading his home and Desire Street’s facilities, Danny drew national to Miami later that year to help the Heat win back-to-back attention to his efforts to rebuild the Ministries and to assist NBA titles in 2012 and 2013. in rebuilding the city of New Orleans and the region as well. A native of Birmingham, Mich. and a former Michigan “Mr. Basketball” out of Detroit Country Day School, Battier ANGELA RUGGIERO – HOCKEY earned a degree in religion from Duke in 2001. HARVARD UNIVERSITY He embarked on a career as a commentator and studio Angela Ruggiero shined brightly on both the national host at ESPN after his retirement from the Heat following and international stages as a standout defenseman for the 2014 NBA Finals. Harvard University and as a four-time Olympic medalist for Team USA. Ruggiero helped lead the USA to the inaugural DANNY WUERFFEL – FOOTBALL Olympic gold medal in 1998 and was a member of three UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA other medal-winning squads that captured silver in 2002 Danny Wuerffel reached the summit of success both and 2010 as well as bronze in 2006. on the field and in the classroom during one of the most Ruggiero earned first team Verizon Academic All- highly decorated collegiate football careers in history at America® at-large accolades during her senior season for the University of Florida. Wuerffel guided the Gators to the the Crimson, the same year that she received the Patty 1996 national championship with a 52-20 victory over rival Kazmaier Memorial Trophy as the nation’s top female Florida State in the Sugar Bowl just weeks after joining hockey player. A three-time team MVP for Harvard, she his coach, Steve Spurrier, as the school’s recipient of the was a four-time All-America selection and was named as Heisman Trophy. a recipient of the NCAA’s distinguished Top VIII Award for A two-time first team GTE Academic All-America® her success in competition, in the classroom and in the during his junior and senior campaigns of 1995 and 1996, community. Wuerffel guided Florida to four straight Southeastern Ruggiero received international recognition in 2003 Conference crowns and back-to-back appearances in after being named as the United States Olympic Committee the national championship game. A two-time All-America Player of the Year and voted as the best female player honoree, Wuerffel also was a two-time recipient of the in the world by The Hockey News. Angela garnered top Davey O’Brien Award and received both the Sammy Baugh defenseman honors at both the 2002 (Salt Lake City) and Trophy and the Johnny Unitas Golden Award Award. 2006 (Turin, Italy) Olympic Games and was also named as Wuerffel threw for nearly 11,000 career yards. This included the top defenseman on four occasions (2001, 2004, 2005 3,625 yards and 39 touchdowns as a senior during a and 2008) at the World Championships. She was the first season which featured a 462-yard effort against Arkansas woman non-goalie to play professional men’s hockey in during the Gators’ run to the