The Montgomery Advertiser Boys Athlete of the Week Presented by Vance Law Firm: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Montgomery Advertiser Boys Athlete of the Week is and who runs it

The Montgomery Advertiser Boys Athlete of the Week Presented by Vance Law Firm is a high school sports fan vote produced by the Montgomery Advertiser, the daily newspaper serving Montgomery, Alabama, and the communities around it. The program is sponsored by The Vance Law Firm Injury Lawyers, whose name appears in the ballot title each week. Voting is hosted by Crowdsignal at its poll.fm address, and the ballot attached to this page sits at poll.fm/16724093.

Each cycle the Advertiser's sports staff shortlists boys high school athletes from the Montgomery area on the strength of the previous week's performances, writes a short description of what each nominee did, and opens a public vote that decides who takes the weekly honor. Any reader who opens the ballot can pick a single nominee, and the winner is the athlete holding the highest tally when the poll closes.

The ballot sits inside the Advertiser's broader high school sports coverage at montgomeryadvertiser.com, and the sponsor's own athlete of the week page at vancelawfirm.com describes the same program in the same terms. That makes this a publisher-run award with a local business sponsor rather than a standalone fan contest, and it shapes how the vote works in practice: the nominee list, the window and the result all come from the newspaper's sports desk, week after week.

The dated record for the Montgomery Advertiser boys ballot

The program is a weekly series, and its confirmed edition years run from 2022 through 2026, five straight years of ballots. Within each year the Advertiser posts a new poll roughly every week of the high school sports calendar, so the edition count is best read as an edition per weekly ballot rather than an edition per calendar year.

For the current cycle, the Advertiser's announcement sets the window precisely: voting opens Sunday, Sept. 20, and runs through Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, until noon. That Sunday-to-Thursday-noon pattern is what the newspaper printed for this ballot. The poll.fm link attached to this page points at a specific ballot in the series, the March 2-6 poll, which now shows as closed; a newer ballot replaces it as the weeks go on. The Advertiser has not published the date of the next weekly ballot.

Other facts are simply absent from what the newspaper prints. The ballot page shows no category roster for the boys award and no rule on how frequently one supporter may cast; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The announcement story and the sponsor page likewise carry no eligibility text for nominees. What is published is the window, the nominee descriptions and the eventual result, and those three are enough for a supporter to act on during any given week of the season.

How a supporter votes in the Montgomery Advertiser boys poll today

Voting in the Montgomery Advertiser Boys Athlete of the Week happens on the poll.fm ballot that Crowdsignal hosts. A supporter opens the poll, reads the short write-up under each nominee describing that athlete's performances from the previous week, selects the button beside a single name, and presses the vote button to log the choice. The ballot then displays the running result. The ballot itself asks for no login, and the Advertiser's announcement story does not describe an account requirement, so the practical route is simply to open the poll and vote.

Timing matters more than anything else in this format. Because the current ballot closes at noon on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, after opening the preceding Sunday, a vote cast after the close does nothing for the nominee, and the page is marked closed once the deadline passes. Supporters who want to move the result need to arrive inside the window the newspaper prints each week, not after it.

Because a fresh ballot replaces the old poll weekly, a URL saved last month may point at a finished vote. The safer habit is to reach the current ballot through the Advertiser's high school sports coverage at montgomeryadvertiser.com, where each week's story links to the live poll, rather than trusting an old link to still be open.

How this ballot sits beside its Alabama high school neighbours

This ballot is among several Alabama high school sports fan votes covered on this site. Its closest siblings include the Alabama High School Baseball Player of the Week, the Alabama High School Football Player of the Week, the Alabama High School Boys Basketball Player of the Week, the Alabama High School Girls Basketball Player of the Week, and the season-long Alabama High School Football Player of the Year and Alabama High School Boys Basketball Player of the Year awards.

The difference is scope and rhythm. The Advertiser's ballot is a local, Montgomery-area, all-sport boys award that resets every week and carries a Montgomery law firm's name in its title. The football and basketball ballots are sport-specific and statewide in their framing, and the player of the year awards crown an entire season rather than a single week. A Montgomery athlete can therefore appear in this poll in a given week and in a sport-specific Alabama ballot in another, and support built for neither carries over automatically, since each runs on its own ballot with its own window.

For a nominating family, school or booster group, that means choosing the right stage before campaigning. A weekly honor rewards a single standout performance and is decided within days, while a player of the year award aggregates a whole season. Reading the sibling pages linked above makes clear which ballot a performance actually qualifies for before anyone starts rallying votes.

Strengthening support in the Montgomery Advertiser boys vote

Support in this program is a race against the Thursday noon close, so the moves that count are the ones landing early in the Sunday-to-Thursday window. Share the ballot link the day the Advertiser posts it, name the athlete and the week in the message so people know they are voting on the right poll, and ask the school's own channels, team parents and booster groups to pass it along before the deadline. The Advertiser publishes no stated policy on voting software or automation on its ballot page, and the ballot itself prints no per-person limit, so the honest reading is that ordinary fan participation is what this format is built around. For a fuller rundown of outreach that fits a public vote like this, see our votes guide at how to get more votes online, which covers timing, messaging and the rules questions that come up in newspaper-run polls.