Tuscaloosa News Preseason Girls Soccer Player of the Year: How Voting Works & How to Win

A single February honor, not a season-long series

The Tuscaloosa News runs one girls soccer honor each year, not a running series: preseason player of the year, decided before the spring season itself begins. Both confirmed editions, 2025 and 2026, opened in February and ran on Crowdsignal at poll.fm/16592116, the newspaper's own choice of polling platform rather than a site it built.

Because this is a single yearly honor rather than a multi-category award, there's no separate category list to publish here; the entire poll is the one preseason title, and no individual nominee is named below.

Two Februaries, and a poll that already reads closed

Both confirmed editions of this honor, 2025 and 2026, opened in February, going by poll.fm's own numbering for The Tuscaloosa News' series of ballots. That two-year pattern points to a preseason fixture timed to come before Alabama's spring high school soccer season rather than a one-off posting.

As shown on the current page, the 2026 ballot already reads closed, though no exact open or close date is printed beyond the February window itself. The Tuscaloosa News hasn't published a per-voter limit, an eligibility rule, or a schedule for when a 2027 edition might open.

Because this is a single preseason honor rather than a season-long series of weekly polls, there's exactly one ballot to watch each year rather than a running set of weekly match-ups the way some Alabama prep-sports polls work.

Voting on a Crowdsignal ballot, without naming who's on it

The Tuscaloosa News' poll runs on poll.fm, Crowdsignal's own polling platform, at poll.fm/16592116 for the 2026 edition. A supporter opens that link and selects a nominee directly on the Crowdsignal page; because this honor centers on high school athletes, none of them is named here, and a supporter looking for who's actually on the ballot needs to open the live poll itself.

What Crowdsignal or The Tuscaloosa News allow beyond a single selection, repeat voting, an account requirement, a daily reset, isn't spelled out on the current page. A past edition showed as closed once its window ended, so the safest assumption is that the 2026 poll works the same way: open for a stretch in February, then closed once The Tuscaloosa News moves on.

Crowdsignal is the same polling platform behind a number of Alabama high school honors, including several run by other publishers; nothing about the mechanic itself is unique to girls soccer.

A Tuscaloosa-specific honor beside Alabama's other prep-sport polls

The Tuscaloosa News' preseason honor isn't part of the other six Alabama high school sport polls linked from this page; all six carry an "Alabama High School" name rather than a single newspaper's own, and none of them covers girls soccer.

A Tuscaloosa-area supporter following several of these polls is following separate ballots with separate publishers and separate schedules; a February preseason vote for girls soccer carries no connection to a week-by-week football or basketball poll running under Alabama's own statewide name.

Supporting a nominee without this page naming names

Because this honor centers on high school athletes, the safest way to back a nominee is the same way The Tuscaloosa News' poll itself works: open poll.fm/16592116 directly, find the name already printed there, and vote. Nothing about who's on the February ballot is repeated on this page. Crowdsignal and The Tuscaloosa News don't publish what counts as irregular activity on this specific poll, so the standard approach, real supporters who actually know the nominee voting repeatedly rather than through one automated burst, is the steadier one for a poll built around a small group of local athletes. Buying votes for a sports fan poll covers what outside help for a Crowdsignal-hosted honor like this one typically looks like, and is buying votes legal is worth reading first.