The Record Preseason Girls Soccer Player of the Year Poll: How Voting Works & How to Win

What The Record's preseason girls soccer poll is

This program is a high school sports recognition ballot run by The Record, a California newspaper whose masthead sits on the program name itself. The organizer is registered as a newspaper, with a recordnet.com web presence, and the poll belongs to the publisher's broader habit of letting readers vote on local high school athletes. The vertical is sport, the format is an award decided by public vote, honoring a player of the year, and the season it targets is the girls soccer preseason, which is why the ballot carries a 2025-26 season label.

The ballot is a Crowdsignal page at poll.fm, the polling service behind a large share of newspaper athlete polls. The live address for the current ballot is poll.fm/16427649, titled as The Record's 2025-26 Preseason Girls Soccer Player of the Year Poll, marked closed. That closed status is itself a fact worth stating plainly: a supporter arriving today sees the finished result, not a live count, and the next live ballot will be a new poll.fm address published when the next preseason arrives.

The ballot's nominee list names high school players with their positions and schools, which is the standard shape for this kind of publisher poll. As the nominees are all high school students, this page keeps to publisher, sport, gender and season rather than naming any individual player. The table underneath gathers the program's fixed details.

The dated facts: which editions ran and when

Two years carry confirmed editions here, 2023 and 2025, and that pair is the reason the program counts as annual. It is also the full extent of the dated facts. No edition is confirmed for 2024, and none is confirmed for any year before 2023, so the honest description is a program with a confirmed 2023 edition, a confirmed 2025 edition, and a December window attached to both. The 2025-26 label on the current ballot ties that edition to the school year that began in 2025.

The window itself is December. The timing evidence for the confirmed editions reads as a December-to-December span, which fits a preseason poll: The Record publishes the ballot before the girls soccer season gets underway, voting runs inside the month, and the result is settled before league play decides anything on the field. No exact open date and no exact close date are attached to either confirmed edition in the program's own materials, and no nomination round is described anywhere.

The organizer leaves the fine print unpublished: the precise open and close dates for the window, the full standing rules, and any per-supporter limit on repeat voting; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. That gap is not unusual for a newspaper player poll, where the ballot page often carries only the nominee list and the vote control, but it does mean a supporter planning around the 2026 edition has nothing dated to plan against until The Record publishes the new ballot.

The current ballot's closed status is the one live fact on the page today. The 2025-26 poll ended with its December window, the result stands, and the next edition is a future event rather than a scheduled one.

How a supporter votes in the Record soccer poll

Voting works as a straightforward public ballot carried by Crowdsignal through poll.fm. A supporter reaches the poll.fm page for The Record's preseason girls soccer vote, reads through the nominees, picks a single player, and presses the vote control. Nothing in the program's materials describes an account, a login or a registration step, and the ballot presents itself as open to any reader who reaches it. That simplicity is the defining feature of the poll.fm format: the whole act of voting happens on a single page with a single click.

Because the 2025-26 edition is closed, a supporter following these steps today lands on a finished ballot rather than a live one. The closed page still lists the nominees and the outcome, so it documents where the preseason conversation landed, but the vote control no longer counts anything. When The Record publishes its next preseason poll, the new ballot will carry its own address and its own December window.

The repeat-voting question is the one a supporter cannot answer from the standing materials. No daily return rule, no one-vote-per-person statement and no eligibility text has been published for this program, so whether a supporter may come back the next day is a detail only the live ballot can settle. Newspaper polls on this platform vary on that point, and guessing at a rule that has not been printed is a poor substitute for reading the page in front of you.

For supporters who want their nominee to finish well, the practical lever is reach inside the December window: the nominee's teammates, school community and local soccer families, asked early and asked directly, before the window closes. Tactics that work across public-vote polls generally are laid out in our votes guide.

How this poll sits beside The Record's other ballots

This program is one of a family of California high school polls that share the same public-vote shape. Sibling programs on this site include the California High School Baseball Player of the Week, the California High School Boys Basketball Player of the Week, the California High School Football Player of the Week, the California High School Girls Basketball Athlete of the Week, and the California High School Softball Player of the Week. A further neighbour is the Fresno Bee Athlete of the Week, a different publisher's athlete poll in the same state.

What separates this program from those siblings is the combination of publisher, sport and cadence. The Record is the organizer here, girls soccer is the sport, and the cadence is a preseason award rather than a weekly series: the ballot appears once ahead of the season, runs through its December window, and closes with a settled result. The weekly player-of-the-week programs run on a rolling rhythm through their seasons, with a fresh ballot each week, while this poll is a single seasonal event per edition.

The contrast with the Fresno Bee program is instructive for anyone mapping California's newspaper athlete polls. Both are public votes on high school athletes run by California newspapers, but they answer to different publishers, different coverage areas and different ballots. A vote cast in one counts only in that program, and each program's rules live on its own ballot page.

A supporter should, before rallying votes, check which program a nominee actually belongs to. The Record's preseason girls soccer poll is decided entirely on its own poll.fm ballot, in its own December window, by whatever audience the publisher's soccer coverage reaches.