Colorado Online Voting Contests

Colorado Baseball Player of the Week

Statewide Colorado · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)

Weekly spring fan vote from High School on SI at si.com/high-school/colorado/baseball, confirmed live in May 2025 as a "top hitters" format: a rotating list of standout CHSAA batting performances rather than one all-around nominee per school. Free to vote, no account required; no per-device cap or results archive is publicly documented.

Colorado Boys Basketball Player of the Week

Statewide Colorado · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)

Weekly winter fan-vote poll from High School on SI, running January through March alongside SI's confirmed Colorado boys basketball rankings at si.com/high-school/colorado. Nominees are pulled from CHSAA member schools statewide; no account is needed to vote, and the winner runs in a dated feature article.

Colorado Football Defensive Player of the Week

Statewide Colorado · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)

Weekly fall fan-vote poll from High School on SI at si.com/high-school/colorado/football, splitting a defense-only ballot off Colorado's combined weekly poll, a structure mirroring Georgia and Maryland's 2025 offense/defense divide. Draws from all six CHSAA classes, 1A through 6A. Free to vote, no account required.

Colorado Football Offensive Player of the Week

Statewide Colorado · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)

Weekly fall fan-vote poll from Sports Illustrated's High School on SI network at si.com/high-school/colorado/football, spotlighting one standout Colorado prep offensive performer each week of the CHSAA season, a split modeled on Georgia and Maryland's confirmed 2025 offense/defense ballots. Free to vote, no account required; the hub doesn't publish an exact per-device cap.

Colorado Football Player of the Week

Statewide Colorado · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)

Weekly fall fan-vote poll from High School on SI at si.com/high-school/colorado/football, open to every CHSAA football program from Class 1A through Class 6A across an August-to-November season. No account is required to vote, live totals show through the week, and the winner runs in a Monday feature article.

Colorado Girls Basketball Player of the Week

Statewide Colorado · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)

Weekly winter fan-vote poll from High School on SI, published on the same si.com/high-school/colorado hub that covers every CHSAA sport statewide. Nominees are pulled from Colorado girls basketball programs across the state; no account is needed to vote, and the winner runs in a dated feature article separate from the boys' ballot.

Colorado High School Athlete of the Week

Statewide Colorado · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)

Statewide weekly fan-vote recognition run by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive) at si.com — covering all CHSAA member schools from Class 1A through 5A, every sport, every season. Voting closes Sunday at 11:59 p.m.; no account needed.

Colorado High School Player of the Year

Statewide Colorado · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)

Annual end-of-season fan-vote recognition at si.com/high-school/colorado, run by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive), crowning a statewide Colorado POY per sport each year across all CHSAA member schools. Free vote, no cap stated.

Colorado High School Softball Player of the Year

Statewide Colorado · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)

Annual end-of-fall-season fan poll at si.com/high-school/colorado, run by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive), crowning the top Colorado girls softball player statewide. Voting is free with no hourly cap; winner decided by fan-vote total at close.

Fort Collins Blue FCU Athlete of the Week

Fort Collins · The Coloradoan (USA Today Network)

The Coloradoan's Blue Federal Credit Union–sponsored weekly fan vote for the top prep athlete in the Fort Collins metro. Two parallel ballots run every week — Boys and Girls — each with five nominees, voting open Monday through Thursday, closing Thursday at 11:59 a.m. sharp.

Pueblo Chieftain Athlete of the Week

The Pueblo Chieftain's weekly fan-vote poll for a standout Pueblo-area high school athlete, open to every sport rather than football only. There is no stated vote-limit restriction, and the ballot closes at midnight Friday, a full two days ahead of the Sunday-night close used by Colorado's statewide SI poll.

Star Local Media Colorado Athlete of the Week

Star Local Media's suburban Denver Athlete of the Week: same weekly format as the publisher's North Texas edition, five to six county nominees, ballot resets every Monday at 10 a.m.

Best of Denver

Westword's annual Best of Denver readers-choice poll reaches its 43rd edition in 2026, with online voting at westword.com/best-of-denver-readers-choice-poll. The alt-weekly has run the program since the early 1980s, though Westword hasn't published this cycle's specific category list, ballot format, or vote cap.

Best of Summit County

Summit Daily News' annual readers-choice ballot for Colorado's I-70 resort corridor — nearly 200 categories across Breckenridge, Frisco, Silverthorne, Dillon, and Keystone, with results announced each October in Silverthorne.

Best of the Boat

Steamboat Pilot & Today's reader-vote awards for Steamboat Springs, a single 140+ category ballot with First, Second, Third, and Top-5 results published per category.

Best of the West (Grand Junction Daily Sentinel)

Grand Junction · Grand Junction Daily Sentinel

Annual Grand Junction Daily Sentinel readers-choice awards for the Western Slope, with a public vote across 162 categories in 8 category groups, a winners gala, and a print winners magazine.

Best of Vail Valley

Vail Daily's annual reader vote across 140+ categories spanning skiing, dining, and local services in the Vail Valley, with winners celebrated at the Vilar Performing Arts Center.

Colorado's Best

The Colorado Sun runs Colorado's Best, an annual voting hub at coloradosun.com/colorados-best. The nonprofit newsroom's public record confirms only the yearly cadence and that single hub URL; no category list, vote cap, ballot structure, or close date is published anywhere The Colorado Sun has made public.

Colorado's Best Denver Metro

The Colorado Sun runs Colorado's Best Denver Metro, an annual regional sub-edition of its statewide Colorado's Best program, voted at coloradosun.com/colorados-best-denver-metro. The public record confirms only the annual cadence and that single URL, and this edition lands in the same Denver-metro market Top of the Town and Best of Denver already serve.

Colorado's Best Northeast

The Colorado Sun runs Colorado's Best Northeast, an annual regional sub-edition of its statewide Colorado's Best program, voted at coloradosun.com/colorados-best-northeast. The newsroom has made public only the annual cadence and that single URL; no category list, vote cap, ballot format, or close date appears anywhere on its site.

Colorado's Best Western Slope

The Colorado Sun runs Colorado's Best Western Slope, an annual regional sub-edition of its statewide Colorado's Best program, voted at coloradosun.com/colorados-best-western-slope. The public record confirms only the annual cadence and that single URL; no category list, vote cap, ballot format, or close date has been published anywhere online.

Top of the Town

5280 Magazine runs Top of the Town, its annual Denver readers-choice program, with public voting at 5280scene.com across the city's consumer business categories. Winners are celebrated each July at an in-person event, separate from the magazine's peer-nominated Top Doctors and Top Lawyers lists.