MileSplit Colorado Girls Performer of the Week: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the MileSplit Colorado Girls Performer of the Week is

MileSplit, a national publication covering track and field and cross country, publishes a Colorado edition of its performer of the week series honoring high school girls. During the running season the MileSplit Colorado staff names a shortlist of standout female performers from that week's Colorado high school track and field and cross country action and hands the decision to the public: whichever nominee collects the most supporter votes takes the weekly honor.

The vote takes place on a Crowdsignal ballot reached through poll.fm, and the series' live ballot sits at https://poll.fm/16983296. MileSplit's own articles direct readers to vote in the poll below, hosted by poll.fm, so the publisher and the polling host are plainly separate: editorial and nominations live on co.milesplit.com, while the tally itself lives on Crowdsignal.

The program is statewide. It covers Colorado high school girls running as a whole rather than a single city, school or conference, and in contest terms it sits in the best-of family of public-vote programs, though unlike the reader's-choice business ballots common in that family, it honors athletes. The table underneath collects the program's fixed details.

Seasons, weekly windows and dated facts

The series is well established. A Colorado Girls Performer of the Week poll covering March 6-12 was published on MileSplit Colorado on Mar 13, 2023, which anchors the program's printed history to that year, and confirmed seasons run in 2024, 2025 and 2026.

Inside a season the program moves week to week. An early-fall ballot covered Sept. 5-11, and a later ballot, titled 05/04-10, has since closed; its published tally put the leading nominee at 43% on 19 votes and the runner-up at 34% on 15 votes.

Close times are printed per ballot. The most recent close time cited for the series is Thursday, September 25th at 11:59pm MT, printed on the nominations article for that week's ballot.

Some facts remain off the page. MileSplit does not publish a fixed list of award categories for this series, nor any stated limit on how frequently a single supporter may vote; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The opening date of each new weekly ballot is likewise not announced ahead of time, and the nominations article is where each week's deadline first appears.

How a supporter votes this week

Supporting a nominee takes minutes. Each week MileSplit Colorado publishes a nominations article introducing the ballot; the article's own line reads, "Here are the nominations for performer of the week!" The poll linked from it opens on Crowdsignal, so the nomination step is a visible stage of every week: supporters see exactly who is on the ballot before they ever visit poll.fm.

The ballot itself is a plain poll.fm page. It lists that week's Colorado high school girls nominees, individual runners and relay squads alike, each shown with a live percentage and vote tally while the poll is open. A supporter scrolls the list, selects the radio button beside the nominee they back, and submits; the page updates the tally immediately.

After the printed close time passes, the poll is marked closed and the result stands; MileSplit Colorado's coverage then moves on to the next week's nominations. Whether the poll asks anything of a supporter beyond the selection itself is not stated on the published pages, so the selection and submission are the only steps a supporter can plan around.

How this ballot sits beside its Colorado neighbours

The MileSplit Colorado Girls Performer of the Week shares its state with six other public-vote programs, all of them best-of ballots but of a different species. 5280's Top of the Town, Westword's Best of Denver, NOCO Style's Best of NOCO, the Gazette's Best of the Springs, Best of Summit County and Steamboat's Best of the Boat are reader's-choice contests in which businesses and local institutions compete across many categories in long campaigns. This program is narrower and faster: a weekly honor for Colorado high school girls runners, decided on a single poll.fm ballot that lives for days, not months.

That difference matters for supporters. A vote in 5280's contest or Westword's is a vote inside a lengthy, multi-category campaign, while a vote here is a sprint against a printed close time inside a single week. The audiences overlap only partly: high school running families versus the broader local readership those city and regional ballots court. The neighbours, for readers who want the wider Colorado picture: Top of the Town, Best of Denver, Best of NOCO, Best of the Springs, Best of Summit County and Best of the Boat.

Turning out support before the close time

Because the ballot is a straight public tally on poll.fm, winning this weekly honor depends on turning out real voters before the printed close time. The nominations article gives supporters something concrete to pass along: send the poll.fm link around to teammates, parents and classmates, name the nominee being backed, and remind people that the poll closes at the deadline printed that week. MileSplit has not published a stated policy on organized voting help for this series, and the organizer's own rules govern anything beyond ordinary sharing. For broader tactics that suit short-window polls, see our votes guide at get more votes online, and on the broader subject of paid support for award-style ballots like this weekly honor, see buy award votes.