The EZ Cash of Delaware, Inc Athlete of the Week: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the EZ Cash of Delaware, Inc Athlete of the Week is and who runs it

The EZ Cash of Delaware, Inc Athlete of the Week is Delmarva Now's weekly fan vote for high school sport across Delaware and the wider Delmarva region, reaching Southern Delaware and the Eastern Shore of Maryland. It is published by Delmarva Now, the regional news outlet whose sports desk follows athletes across the peninsula, and the title sponsor is EZ Cash of Delaware, Inc, whose name appears in every poll's headline.

The balloting itself is hosted by Crowdsignal, reachable through poll.fm. The most recent ballot sits at https://poll.fm/17033835, and each weekly edition replaces the previous poll at that address during the season. Any visitor can select a nominee and submit, with no registration step described by the publisher.

The table below collects the fixed identity facts for the program in one place.

Because the series honors individual high school athletes, the ballot options change from week to week with the performances being recognized, and no fixed roster of honorees carries over between polls.

The dated record for this Delaware athlete of the week series

Confirmed seasons for the series sit in 2025 and 2026, established from the weekly ballots published across those years. The cadence within a season is strictly weekly: Delmarva Now's own voting instructions say that every week this season, fans across Delmarva can vote for the EZ Cash of Delaware, Inc Athlete of the Week, with a new poll following each round.

The weekly rhythm has three fixed points. Nominations, drawn from performances over the previous week, must be submitted by Sunday at 8 p.m. The poll then opens each Monday morning and closes each Thursday at 3 p.m. The window most recently on file ran May 18-24 and now shows a closed poll status, which is the normal state of any edition after its Thursday cutoff passes.

What the publisher does not print with the poll is the slate of sports and nomination categories that feed each week's ballot; which sports appear, and how nominees are grouped, is something to confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Season start and end dates are likewise a moving target, because the series runs alongside the high school sports calendar rather than on fixed calendar dates. The first poll of a season and the last are announced by the publisher week by week rather than on a published annual schedule.

How a supporter votes on the current Delmarva Now poll

The action a supporter performs is short. The ballot lives at https://poll.fm/17033835 on Crowdsignal. During an open window, Monday morning through Thursday at 3 p.m., the page displays that week's nominated athletes with their sports named beside them. A supporter selects a nominee on the poll and submits the choice there.

Two printed rules shape everything around that action. Delmarva Now states that votes will only be counted from the provided poll, which rules out any side channel: a response sent by email, for example, contributes nothing, and the publisher asks supporters not to email their vote at all. The counting rule makes the poll itself the single place a submission matters.

The second fixed point is the weekly reset. After the Thursday 3 p.m. cutoff, the poll flips to a closed status, as the May 18-24 edition now shows, and the following Monday morning brings a fresh poll with a new slate of nominees. Supporting an athlete therefore means acting inside that specific week's window; a vote intended for last week's edition has nowhere to land once that poll has closed.

Whether a single supporter may submit more than once during a week's open window is not addressed in the publisher's printed instructions, so the behavior of the live poll page during an open window is the authority on repeat submissions.

How this poll sits beside Delaware's other athlete of the week votes

Delaware carries a busy field of weekly athlete polls, and this one differs from its neighbours on publisher, sponsor and reach. The 302Sports.com Athlete of the Week belongs to a separate local sports outlet. The Delaware Online Football Athlete of the Week and the Delaware Online Winter Athlete of the Week come from Delaware Online and are split by sport and season rather than spanning the whole slate.

The Sports Illustrated franchise also runs in the state through three separate ballots: the SI Delaware High School Boys Basketball Athlete of the Week, the SI Delaware High School Girls Basketball Athlete of the Week, and the SI Delaware High School Football Athlete of the Week, each tied to a specific sport.

Against that field, the EZ Cash of Delaware, Inc Athlete of the Week stands out as Delmarva Now's own branded poll, carrying a commercial title sponsor in its headline and drawing nominees from across the Delmarva coverage area rather than from a single sport. A supporter following Delaware high school sports may therefore meet this poll and its neighbours in the same season, each answering to a different publisher with a different weekly rhythm.

Strengthening support within this poll's rules

Support for a nominee here has to fit inside a narrow weekly window, which shapes every useful tactic. The poll is live only from Monday morning to Thursday at 3 p.m., so the biggest gain comes from timing: share the poll link early in the window, when supporters still have days to act, rather than in the final hours. Because the publisher counts only submissions from the provided poll and rejects emailed votes, every reminder should point directly at poll.fm/17033835 and name the nominee's sport so backers pick the right entry.

The nomination deadline matters too. Nominations close Sunday at 8 p.m., and nominees are drawn from the previous week's performances, so a standout week needs to reach the publisher's sports desk before that Sunday cutoff to appear on any ballot at all.

Delmarva Now's printed instructions say nothing about purchased or outside voting support; the only stated counting rule is that votes come from the poll itself. Anyone weighing outside help should read that rule as the boundary and judge the ethics for a ballot honoring student athletes accordingly. For a fuller treatment of building support in fan votes of this kind, see how to get more votes online.