The Palm Beach Post's Girls Volleyball Player of the Year winners: Vote for the best: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Palm Beach Post volleyball Player of the Year vote is

The Palm Beach Post's Girls Volleyball Player of the Year winners: Vote for the best is a best-of award ballot for high school girls volleyball in Palm Beach, Florida. The organizer is The Palm Beach Post, a Florida newspaper whose sports desk publishes high school volleyball coverage at palmbeachpost.com. The vote itself is hosted by Crowdsignal at poll.fm, and the live ballot sits at https://poll.fm/15503678.

Structurally, this is a reader choice among names the newspaper has already recognised. A supporter reads the list of the Post's Player of the Year honorees from past girls volleyball seasons and picks the one they consider the best. There is no nomination form, no entry fee and no bracket, just one selection from the published honorees.

What makes this programme unusual among publisher awards is its scope. Most reader polls ask about a current season or a single week of games. This one is a retrospective: the 2025 ballot invited readers to weigh honorees from seasons spanning 2000 to 2025 against each other, turning a quarter-century of the Post's volleyball reporting into one public choice.

Facts at a glance

The dated record for this volleyball ballot

This programme has two confirmed edition years: 2023 and 2025. The 2025 ballot is the most recent, and the Post's own coverage describes the series as an annual feature, with a next round expected in 2026. The ballot's subject reaches much further back than its edition years: the 2025 poll asked readers to choose among honorees recognised from 2000 to 2025, so the award's history and the vote's history are two different timelines.

The 2025 ballot carried a close of noon on Sept. 23, 2025, and the poll.fm page now labels it Poll Closed. Results stay viewable at the same address. No opening date for the round that produced this ballot was printed alongside the close, and the Post has not yet announced when the 2026 volleyball vote will begin.

Several details a supporter would want are absent from the ballot page. The Post has not printed an opening date, a category roster, or any per-supporter cap for the next volleyball round; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The same applies to eligibility wording and to any round structure beyond the single public vote the 2025 ballot showed.

For planning purposes, the honest picture is this: an annual newspaper award whose confirmed years are 2023 and 2025, a closed 2025 ballot with a published close of noon on Sept. 23, and a 2026 cycle whose shape the publisher has not yet described in print.

How a supporter votes in the Post's volleyball poll

Taking part in the Post's volleyball vote takes three moves. A supporter opens the ballot at the address The Palm Beach Post publishes, reads the list of Player of the Year honorees arranged by season, selects one name, and submits. While the round stays open, the poll.fm page displays the tally as it builds. No nomination step, no login screen and no entry form sit between the supporter and the choice.

Because the 2025 ballot is marked Poll Closed, a supporter arriving today sees the final result rather than a live form. That is normal for a poll.fm ballot after its close passes: the address keeps serving the outcome so readers can still see who won the retrospective vote covering honorees from 2000 to 2025.

The ballot carries no rule text. Nothing on the page describes how often one person may submit, whether an account is needed, or what the Post does about automated submissions in its volleyball vote. Those details live with the organizer, not the platform, and the Post has not printed them for this award.

The practical sequence for the next cycle is therefore: watch the Post's high school volleyball coverage for the 2026 announcement, open the new poll.fm address when it appears, make one choice from the honoree list, and submit before the printed close. Every round resets, so a vote cast in a past year carries nothing forward.

How this ballot sits beside its Florida neighbours

The Palm Beach Post's volleyball award is not the only reader vote of its kind on this site's Florida pages. Six sibling programmes cover Central Florida high school sports, each a weekly player-of-the-week ballot: Central Florida Flag Football Player of the Week, Central Florida High School Baseball Player of the Week, Central Florida High School Boys Basketball Player of the Week, Central Florida High School Football Player of the Week, Central Florida High School Girls Basketball Player of the Week, and Central Florida High School Girls Flag Football Player of the Week.

Two differences separate this programme from those six. First, the cadence: the siblings run week to week during a season, while the Post's volleyball vote is an annual retrospective whose confirmed years are 2023 and 2025. Second, the subject: the siblings ask about current-week performances, while this ballot asks readers to rank honorees from girls volleyball seasons reaching back to 2000.

The market differs too. The siblings serve Central Florida communities; this award belongs to Palm Beach and to readers of The Palm Beach Post. A supporter interested in Florida high school sports votes can follow both markets, but each ballot answers to a different publisher and a different schedule, so a date or rule from one never transfers to the other.

Strengthening support in the Post's volleyball vote

Support in this programme means moving people to a single-choice poll.fm ballot during a short open round. The 2025 ballot closed at noon on Sept. 23, which is typical of how short a publisher award window can be, so outreach for the 2026 round has to start the day the Post announces it, not the week before the close.

The most effective base is the volleyball community itself: teammates, families, classmates and local club players who already follow the Post's high school coverage. Sharing the poll address directly, with a note about which season's honoree a supporter is backing, works better than a bare link because the ballot lists honorees by year and a voter needs context to choose.

On outside help, the Post has not printed a policy for this volleyball ballot, either on purchased votes or on automated submissions. Nothing published permits either, and nothing published bans either. Before any supporter spends money, the award-votes page explains what a purchase involves, and the ballot itself is the place to check for rules the Post may add round by round.