The PNJ Boys Lacrosse Midseason Player of the Year: How Voting Works & How to Win

A midseason honor, not a weekly award

Most high school fan ballots in Florida run week by week, but this one does not. The PNJ Boys Lacrosse Midseason Player of the Year asks readers to judge the first half of the lacrosse schedule in one vote rather than rewarding a single week's performance. That timing is the program's defining trait and the clearest line between it and the player-of-the-week ballots run elsewhere in the state.

The organizer is PNJ, the sports publisher serving the Pensacola area in northwest Florida. PNJ posts the ballot on Crowdsignal, the service that operates poll.fm, and the current voting page lives at poll.fm/16764377. Voting itself is simple: the page lists the midseason nominees, a supporter selects one, and the running tally updates as votes land.

The nominee list is drawn from high schools across the Panhandle. Schools named on the ballot include Milton, Gulf Breeze, Navarre and Pensacola Catholic, which puts the award at the center of the Pensacola-area lacrosse community rather than a single school's fan base. Since every nominee is a high school athlete, they are identified here by school and town, and this page campaigns for no individual.

Facts at a glance

The dated record for the PNJ lacrosse ballot

The confirmed edition list holds three years: 2023, 2025 and 2026. The list skips 2024, so the run has not appeared continuously in print, and no page should describe the award as having run every year since 2023. The 2026 cycle is the most recent, and the next expected edition is 2027.

The one dated anchor for the live window is the close. The 2026 ballot is stated to end on January 15, 2026, with the publisher's own wording reading "Voting will close at 11 a.m. on January 15." That gives supporters a hard morning cutoff, unusual among fan polls that run to midnight, and it means any push for a nominee has to be finished before midday on the closing date.

The tally on the 2026 ballot shows how tight the race ran. The leading nominee held 43 percent of the vote on 3,245 votes, while the runner-up held 30 percent on 2,302 votes, so roughly five and a half thousand votes decided the midseason honor. Those figures come from the published tally on the poll.fm page itself.

What PNJ has not printed is the other half of the window: no opening date for the lacrosse ballot and no dates for any platform rounds appear alongside the close; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

How a supporter votes on the PNJ lacrosse ballot

The route in is poll.fm/16764377, where every nominee line carries a player's name beside his school. A supporter reads through the list, marks one radio button, and presses the vote control. Crowdsignal logs the pick and refreshes the page with the updated tally, so a supporter immediately sees where the race stands in the PNJ midseason field.

Two practical points shape the effort. First, the stated close for 2026 is 11 a.m. on January 15, a morning cutoff that catches out anyone assuming a midnight deadline. Second, PNJ has published no repeat-vote rule for this lacrosse ballot, so the page does not state whether a supporter may vote once or return on later days. Anyone planning a multi-day push should read what the live ballot itself says about repeat voting before building a routine.

No account step is described by the publisher for this ballot, and no eligibility note for voters appears alongside the nominee list. That keeps friction low for school communities rallying support, but it also means the organizer's enforcement posture, if any, is not written down anywhere a supporter can read in advance. The safe assumption is that the published tally is the whole game: votes that land before the close are what count, and nothing on the ballot suggests a review step beyond what Crowdsignal applies to every poll it hosts.

How this ballot sits beside its Florida neighbours

The sibling programs on this site are all Central Florida weekly awards: the Central Florida Flag Football Player of the Week, the Central Florida High School Baseball Player of the Week, the Boys Basketball and Girls Basketball weekly votes, and the football and girls flag football editions. Those ballots reset every week and reward a single game; the PNJ lacrosse honor asks for a verdict on half a season.

The publishers differ too. The Central Florida programs answer to their own market's outlets, while this ballot belongs to PNJ and its Panhandle readership, with nominees from Milton, Gulf Breeze, Navarre and Pensacola Catholic. A supporter in Pensacola has no route into the Central Florida ballots and vice versa, so effort aimed at the wrong market's page is simply lost.

The sport is the third distinction. Boys lacrosse draws a smaller, tighter community than football or basketball, which cuts both ways: fewer people are voting, so each family, teammate and classmate carries more weight in the tally, and the 2026 race still drew thousands of votes. For a midseason award, that turnout shows how seriously Panhandle lacrosse families treat the honor, and it explains why the single January 15 cutoff matters more here than a weekly deadline would.

Strengthening support before the PNJ close

Because this is one vote on half a season rather than a weekly reset, the winning play is concentrated outreach before the January 15, 2026, 11 a.m. close. The lacrosse community around Milton, Gulf Breeze, Navarre and the other ballot schools is small enough that direct asks work: team group chats, parent networks and the program's own social accounts can each point supporters to the poll.fm ballot with a name to select.

PNJ leaves outside help unaddressed for this lacrosse vote; no written allowance or prohibition exists to lean on. What is written is the close time, and that is the constraint to plan around. For readers weighing paid support, the get more votes guide covers organic outreach first, and the service pages describe packages without promising any result, since no service can guarantee an outcome in a poll the publisher tallies on its own platform.