The PNJ Girls Soccer Midseason Player of the Year: How Voting Works & How to Win

Who votes in the PNJ Girls Soccer Midseason Player of the Year, and why the ballot exists

This program is a fan-decided midseason honor that PNJ runs at the halfway mark of the Florida high school girls soccer season. The publisher assembles a slate of nominees from across the programs it covers, posts them as poll answers on a Crowdsignal page at poll.fm/16394919, and lets readers decide the winner. Nothing on the ballot involves a judging panel or a points system: the nominee with the most public votes when the December window closes takes the midseason title.

The audience is the natural one for a high school girls soccer ballot in Florida: teammates, parents, students, local soccer families and general readers of PNJ's high school sports coverage. Because the nominees are identified by the school each player attends, support tends to organize around a school community rather than around a club or a town rivalry, which is why shareable links to the poll tend to spread through team and parent channels during the December voting stretch.

Because the ballot is midseason rather than end-of-season, it rewards supporters who are paying attention during the school year itself. PNJ publishes the vote, tallies it on the same poll.fm page, and leaves the closed result standing there, which is what makes this ballot easy to verify after the fact: anyone can open the link and see the final percentages for themselves.

The dated history behind the PNJ midseason girls soccer vote

Two seasons carry this program's published history: 2023 and 2025. Each edition sits inside December, with the polling window opening and closing during that month, and no 2024 edition appears among the confirmed years, so the published sequence reads as a 2023 ballot followed by a 2025 ballot. The 2025 poll is the most recent one, its page is marked closed, and a 2026 edition is the likely next run.

The 2025 result is the one dated figure on the ballot: the leading nominee closed at 53% on 16,701 votes, with the runner-up at 21% on 6,674 votes. Those totals are visible on the closed poll page, which is where supporters went to vote during the December window and where the final standings still sit.

Beyond the tally, the published page stays quiet on several points. PNJ gives no advance December dates for the coming window, no category roster beyond the player of the year balloting itself, no eligibility text and no per-supporter frequency rule, and the platform side shows no separately published round dates for this market either. Each of those gaps resolves the same way: confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

What is published is enough to anchor expectations: an annual midseason vote, a December window, a Crowdsignal ballot at a stable address, and a closed poll page that keeps the final tally public after the winner is decided. Anything beyond that changes from cycle to cycle and belongs to the live page.

Casting a vote in the PNJ midseason girls soccer poll

Voting takes three plain movements, which is why PNJ's readers can move through it quickly. A supporter opens poll.fm/16394919, sees the slate of midseason nominees listed as poll answers with each player's school beside her name, selects one nominee, and submits the form. The vote registers against that nominee on the Crowdsignal tally, and no published account requirement stands between the supporter and the vote button.

Because this is a midseason ballot, timing matters more than it would on a season-long award. The window opens and closes inside December, so a supporter who hears about the poll late in the window has little room to rally votes. The practical sequence is to open the ballot as soon as PNJ's midseason coverage points to it, confirm which nominee belongs to the school being supported, and cast the vote early rather than waiting for the final days.

After the window closes, the same address flips from an open poll to a closed one. The closed 2025 page shows the final share of the vote for each nominee, so a supporter can return later and confirm how the school's nominee finished without needing any separate results page. That closed state is also why this page describes the 2025 ballot in the past tense: the live voting form for the next cycle does not exist until PNJ posts it.

One practical note for supporters: the ballot carries no published frequency standard for repeat voting, so treat return visits conservatively and let the December window, not repeated submissions, carry the effort.

Where the PNJ soccer ballot sits among its Florida neighbours

This program belongs to a family of Florida high school public votes, but it is shaped differently from its neighbours. The sibling ballots on this site are all Central Florida weekly honors: 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 player of the week ballots, the football player of the week, and the girls flag football player of the week.

Three differences set the PNJ ballot apart. First, it answers to PNJ and its own readership rather than to the Central Florida series that the sibling programs share. Second, it honors girls soccer at midseason, a sport and a moment in the calendar that none of the sibling weeklies covers. Third, it is an award decided once per edition rather than a weekly series, so a supporter has one December window per year instead of a fresh ballot every seven days.

That shape changes what a supporter's effort looks like. Weekly ballots spread attention across a season, while this PNJ midseason vote compresses the whole campaign into a single December window on one Crowdsignal page, so one well-placed link during the window does the work that several weekly pushes would do elsewhere. For readers comparing the two formats, the sibling routes above show what a weekly series looks like in the same state and the same sport vertical.

Strengthening support during the PNJ midseason December window

A midseason ballot with a December window favours supporters who organize early. The single highest-value action is putting the poll.fm/16394919 link where the school community already gathers: the team group chat, the parent channel, the school's social accounts. Because the window opens and closes inside one month, a share placed while the window is still young reaches far more voters than the same share placed near the close.

PNJ's ballot publishes no statement either way on paid votes, organized pushes or outside help, so there is no organizer position to lean on for this program. What the ballot does publish is the tally itself, and the 2025 result showed a clear gap between a nominee at 53% and one at 21%, which is the kind of margin that steady community sharing, rather than a last-day scramble, is built to produce.

For a fuller playbook on organic outreach, see our guide to getting more votes online, and for the award-ballot context specifically, our award votes page explains what these player-of-the-year polls are and how they are usually run. Both pages describe the organizer side of the picture rather than promising any particular outcome.