Vote: Who is the Florida Big Bend Prep Softball Player of the Week: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Big Bend softball honor ballot is and who runs it

This page is a factual reference for a single prep softball honor: the weekly Florida Big Bend player of the week question, a public-vote award for girls prep softball in the Big Bend region of Florida. Florida Big Bend holds the organizer title for the program, and Crowdsignal, the poll.fm service, carries the ballot at poll.fm/16676670, which is the direct voting link.

In vertical terms this is a sports ballot. Each cycle, a shortlist of prep softball players from Big Bend area schools is placed on a Crowdsignal poll, and readers decide the outcome by popular vote. Because each nominee is a prep athlete, this page deliberately describes the ballot without naming any individual player, coach or school community member.

The polling format is the same one Sports Illustrated's Florida prep coverage uses for its regional weekly features, and the outcome is decided entirely by how many selections each nominee collects before the ballot closes. Nothing on the ballot costs money to enter, and no paid tier exists; a supporter's only action is choosing a name and submitting.

Facts at a glance

Dated rounds of the ballot and the 2026 window

The ballot has confirmed runs in 2025 and 2026, and those two years are the seasons for which polls are documented, with the next cycle expected in 2027. Nothing in the published material claims a starting year earlier than 2025, so 2025 is the earliest season anyone can point to. The feature runs weekly inside a season rather than as one single ballot per year.

The most recent documented round carries the headline Vote: Who is the Florida Big Bend HS Softball Player of the Week, dated Feb. 24, 2026, and marked Poll Closed. The organizer's own coverage states that voting shut on March 1 late in the evening Pacific time, which places the live window of the 2026 cycle squarely in late February and the first days of March.

What the organizer has not printed is the opening day of the next ballot, nor a roster of future rounds, so the precise start and end of any given week's voting is something to confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The nominee list is equally round-specific: each week's poll names its own shortlist of players, and no master list of nominees or winner history has been laid out on the ballot page.

A supporter should read this simply: during a season, a new weekly question appears on the Crowdsignal host at intervals the organizer sets, and the freshest link is the one worth checking. Between seasons, the 2026 link remains the last documented address for the program.

How a supporter votes on the Crowdsignal ballot today

Few fan ballots ask less of the person voting. A backer loads the ballot page at poll.fm/16676670, reads the question at the top, and finds the nominee shortlist beneath it. Each nominee appears as a selectable option. Choosing one and pressing the vote button registers the choice immediately, and Crowdsignal shows the confirmation on screen.

Nominations run ahead of the vote. The organizer invites readers to send future weekly nominations in by email and through a contact on the social platform X, which is how the following week's shortlist gets built. That means the pipeline has two halves: a nomination step driven by readers and coaches, and a voting step open to anyone with the ballot link.

No account, sign-in or fee is involved. A backer does not need a Crowdsignal profile to take part in this poll, and the choice counts as soon as the submission goes through while the round is open. Once a poll is marked closed, as the Feb. 24, 2026 ballot is, the options remain visible but no longer accept submissions.

Because the shortlist rotates weekly during the season, a backer who follows a particular player should check back for the new ballot rather than assuming the same link carries a fresh question every week. The voting URL on this page is the address documented for the program, and the newest round of the season lives at the organizer's current link.

How this ballot sits beside the Central Florida weekly programs

Florida carries a family of weekly prep sports ballots, and this softball poll is the Big Bend entry. Six sibling programs cover the Central Florida region instead: 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 ballots, the football ballot, and the girls flag football ballot.

What separates this program from those six is the combination of sport and region. The Central Florida ballots cover a different part of the state, and none of them is the softball award, so a supporter searching for Big Bend softball should land here rather than on a Central Florida page. All of the programs share the weekly cadence and the fan-vote mechanic, and they run on the same polling platform family.

For the market, the takeaway is that Florida prep sports voting is segmented by region and by sport, so counts, nominee pools and closing times belong to each ballot individually rather than to the family as a whole. A result on the Big Bend softball poll has no bearing on any Central Florida ballot, and backing earned on one does not carry to another.

Strengthening support for a nominee on this ballot

The organizer's words on frequency are explicit: this poll is described as "intended to be fun", with participation left uncapped during a competition. That makes repeat visits the core of any legitimate push for a nominee here, since nothing in the published rules restricts how often a backer may return while the round is open.

The practical moves follow directly from the mechanic. Share the ballot address with team families, classmates and local supporters while the round is live, remind them during the window rather than after a close, and make sure everyone who backs the player actually presses the vote button rather than just reading the shortlist. Nominations for future rounds go in by email and social media, so a player hoping to appear on an upcoming ballot should start there.

For a fuller rundown of outreach tactics that fit fan-vote polls like this one, see how to get more votes online, which covers promotion without touching the ballot's own rules.