The High School Preseason Girls Soccer Player of the Year Around Springfield: How Voting Works & How to Win

A preseason ballot from The State Journal-Register, not a weekly feature

The State Journal-Register, the daily newspaper covering Springfield, Illinois, runs a single fan ballot each year asking readers to name a preseason favorite among the area's high school girls soccer standouts. The poll carries no separate brand name beyond its own title: the high school preseason girls soccer player of the year around Springfield, the exact phrasing the newspaper uses on its own ballot page.

Voting happens on Crowdsignal, a general-purpose polling platform readers reach through the short address poll.fm/15210694. Crowdsignal does not run the newsroom's coverage or choose the nominee list; it only hosts the ballot the newspaper builds. That distinction matters for anyone with a question about eligibility or a missing name: The State Journal-Register's own sports desk, not Crowdsignal, decides who appears on the ballot.

The nominees on this ballot are high school students, so no individual name from any edition appears in this guide; only the publisher, the sport and the season identify the program here. Whoever a reader wants to support, The State Journal-Register's own ballot page carries the current nominee list, accurate for whichever window is open.

Two springs confirmed, not an unbroken streak

Two editions are confirmed for this ballot: one in 2023 and another in 2025. The gap between them is not explained anywhere the newspaper has published, so the two known years are stated plainly rather than assuming a 2024 round simply went uncounted. The more recent of the two, the 2025 edition, fell in March, which lines up with the preseason framing: the poll asks readers to pick a favorite before Illinois's spring girls soccer season is underway, not after it ends.

For the Springfield-area preseason poll, The State Journal-Register keeps its category breakdown, its per-voter limit, and the exact day-level window off the public page entirely; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. No separate promotional calendar for this ballot appears in the polling network's own listings either, so a reader hoping to plan around a fixed release date each year has no published schedule to work from beyond the March pattern the 2025 round set.

What is dated with confidence is the platform address itself: poll.fm/15210694 is where the confirmed 2025 ballot lived, and Crowdsignal keeps a closed poll's page online rather than removing it, which is why that specific address remains the reference point for this program's most recent round.

From poll.fm/15210694 to a submitted ballot

A supporter opens poll.fm/15210694 in any browser and lands directly on the ballot The State Journal-Register built for its preseason honor in girls soccer. The page loads the full nominee list drawn from the newspaper's own coverage; reaching it requires no account or login, since Crowdsignal's public polls are built to be answered by anyone holding the link.

From there the action is a single tap: pick one name from the list and submit. Crowdsignal saves the response immediately and swaps the ballot view for a confirmation once the choice registers, which is the signal that the vote actually counted rather than sitting unsent in a browser tab someone closed too early.

Because The State Journal-Register has not published how many times one person may repeat that action, treat whatever the live page currently allows, whether that is a single response or a repeatable one, as the rule in force for that specific round rather than a fixed policy carried over from a past edition. A closed round of this same ballot stays visible on Crowdsignal after voting ends, showing how the 2025 count settled, which is useful context for anyone arriving after a window has already shut.

Unlike the paper's weekly polls, this one runs once a season

The State Journal-Register runs more than one reader ballot across its high school sports coverage, and this preseason girls soccer poll is the once-a-season kind rather than a running weekly feature. That distinction is worth stating plainly for anyone comparing programs: a once-a-season ballot like this one asks for a single preseason judgment, while a weekly athlete-of-the-week format repeats the whole cycle, nomination and vote, every week of a season.

None of those six programs share a nominee pool or a result with the Springfield soccer ballot; doing well in one changes nothing about how the others are judged, since each belongs to its own newsroom's own schedule. A supporter who follows girls soccer specifically will find this preseason vote the more direct fit among the six, since the others cover football, basketball or a general athlete-of-the-week format rather than a single-sport preseason honor.

Building real support for a Springfield-area nominee

The State Journal-Register has not published a stance on outside help for this specific ballot, so the safest reading is ordinary participation: ask people who actually know the nominee, teammates, classmates, family and the wider soccer community around Springfield, to open poll.fm/15210694 themselves and cast a real response. Since the newspaper has not said whether repeat voting is even allowed this round, building a push around one supporter clicking many times is a bet against an unpublished rule, not a strategy.

Timing works in a supporter's favor here more than volume does: with only a March window confirmed and no fixed opening date announced ahead of time, watching for The State Journal-Register's own coverage each preseason is how a community avoids missing the round entirely. Building real momentum for an online ballot covers tactics that work regardless of whatever rule the newspaper eventually publishes.