34 contests with public online voting in Indiana — Athlete of the Week and more. Real, paced votes; honest guidance on each contest's rules.
The Bloomington Herald-Times' IU Health-presented weekly fan vote for South- Central Indiana's top high school performance. Anyone can vote as often as they like, and 2026 polls have drawn thousands of votes per week across softball, baseball, and track.
Evansville · Evansville Courier & Press (Gannett / USA TODAY Network)
Free weekly fan poll at courierpress.com run by the Evansville Courier & Press (Gannett / USA TODAY Network), recognising the top Southwest Indiana high school athlete each sports season. One vote per hour per device, no account needed. Routinely draws 41,000+ votes per weekly poll — among the highest totals in the Gannett network.
Evansville · Evansville Courier & Press (Gannett / USA TODAY Network)
A free preseason and end-of-season fan vote at courierpress.com from the Evansville Courier & Press (Gannett / USA TODAY Network), separate from the paper's weekly Athlete of the Week poll and focused only on Southwest Indiana football. The 2025 preseason edition drew more than 85,500 total votes.
Statewide Indiana · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)
Statewide weekly fan-vote recognition published at si.com by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive), covering every IHSAA member school across all three Indiana prep sports seasons. Voting is unlimited, free, and open through Sunday 11:59 p.m.
Statewide Indiana · IndyStar (Gannett / USA TODAY Network)
Spring season fan-vote award published by IndyStar (Gannett / USA TODAY Network) and High School on SI, naming the top Indiana prep baseball player. All IHSAA member schools are eligible; readers vote free online at the close of each IHSAA spring season.
The Indiana Preps Sports Network statewide weekly reader poll crowns a prep football standout each week of the regular season. Editors and fans alike submit nominees via email; vote percentages and total counts are published with every winner announcement — and Week 3 of 2025 was decided by exactly 21 votes.
Statewide Indiana · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)
Season-end fan-vote award published by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive) at si.com/high-school/indiana, recognising the top Indiana prep athlete per sport at the close of each IHSAA season. No per-vote cap; all 400-plus IHSAA member schools eligible.
Statewide Indiana · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)
High School on SI's season-end fan vote for Indiana boys basketball, published at si.com/high-school/indiana. Nominees are chosen editorially from standout performances across every IHSAA class, then combined onto one statewide ballot rather than following the state tournament's four-class split. Free to vote, no account required.
Statewide Indiana · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)
Statewide fan vote run by High School on SI at si.com/high-school/indiana, merging all six IHSAA football classes into one combined ballot instead of a stand-alone Class 3A contest. Free to vote, no account needed; the nominee field is chosen editorially from standout performances across every enrollment tier, not through fan nomination.
Statewide Indiana · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)
Statewide fan vote run by High School on SI at si.com/high-school/indiana, pooling all six IHSAA football classes into a single combined ballot instead of a Class 4A-only contest. Free to vote, no account needed; the field is chosen editorially from standout performances across every enrollment tier, not through fan nomination.
Statewide Indiana · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)
Statewide fan vote run by High School on SI at si.com/high-school/indiana, folding Indiana football's six IHSAA classes — 1A through 6A — into one combined ballot rather than a Class 5A-only contest. Free to vote, no account needed; nominees are chosen editorially from the season's standout performances across every enrollment tier.
Statewide Indiana · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)
Statewide fan vote run by High School on SI at si.com/high-school/indiana, covering Indiana football's full IHSAA class ladder — Class 1A through Class 6A — on one combined ballot rather than a per-class contest. Free to vote, no account needed; nominees are chosen editorially from the season's standout performances.
Statewide Indiana · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)
High School on SI's season-end statewide fan vote for Indiana football, published at si.com/high-school/indiana. One ballot covers every IHSAA class at once rather than splitting by enrollment size. The confirmed 2024 field carried eight nominees, including a Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School entrant. Free to vote, no account required.
Statewide Indiana · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)
Free statewide fan vote from High School on SI for Indiana girls basketball, hosted at si.com/high-school/indiana. One combined ballot spans all four IHSAA enrollment classes rather than crowning a winner per class. The Indiana desk builds the nominee field editorially, and the ballot typically opens once the girls' state finals wrap in February.
Statewide Indiana · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)
Free statewide fan vote from High School on SI for Indiana girls softball, hosted at si.com/high-school/indiana. One combined ballot spans all four IHSAA classes, not a separate winner per class. The Indiana desk builds the nominee field editorially; voting typically opens once the softball state finals wrap in June.
Indianapolis · The Indianapolis Star (IndyStar) — Gannett / USA TODAY Network
Free weekly fan-vote poll published at indystar.com by The Indianapolis Star (Gannett / USA TODAY Network) on the SecondStreet platform, recognising the top Indianapolis-metro high school athlete each IHSAA sports season. One vote per hour per device, no account required.
Indianapolis · Indianapolis Star / IndyStar
The Indianapolis Star's statewide fan vote for Indiana's best girls basketball performance of the week. IndyStar sports desk picks the nominees; anyone can vote embedded in the article; the poll closes noon Wednesday in the regular season, and the regionals round pushed the close to noon Friday — a deadline that does not stay fixed across the tournament, so the day you have to check is never a given.
Fort Wayne · Outside the Huddle
Outside the Huddle's weekly Google Forms fan vote for the top boys basketball performance in Northeast Indiana — sponsored by Crazy Pinz, nominated by coaches, and open Sunday through Tuesday at 5 p.m. Blackhawk Christian, Columbia City, Bishop Dwenger, and Bishop Luers have all produced confirmed winners.
Northeast Indiana · Outside the Huddle
Outside the Huddle's weekly fan-choice poll for the best NE Indiana high school football performance. Coaches submit stat lines to [email protected]; Outside the Huddle picks the nominees; fans vote via a Google Form from Saturday through 5 p.m. Tuesday. Sponsored by Crazy Pinz Entertainment Center.
The Elkhart Truth's annual reader-choice ballot for Elkhart County, Indiana, running nominate-then-vote across categories like best hamburgers, best auto repair, and best grocery, with a $100 gift-card incentive for the 2026 cycle.
Northwest Indiana · The Times of Northwest Indiana (Times Media Company)
Annual Northwest Indiana readers-choice business awards run by The Times of Northwest Indiana (nwi.com), with public nomination and daily online voting across hundreds of local business categories.
IndyStar's Community's Choice Awards for Indianapolis, run on the YourChoiceAwards platform across 140+ local business categories, with a nomination round, a finalist ballot, and winners honored at a gala.
CommunityVotes Bloomington IN 2025, a readers-choice business awards program at bloomingtonin.communityvotes.com, runs inside Indiana's only CommunityVotes market built substantially around a university, Indiana University Bloomington, rather than a river city or the state's second-largest city. No public category list, vote cap, or close date is confirmed; check the live 2025 page each cycle.
CommunityVotes Evansville 2026, a Vanderburgh County readers-choice business awards program promoted through two official addresses, evansville.communityvotes.com and yourchoiceawards.com/evansville/, tied to organizers CommunityVotes Evansville and YourChoiceAwards.
CommunityVotes Fort Wayne runs an annual, all-business-category readers-choice vote at fortwayne.communityvotes.com, with the 2026 cycle nominating businesses April 1 through 30 and voting open June 1 through 16. A separate program, the Journal Gazette's own Readers' Choice, also serves Fort Wayne with its own rules.
CommunityVotes South Bend 2025, backed by the South Bend Tribune, runs its readers-choice ballot at southbend.communityvotes.com, with the confirmed 2025 cycle voting October 15 through November 16. No public category list, vote cap, or prior-winner record is confirmed beyond that window and the official site.
The Journal Gazette's annual Fort Wayne Readers' Choice awards run at fortwayne.com/readerschoice, naming a winner plus two finalists in every category. Results publish in a dedicated print pull-out dated October 11, separate from CommunityVotes Fort Wayne Best Of, a different Fort Wayne program run on its own platform.
An annual Fort Wayne business awards program at fortwayne.com. The 2026 cycle nominates through April, opens public voting for a fixed 16-day window from June 1 through June 16, and announces winners July 25. No published category list, vote cap, or ballot structure appears in the confirmed record for this guide.
Indiana Contests Readers' Choice is indianacontests.com's statewide readers-choice ballot, spanning 200-plus business categories across multiple Indiana metro markets. Nominations open each July, voting runs in August, and winners are announced in November, through a platform described as a multi-paper aggregation spanning Gannett-network and independently run Indiana outlets.
Indianapolis Monthly's annual reader ballot spanning roughly 150 categories across restaurants, services, shopping, and professionals, run online at vote.indianapolismonthly.com.
NIBCA, the NW Indiana Builders & Contractors Association, runs the Parade of Homes with a public vote at poh.nibca.com tied to a defined event window rather than a standing ballot. Specific dates, categories, and entry rules for builders aren't published in the confirmed record; check the live site each cycle.
NW Indiana Business Magazine's Best of Business is a business-to-business readers' choice ballot at nwindianabusiness.com, honoring companies across Indiana's Region rather than restaurants or retail. It's the only confirmed B2B "best of" program in the state's contest landscape; specific categories aren't itemized publicly.
SIBA's (Southern Indiana Builders Association) annual Parade of Homes People's Choice award, voted at sibaparadeofhomes.com/vote/, crowned Jagoe Homes the 2025 winner for its model home at 3075 Hyland Dr in Newburgh. No confirmed category list, vote cap, or close date accompanies that record; confirm specifics on the live site each cycle.
YourChoiceAwards South Bend runs a business readers-choice ballot at yourchoiceawards.com/southbend/, a separate platform from the city's other confirmed CommunityVotes program. Public records tie it to the same broader operating network, though no category list, vote cap, or close date is confirmed for this specific address.
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