Indiana Online Voting Contests

Bloomington Herald-Times Athlete of the Week

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 Courier & Press Athlete of the Week

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 Courier & Press Football Player of the Year

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.

Indiana High School Athlete of the Week

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.

Indiana High School Baseball Player of the Year

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.

Indiana High School Football Player of the Week

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.

Indiana High School Player of the Year

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.

Indiana SI Football 3A Player of the Year

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.

Indiana SI Football 4A Player of the Year

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.

Indiana SI Football 5A Player of the Year

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.

Indiana SI Football 6A Player of the Year

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.

Indiana SI Football Player of the Year

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.

IndyStar Athlete of the Week

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.

IndyStar Indiana Girls Basketball Player of the Week

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.

Northeast Indiana Boys Basketball FAN CHOICE Performance of the Week

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 Football Performance of the Week

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.

Best of Elkhart County

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.

Best of the Region (NWI Times)

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.

Best Things — Indianapolis Community's Choice Awards

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 Evansville Best Of

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 Best Of

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 Best Of

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.

Fort Wayne Journal Gazette Readers' Choice

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.

Indianapolis Monthly Readers' Choice

Indianapolis Monthly's annual reader ballot spanning roughly 150 categories across restaurants, services, shopping, and professionals, run online at vote.indianapolismonthly.com.

NW Indiana Business Best of Business

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.