Who should be The Star Press IU Health Girls Basketball Player of the Year: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Star Press IU Health Player of the Year ballot is

This program is a public fan vote. Each winter The Star Press, joined by IU Health in the title, puts one question to readers: which Indiana high school girls basketball athlete deserves the player of the year honour. The ballot runs on Crowdsignal, the company powering poll.fm, at a single address, poll 15108910, and that one page holds the entire contest.

The shape is the simplest kind of award ballot. One question, one list of nominees, one submission. The 2024-25 edition named players from schools across east central Indiana, including Muncie Central, Wapahani, Delta, Wes-Del, Daleville, Monroe Central, Cowan, New Castle and Union (Modoc), each nominee listed by school and class year. A new edition's full nominee list appears only on the live ballot when the organizer posts it.

Because the title pairs a newspaper with a health system, the award reads as publisher-sponsored recognition rather than a ranking body's selection. The vote is the mechanism, and the fan total decides the outcome. Readers comparing Indiana fan ballots will find this is the girls basketball entry in that family, sitting beside football and all-sport programs from other publishers listed later on this page.

The dated story of this Indiana girls basketball poll

2024 and 2025 are the two edition years confirmed for this program. The 2025 ballot carried the 2024-25 season in its title and is labelled closed on the ballot page, which makes the program annual so far, with the vote landing in February at the end of the Indiana girls basketball season. Nothing earlier than 2024 has been confirmed.

The February timing is the only date signal the organizer gives. Neither edition has printed the day voting opened or the day it closed, and no date for the 2026 edition has been posted yet. A supporter planning around this award should treat the month as the anchor and the specific days as unknowns.

Several other things stay off the ballot page. There is no printed limit on repeat submissions, no eligibility statement, and no text explaining how the nominee list is assembled, and no promotion schedule for platform rounds exists for this market. Which categories the next ballot will carry, and whether a single person may submit more than once, are things to confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

The closed status of the 2024-25 poll matters in practice. Until a new ballot is posted at the same poll.fm address or announced by The Star Press, no vote can be cast for any nominee, however the page is reached.

How a supporter votes on the poll.fm ballot

The mechanic is a single-question Crowdsignal poll. A supporter opens the ballot address, reads the nominee list, ticks the box beside one player, and submits the form on the same page. No account, no login and no payment appear anywhere in the ballot's published shape, and the organizer has not attached a registration step to the vote.

Today that sequence starts with the closed 2024-25 ballot. Opening poll.fm/15108910 shows the poll closed, so the submission step applies only when the organizer posts the next edition. When a new ballot appears, usually in February if past years hold, the same three actions apply: open the page, pick a nominee, submit. The nominee list is presented flat, with each player named by school and class, so anyone looking for a particular athlete should scan the full list before choosing.

Two practical notes follow from the published shape. First, repeat-vote behaviour is controlled by the platform and is not described on the organizer's page, so a fan who hopes to submit again on another day can only test that on the live ballot; the organizer has never printed a daily-vote rule. Second, the result is whatever the poll shows when the organizer closes it, and any announcement of the winner is published by The Star Press rather than on the polling platform.

How this ballot sits among Indiana's fan-vote awards

Indiana runs a busy family of publisher-backed fan ballots, and this one occupies a specific corner of it. It is the girls-side, year-end honour tied to The Star Press and IU Health, with nominees drawn from high schools around Muncie and the surrounding counties, including Wapahani, Delta, Daleville, Monroe Central and New Castle. Its closest neighbours answer different questions.

The boys basketball counterpart in the same state family is the Indiana SI Boys Basketball Player of the Year, a separate program with its own organizer and ballot. Football has several entries: the Evansville Courier & Press Football Player of the Year, the statewide Indiana High School Football Player of the Week, and the class-divided Indiana SI Football 3A Player of the Year and 4A Player of the Year. A weekly all-sport option is the Bloomington Herald-Times Athlete of the Week.

What distinguishes this ballot within that set is its focus: one sport played by girls, a season-closing honour instead of a weekly one, and one named local sponsor pairing. Support earned on any of the other ballots counts for nothing here, because each program runs its own poll, its own slate of nominees and its own window.

Strengthening support for a nominee on this ballot

Support on this program comes down to one action repeated by many people while the February poll is open. Because this ballot asks one question over a flat nominee list, a nominee's camp should treat the poll.fm link itself as the message: send the exact ballot address, name the nominee to look for, and ask for the submission while the window is live. The 2024-25 result showed a poll of this shape can swing dramatically, so reaching even a modest share of a school's community changes any nominee's standing.

The organizer's pages print no statement about outside help, automated voting or coordination, so a supporter cannot rely on a published rule either way. That silence cuts in both directions, and the safe reading is that whatever the platform itself limits applies. Ideas that need no rule change at all are collected in our votes guide, from timing reminders to class-wide pushes. Anyone weighing purchased support should first read the organizer's situation and the legal and rules overview, since nothing connected to this ballot promises an outcome.