38 contests with public online voting in Iowa — Athlete of the Week and more. Real, paced votes; honest guidance on each contest's rules.
Des Moines · Des Moines Register (Gannett / USA TODAY Network)
Free weekly fan poll at desmoinesregister.com, run by the Des Moines Register (Gannett / USA TODAY Network), honouring the top Central Iowa prep athlete each sports season. One vote per hour per device, no account needed. Covers CIML, Iowa Alliance Conference, Little Hawkeye, and metro-area schools.
Annual fan-vote award from High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive) at si.com/high-school/iowa naming Iowa's boys soccer Player of the Year by class. Candidates are published in a dedicated SI article; per-class winners are announced after the state tournament. Free vote, no account required.
Annual fan-vote award run by High School on SI at si.com/high-school/iowa naming the top boys basketball player in Iowa's Class 1A each season. Free public vote, no account required; the 2024-25 preseason ballot drew over 12,000 total votes.
Annual fan-vote recognition run by High School on SI at si.com/high-school/iowa for Iowa's Class 1A football division. A confirmed 2025 preseason ballot featured seven nominees; end-of-season voting has also run on the platform. Free public vote, no account required.
Annual High School on SI / SBLive award naming the top player in Iowa's IGHSAU Class 1A girls basketball — the smallest girls classification — with an editorial announcement after the March state tournament.
Annual fan-vote award run by High School on SI at si.com/high-school/iowa naming the top boys basketball player in Iowa's Class 2A each season. Free public vote, no account required; preseason and end-of-season cycles both confirmed active.
Annual fan-vote award run by High School on SI at si.com/high-school/iowa naming the top football player in Iowa's Class 2A each season. Free public vote, no account required; separate end-of-season and preseason cycles both confirmed.
Annual fan-vote recognition from High School on SI / SBLive for Iowa's IGHSAU Class 2A girls basketball, with a preseason ballot and an editorial award announced after the March state tournament at Wells Fargo Arena.
Annual public-vote Iowa Class 3A boys basketball recognition from High School on SI / SBLive, with preseason voting, midseason finalist coverage, and a March award cycle tied to the IHSAA winter season.
Annual fan-vote award run by High School on SI at si.com/high-school/iowa naming the top football player among Iowa's mid-enrollment schools. The 2024 winner, Coen Matson of Humboldt, also captured the overall Iowa Football Player of the Year with 64.71 percent of all-class votes.
Annual fan-vote award from High School on SI / SBLive naming the top girls basketball player in Iowa's IGHSAU Class 3A each season, with a preseason ballot and end-of-season editorial award after the March state tournament.
Annual High School on SI / SBLive Iowa boys basketball recognition for Class 4A players, with public preseason and finalist voting tied to the IHSAA winter season.
Annual end-of-season fan-vote award run by High School on SI at si.com/high-school/iowa recognizing the top football player from Iowa's mid-large enrollment schools. Free public poll, no login required, closes November 30.
Annual fan-vote award run by High School on SI at si.com/high-school/iowa naming the top girls basketball player in Iowa's IGHSAU Class 4A each season. Free public vote, no account required; both 2024-25 and 2025-26 cycles confirmed active.
Annual fan-vote award run by High School on SI at si.com/high-school/iowa honoring the top football player among Iowa's largest-enrollment schools. Free public poll, no account needed; closes November 30 each season.
Annual High School on SI / SBLive Iowa girls basketball award covering the IGHSAU Class 5A level, with fan finalist voting before the post-state tournament winner is announced.
Annual fan-vote award run by High School on SI at si.com/high-school/iowa for Iowa's Class A — the smallest eleven-player IHSAA division. Confirmed 2024 nominees include Brady Bixel and Carter Kunze, who also starred in the 2024 title game. Free public vote, no account required; poll closes November 30 at 11:59 p.m. PT.
Statewide Iowa (Class 1A programs) · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)
Annual fan poll from High School on SI naming the top football player among Iowa's Class 1A programs — a small-school tier of roughly 48 schools enrolling well under 200 students. A confirmed 2025 preseason ballot opened in August; a season-ending edition follows the playoffs each November, free and open with no account required.
Statewide Iowa (Class 2A programs) · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)
Annual fan poll from High School on SI naming the top football player among Iowa's Class 2A programs — the state's fourth-largest IHSAA enrollment tier, roughly 48 schools. A preseason ballot opens in August; a season-ending edition follows the playoffs and closes near November 30, free and open with no account required.
Statewide Iowa (Class 3A programs) · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)
Annual fan poll from High School on SI naming the top football player among Iowa's Class 3A programs — the state's third-largest enrollment tier, roughly 36 schools. A preseason ballot opens in August; a season-ending edition follows the playoffs and closes near November 30, free and open with no account required.
Statewide Iowa (Class 4A programs) · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)
Annual fan poll from High School on SI (formerly SBLive Sports) naming the top football player among Iowa's Class 4A programs — the state's second-largest enrollment tier, roughly 36 schools sitting just below the 5A cutoff. The ballot runs a preseason edition in August and a season-ending edition that closes around November 30, free to the public with no account required.
Statewide Iowa (Class A programs) · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / formerly SBLive)
Annual fan poll from High School on SI naming the top player among Iowa's Class A programs, the state's smallest eleven-player IHSAA tier and a separate division from the 8-Player class. A preseason ballot opens in August; the season-ending edition follows the November playoffs, closing near November 30, free and open with no account required.
Statewide Iowa · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)
Weekly statewide fan poll on High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive) recognising outstanding Iowa prep athletes from every IHSAA conference and classification — Cedar Rapids to Sioux City, Dubuque to Council Bluffs. Voting at si.com/high-school/iowa, free, no account. Closes Sunday 11:59 p.m. PT.
Statewide Iowa · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)
Annual class-by-class fan-vote award for Iowa prep boys basketball, run by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive) at si.com/high-school/iowa. Covers all four IHSAA boys basketball classes (1A–4A). Free public vote, no account required, closes at 11:59 p.m. PT on the published end date.
High School on SI runs Iowa's only statewide weekly fan-vote poll at si.com, closing every Sunday at 11:59 p.m. Pacific. During football season the ballot carries 4–14 football nominees alongside other fall sports — a multi-sport structure that shapes how campaigns win.
Statewide Iowa · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)
Annual statewide fan-vote award run by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive) at si.com/high-school/iowa, naming a Player of the Year in each IHSAA class for football, basketball, soccer, and other sports. Free public vote, no account required, closes at 11:59 p.m. PT on the final poll date.
Statewide Iowa · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)
Annual class-by-class fan-vote award for Iowa girls volleyball run by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive) at si.com/high-school/iowa. Covers all five IGHSAU classifications (1A–5A) in the fall season. Free public vote, no account required, closes at 11:59 p.m. PT on the published end date.
Statewide Iowa · iawrestle.com
Annual statewide award run by iawrestle.com naming a Dan Gable Mr. and Ms. Wrestler of the Year across Iowa boys and girls classes. Public fan voting runs two rounds each winter season at iawrestle.com — free, once per day per voter — and the fan ballot is one of thirteen weighted votes deciding the final winner. IHSAA / IGHSAU sanctioned.
Quad Cities (Davenport, Bettendorf, Clinton, Maquoketa) · KWQC-TV6 (NBC affiliate)
The weekly Quad Cities fan vote run by KWQC-TV6 (NBC) at kwqc.com, spotlighting standout Iowa and Illinois prep athletes from Davenport, Bettendorf, Clinton, and Maquoketa to the Illinois side of the river. Free public poll, no account required, closes Wednesday at noon.
The Des Moines Business Record's annual open reader survey across 75 B2B categories, from Best Bank to Best Company to Work For, with one straight ballot and no separate nomination round.
CITYVIEW's annual Des Moines readers-choice awards, run as a fill-in-the-blank write-in ballot at best.dmcityview.com rather than a dropdown of pre-loaded nominees, with no pay-to-play component tying placement to advertising spend. Voting runs September 1 through November 30 each year, and the 2026 cycle is confirmed active on the organizer's site.
YourChoiceAwards, a Gannett-affiliated readers-choice program, invites the Des Moines metro to nominate and then vote for local businesses at yourchoiceawards.com/desmoines/. Winners are honored at an awards gala and published in print, a mechanic that sets it apart from the metro's other readers-choice ballots.
Corridor Business Journal's B2B and consumer readers-choice ballot spanning Cedar Rapids and Iowa City, now two decades running, with open public nomination and voting across 49-53 categories each summer.
Quad City Times' confirmed readers-choice contest at qctimes.com/contests/best-of-the-quad-cities, covering the bistate Quad Cities metro on both the Iowa and Illinois banks of the Mississippi River, run under the paper's standard readers-choice ballot format.
Annual CommunityVotes readers-choice business awards for Cedar Rapids and Linn County, with open nominations, a public ballot, and category-based local business voting, covered locally by KHAK radio.
Annual CommunityVotes readers-choice business awards for Des Moines and Polk County, with open nominations, a public ballot, and category-based local business voting.
DSM People's Choice, a Des Moines, Iowa readers-choice program run at dsmpeopleschoice.com, operates independently of CITYVIEW's Best of Des Moines ballot. The confirmed public record does not include a published category list, vote cap, or fixed voting window, so businesses should check dsmpeopleschoice.com directly each cycle for current rules.
Sioux City Journal's annual Siouxland's Choice readers-choice awards run in two phases, nomination then voting, with winners published each year in the paper's February Weekender. The 2025 cycle drew 32,412 nominations and 357,332 votes from 8,624 participants across the Siouxland region.
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