For This Colona Coach To Win Most Valuable Coach: How Voting Works & How to Win

Who votes and why this Colona coach campaign exists

The campaign that B100 titles "For This Colona Coach To Win Most Valuable Coach" is a school-first drive, and the station is explicit about who it is asking: neighbors. KBEA-FM's page opens with the line "We can help our neighbor score a major prize for Colona Grade School!", which frames the vote as a community effort rather than a promotion the station runs for its own listenership alone. The subject is coach Malmstrom of Colona Grade School, and the reward is structured so the school, not the coach personally, collects the money.

KBEA-FM is a radio station licensed in Iowa whose brand, B100, serves the Quad Cities market on both the Iowa and Illinois sides of the river. That geography explains the pairing in the page name: Colona is an Illinois-side town, while the station that hosts the ballot and its audience sit under an Iowa license. The ballot runs on b100quadcities.com itself, with no third-party polling platform between the supporter and the vote.

The campaign sits in the sport-and-coaching award space, but unlike the station's listener contests on the same site, such as the QC Teacher of the Week promotions listed in B100's trending rail, this one channels its result into a fixed school donation. The table below gathers the identifying facts.

The dated record for the Most Valuable Coach race

The confirmed editions of this B100 campaign fall in 2018 and 2019, then again from 2023 through 2026, a run with a gap across the early 2020s before the station brought the coach race back. Each edition has been anchored to the fall, and the one hard date inside the cycle is the finalists announcement: KBEA-FM states that "the finalists with the most votes will be announced October 1st." That announcement is the pivot of the whole campaign, because it separates the coaches whose schools have earned the guaranteed stage from those who miss it.

The prize ladder is published in the station's campaign text. If Malmstrom makes the finalist group, Colona Grade School will receive $5,000. The final three winners receive larger donations, with the leading tier at $50,000 and the next tier at $20,000, so the difference between making the announcement and missing it is the difference between a secured five-figure school donation and nothing.

What the station does not publish in advance is the day-by-day shape of the window. KBEA-FM has not printed the exact opening and closing dates for the Most Valuable Coach voting round, nor any nomination-stage dates ahead of it; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The same applies to whether the October timing shifts in any future edition, which only the station's own page settles.

How a supporter votes for the Colona coach today

The mechanic is deliberately simple, because the station wants the widest possible slice of its listener base participating. A supporter opens the dedicated page for this Colona coach at b100quadcities.com/vote-for-this-colona-coach-to-win-most-valuable-coach/ and presses the vote control on the Most Valuable Coach entry. KBEA-FM runs the ballot itself on B100's web page, so the vote is submitted directly to the station rather than through an outside polling service, and the campaign message about helping Colona Grade School sits on the same page as the vote control.

Because the host is the station itself, the practical questions a supporter might have about the Colona coach ballot, such as whether the page allows repeat voting in a sitting or asks for an email before counting a vote, are answered only by the page at the moment of voting. KBEA-FM has printed no rule limiting how often one supporter may vote for the Colona entry, and no eligibility statement for this coach race either, in the text held for its campaign page. A supporter who wants the vote to count should simply follow whatever instruction the ballot shows that day instead of assuming a pattern from other station contests.

After voting, the only dated checkpoint is the October 1st finalists announcement, which the station uses to direct the $5,000 donation to Colona Grade School if the coach's total is high enough. Support built before that announcement is what the tally measures.

How this ballot sits beside Iowa's other vote programs

This coach race is unusual among the Iowa public-vote pages in that its beneficiary is a school rather than a player title. The neighboring Iowa programs tracked alongside it are all athlete honors: the Iowa Boys Soccer Player of the Year, the Iowa Class 1A Boys Basketball Player of the Year, the Iowa Class 1A Football Player of the Year, the Iowa Class 1A Girls Basketball Player of the Year, the Iowa Class 2A Boys Basketball Player of the Year and the Iowa Class 2A Football Player of the Year.

The differences run deeper than the trophy. Those player-of-the-year ballots honor an individual athlete in a named sport and classification, while the B100 Most Valuable Coach race honors a coaching figure and routes the outcome into a donation for Colona Grade School. Those programs draw on statewide high-school fan bases; this one draws on a station audience and asks neighbors in the Quad Cities, on both the Iowa and Illinois sides, to rally around a specific school community.

The hosts differ too. Each of the Iowa player honors answers to its own publisher and rules, whereas the Colona coach ballot sits on KBEA-FM's B100 web page with the station's announcement calendar attached. For a supporter, that means the October 1st date and the published donation tiers are the fixed points here, while the player-of-the-year pages carry their own timing and should be read on their own terms. Anyone comparing campaigns should treat this page and its siblings as separate programs with separate rulebooks, not editions of a single state award.

Strengthening support for the Colona coach entry

The most effective push for this ballot works the channel the station itself named. KBEA-FM frames the campaign as neighbors helping Colona Grade School, so the natural base is the school's own families, staff, alumni and the Colona community groups that already follow the school. A share that explains the concrete stakes, a $5,000 donation if the coach reaches the October 1st finalist list, gives people a reason to vote rather than merely to like a post.

Timing matters more than volume on a station-hosted page, because the tally that decides the finalists is the one standing when KBEA-FM announces results. Ask supporters to vote soon after they see the request, and be upfront that the station's page governs how often a person may vote, since B100 has printed no repeat-vote rule for this coach race. For tactics suited to a public vote like this one, see how to get more votes online, and weigh any outside help against the station's own contest terms before committing to it.