Kansas Online Voting Contests

Catchy Awards Kansas High School Athletics

The annual Catch It Kansas fan vote from KWCH 12 (Scripps) honoring Kansas high school sports across roughly 30 categories statewide — Best Player, Best Team, Best Moment, and Best Coach across KSHSAA classifications. About 3,000 fans cast ballots each edition at catchitkansas.com, with winners revealed at a June broadcast ceremony.

DiRenna Awards Kansas City Basketball Player of the Year

Kansas City metro (Kansas side) · KSHB 41 (Scripps) / Kansas City area media

The DiRenna Awards name the Kansas City metro's boys' and girls' basketball Player of the Year through public fan voting, run by KSHB 41 (Scripps) and covering both the Kansas and Missouri sides of the metro. The award has run annually since 1954, making it one of the longest-running high school basketball honors in the region, and unlike the statewide Kansas Athlete of the Week poll, it recognizes basketball only.

ESPN Wichita High School Athlete of the Week

Wichita · ESPN Wichita 92.3 (espnwichita.com)

Weekly fan-vote recognition from ESPN Wichita 92.3, honoring one standout high school performance from schools across the Wichita radio market each week. The ballot posts directly at espnwichita.com/athleteoftheweek — the station's own page, not the SBLive or Sports Illustrated network several other Kansas polls use. No account required to vote.

Greater Wichita Sports Banquet Athlete of the Year

Greater Wichita metro, Kansas · Wichita Sports Commission

The Wichita Sports Commission selects winners of its annual Greater Wichita Sports Banquet awards through a media panel, not a public fan vote. Eight categories span high school, college, and professional athletes and coaches. Finalists become public knowledge ahead of the June ceremony, driving nomination interest rather than vote totals.

Kansas High School Athlete of the Week

Statewide Kansas · KSHB 41 / Hy-Vee (Scripps Media NBC affiliate)

Free weekly Kansas prep sports award presented by Hy-Vee and KSHB 41 (Scripps Media NBC affiliate, Kansas City). KSHB sports staff selects nominees from KSHSAA-member schools across all six classifications; fans vote free online at kshb.com with no account required. Runs year-round through every KSHSAA season.

Topeka Capital-Journal Athlete of the Week

Topeka · Topeka Capital-Journal (Gannett)

Weekly free fan vote run by the Topeka Capital-Journal (Gannett/USA Today Network) covering Topeka-area KSHSAA schools across every sport and season. Nominations go to [email protected]; the ballot runs on cjonline.com and closes Thursday at noon. No account or sign-up is needed to cast a vote.

Topeka Capital-Journal High School Athlete of the Week

Topeka · Topeka Capital-Journal / Gannett

The Topeka Capital-Journal's weekly multi-sport fan vote covering the Topeka metro area — any KSHSAA sport, any season, closes midday Thursday or Friday depending on the week. Coaches and parents submit to reporter Liam Keating; readers vote free via an embedded Gannett poll widget at cjonline.com.

WIBW Scholar Athlete of the Week

Topeka & northeast Kansas (WIBW viewing area) · WIBW-TV (Topeka CBS affiliate, Gray Television)

Annual recognition series from WIBW-TV, Topeka's CBS affiliate, sponsored by Kaw Valley Bank and Cable Dahmer. WIBW's sports desk names one northeast Kansas student each week for combined academic and athletic achievement. Selection is editorial, not a public fan-vote ballot: there is no cap, tally, or leaderboard published for this program.

Wichita ESPYs Athlete of the Year

Wichita metro, Kansas · ESPN Wichita 92.3 / 810 WHB-AM

ESPN Wichita 92.3 and 810 WHB-AM run the annual Honorary ESPYs fan vote each June, covering roughly eight to ten categories — high school, small college, and professional athletes across the Wichita metro. The public votes at 810whb.com; no purchase or account is required to cast a ballot.

Best of Johnson County

The Johnson County Post's open readers-choice ballot, spanning 200+ categories with a $500 voter incentive drawing, covering Overland Park, Olathe, Shawnee, and Lenexa on the Kansas side of the Kansas City metro.

Best of KC (Kansas City Magazine)

Kansas City Magazine's annual Best of KC readers-choice program, with nominations typically opening around January and a public community vote running near March, including a category set specific to Johnson County, Kansas alongside the magazine's broader metro-wide ballot.

Best of Lawrence

The Lawrence Journal-World / Sunflower Publishing readers-choice awards, a nominate-then-vote ballot that drew 89,000+ nominations and 369,000+ votes in 2025, with winners printed in a standalone Best of Lawrence magazine.

Best of Wichita

The Wichita Eagle's annual readers-choice awards, a nominate-then-vote ballot spanning 248 categories, with 634,000+ votes cast in the 2025 edition and winners printed in a dedicated Eagle special section.

CommunityVotes Kansas City

CommunityVotes Kansas City's own business readers-choice ballot at kansascity.communityvotes.com, run separately from Kansas City Magazine's Best of KC and the Johnson County Post's Best of Johnson County. Businesses nominate, then the public votes once the ballot opens, with no confirmed category list or vote cap published for this specific market yet.

CommunityVotes Overland Park

CommunityVotes Overland Park's own business readers-choice ballot at overlandpark.communityvotes.com, run separately from the Kansas City-wide CommunityVotes program and from Best of Johnson County and Best of KC, the two other ballots already covering the same suburb. No confirmed category list or vote cap is published for Overland Park specifically.

CommunityVotes Topeka

CommunityVotes Topeka is a separate readers-choice business ballot at topeka.communityvotes.com, run by the CommunityVotes network rather than the Topeka Capital-Journal's Gannett-run Community's Choice Awards. Same city, different organizer, different platform, and a nomination step that has nothing to do with the Capital-Journal's five-tier results.

Emporia Gazette Readers' Choice Awards

Annual Emporia Gazette Readers' Choice Awards for businesses across Lyon, Chase, Morris, Greenwood, Osage, and Coffey counties, with public voting at bestofemporia.com and results printed in the Gazette each summer.

Topeka Community's Choice Awards

Two separate Topeka readers-choice programs share a "Community's Choice" name each year: the Topeka Capital-Journal's Gannett-run ballot, which sorts winners into five tiers from Platinum to Top Pick, and the unrelated CommunityVotes Topeka business ballot, run by a different organizer with its own site and its own schedule.