Kentucky Online Voting Contests

Courier Journal Athlete of the Week

Louisville · The Courier Journal (Gannett / USA TODAY Network)

Free weekly fan poll at courier-journal.com recognising standout Louisville-metro prep athletes across every KHSAA sports season. Published by The Courier Journal (Gannett / USA TODAY Network) via SecondStreet; one vote per hour per device, no account required, closes Thursday or Friday — a tighter window than Kentucky's statewide SI poll, which runs to Sunday with unlimited votes.

Courier Journal Louisville Boys Athlete of the Week

Louisville · The Courier Journal (Gannett / USA Today Network)

The Courier Journal's (Gannett / USA Today Network) Louisville-metro weekly fan vote for the best boys prep performance across all sports. Closes Thursday at 6:00 p.m. — earlier and shorter than the statewide SBLive/SI polls — and covers every sport from football to tennis in the Jefferson County metro area. Nomination contact is Prince James Story at [email protected].

Courier Journal Louisville Girls Athlete of the Week

Louisville · The Courier Journal

The Courier Journal's weekly fan vote honoring the top female prep athlete in the Louisville metro across every sport. The ballot closes Thursday at 6 p.m. — earlier than most statewide polls — and the winner is announced the following morning, giving Louisville-area campaigns a compressed, three-to-four-day window to move.

Gridiron Glory Performance of the Week

A weekly fan vote from WPSD Local 6, the NBC affiliate in Paducah, choosing the standout high school football performance from the Jackson Purchase region of western Kentucky each week of the season. WPSD frames the result as a viewer pick, not a newsroom pick, distinct from the station's separate Biokinetics Athlete of the Week segment.

Kentucky High School Athlete of the Week

Statewide Kentucky · 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 KHSAA member school across all three Kentucky prep sports seasons. Voting is unlimited, free, and open through Sunday 11:59 p.m.

Kentucky High School Baseball Player of the Year

Statewide Kentucky · Sports Illustrated / SBLive (High School on SI); Kentucky High School Athletic Association (KHSAA)

Annual statewide fan vote from Sports Illustrated's High School on SI hub (SBLive) at si.com/high-school/kentucky, decided after the KHSAA spring baseball season ends and separate from the KHSAA's own 2026 State Tournament All-Tournament Team and postseason awards. Free, no account required; no vote cap is currently published for this ballot.

Kentucky High School Boys Basketball Player of the Year

Statewide Kentucky · SBLive Sports / High School on SI (Sports Illustrated)

Annual fan vote run by SBLive Sports / High School on SI at si.com/high-school/kentucky/boys-basketball, naming a Kentucky Boys Basketball Player of the Year after the KHSAA winter season across all six classifications. It runs separately from Kentucky Mr. Basketball's closed media panel and from SBLive's all-sport, weekly, and Player of the Year ballots.

Kentucky High School Football Player of the Week

The SBLive / High School on SI statewide fan vote for the best Kentucky prep football performance each week. Editors nominate 8–10 standouts, anyone can vote with no account, and the ballot closes Sunday at 11:59 p.m. — a full day earlier than the SI regional polls that run in Texas.

Kentucky High School Football Player of the Year

Statewide Kentucky · Sports Illustrated / SBLive (High School on SI); Kentucky Football Coaches Association (KFCA)

Annual statewide fan-vote award from Sports Illustrated's High School on SI hub (SBLive) at si.com/high-school/kentucky, decided after the KHSAA football season ends and separate from the Kentucky Football Coaches Association's district-level, class-based honors. The 2024 statewide vote closed 65.3% to the winning nominee out of 19,539 votes cast — free, no account required.

Kentucky High School Girls Basketball Player of the Year

Statewide Kentucky · SBLive Sports / High School on SI (Sports Illustrated)

Annual fan vote run by SBLive Sports / High School on SI at si.com/high-school/kentucky/girls-basketball, naming a Kentucky Girls Basketball Player of the Year after the KHSAA winter season. A live Top 25 rankings feature, confirmed active January 2026, feeds the nominee pool, apart from the KVCA Girls Player of the Year honor.

Kentucky High School Player of the Year

Statewide Kentucky · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)

Season-end fan-vote Player of the Year recognition run by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive) at si.com/high-school/kentucky, covering all KHSAA-sanctioned sports and classifications statewide. No per-vote cap; polls close at 11:59 p.m. on the stated deadline. Annual, sport-specific.

Kentucky High School Softball Player of the Year

Statewide Kentucky · Sports Illustrated / SBLive (High School on SI)

Annual statewide fan vote from Sports Illustrated's High School on SI hub (SBLive) at si.com/high-school/kentucky/softball, decided once the KHSAA spring softball season ends. South Warren's softball program was ranked No. 1 in the nation for the 2025 season. Free to vote; no account required; no vote cap is currently published.

WYMT Don Franklin Athlete of the Week

Hazard-based WYMT runs this one alone. The Don Franklin Athlete of the Week pulls nominees from Bell, Floyd, Johnson, Knott, Letcher, Perry, and Pike County schools, year-round, across every KHSAA sport season rather than one.

Best in Kentucky

Annual statewide readers-choice awards from Kentucky Living magazine (Kentucky Association of Electric Cooperatives), with open nominations followed by public voting each May at KentuckyLiving.com.

Best of Lexington KY

Best of Lexington KY's annual spring readers-choice vote at bestoflexingtonkentucky.com, spanning professional categories such as dentist, doctor, lawyer, and realtor alongside an equestrian boarding category tied to the Bluegrass region's horse farms. A separate program, Chevy Chaser Magazine's "Best of Lex," published its own results in April 2025.

Best of Louisville

Louisville Magazine's annual readers-choice vote for Louisville-metro businesses and personalities — 35th edition in 2025 — running an open nomination round followed by public voting on a broad, multi-category ballot at loumag.secondstreetapp.com.

Best of NKY

NKY Magazine's readers-choice ballot for Boone, Kenton, Campbell, and Grant counties, 194 categories deep, running on the SecondStreet voting platform with nominations in January and public voting in spring.

BroadwayWorld Louisville Awards

BroadwayWorld's annual regional theater fan vote for the Louisville area, cast at broadwayworld.com/louisville/voteregion.cfm. GREASE led Best Musical in 2025, with Woodford Theatre and Ramsey Theatre Company at SKYPAC topping that year's results across the ballot.

CommunityVotes Lexington-Fayette

CommunityVotes Lexington-Fayette's annual readers-choice business ballot at lexingtonfayette.communityvotes.com, with nominations open August through December and the 2025 cycle confirmed active. No category list, vote cap, or close date beyond that window is published; confirm current details on the live site each cycle.

LEO Weekly Readers' Choice

LEO Weekly's Readers' Choice awards Louisville-area businesses through a two-round ballot: readers submit nominations first, then the top 10 finalists in each category move to a final public vote at vote.leoweekly.com, with winners recognized at the program's Oct. 23 celebration party each year.

Louisville Community Choice Awards

The Courier Journal (Gannett) runs Louisville Community Choice Awards on the YourChoiceAwards platform at yourchoiceawards.com/louisville/, a separate program from Louisville Magazine's long-running Best of Louisville. The public nominates and votes for local businesses there, with the 2025 cycle confirmed active and other cycle details left to the live page.

Paducah Sun Readers' Choice Awards

The Paducah Sun's annual Readers' Choice Awards, a nominate-then-vote SecondStreet ballot covering Retail, Food, Service, Health, and Home categories across the Jackson Purchase region of western Kentucky.