Daily Advertiser Girls Basketball Player of the Year: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Daily Advertiser's girls basketball award is and who runs it

This program is a public-vote award for Louisiana high school girls basketball. The organizer is The Daily Advertiser, a Lafayette newspaper published at theadvertiser.com, and the ballot runs on the Crowdsignal service at poll.fm. The voting address for the current edition is https://poll.fm/15202848, which carries the 2024-25 poll under a closed status.

In the sport vertical, this award honors individual players rather than teams. Nominees on the 2024-25 ballot were listed with a position and a school: guards, guard/forwards and centers from programs including JS Clark Leadership Academy, Northwest, North Vermilion and Southside. Communities tied to those option schools include Lafayette, Abbeville, New Iberia, Opelousas and Church Point, all in Louisiana.

The table below gathers the identifying facts a reader needs when quoting this program.

Because the ballot names high school players, this page refers to the field by school, position and season and does not print individual athlete names anywhere.

The dated history of this player of the year vote

The dated history here is short and specific. The 2023 and 2025 cycles are the edition years on file. The 2025 ballot carried the season label 2024-25 Girls Basketball Player of the Year, its voting window fell in March, and the poll now shows a closed status at poll.fm/15202848. The 2026 cycle is the expected return, though the paper has not printed a calendar for future cycles on the ballot page.

The 2024-25 poll's final standings show the leading nominee finishing at 40 percent of 22,308 votes. That figure is the only published number attached to the ballot.

Several facts are not published. The Daily Advertiser has not printed the day the vote opens or the day it closes, so confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The ballot page also publishes no category list; the player of the year honor is the only one printed there, and no text on repeat voting, eligibility or how a nominee qualifies appears alongside the poll.

How a supporter votes in the Daily Advertiser's poll

The mechanic here is a plain public poll hosted by Crowdsignal, the service behind poll.fm. The first move is opening the ballot at https://poll.fm/15202848, reading the list of nominees, each shown with a position and a school, selecting the player to back, and submitting the choice. The ballot page describes no login step, and The Daily Advertiser publishes no rule on how often the same supporter may vote during the March window.

Because the 2024-25 poll is closed, that address no longer accepts votes. When The Daily Advertiser opens the next edition, the live ballot replaces the closed page and the same steps apply, so the routine a supporter learns this season carries over.

Supporters who arrive after a poll closes will see the final standings rather than a live form. That standings view is still useful: it shows where each school's nominee finished, which is how the outcome of the 2024-25 vote remains visible today. For a seasonal award with a compact window, the practical takeaway is that the ballot rewards attention early, since a supporter who discovers the vote after it closes has no way to affect the result.

How this ballot sits beside its Louisiana neighbours

This award is unusual among Louisiana public-vote ballots in that it honors a season-long performer rather than a weekly one. The state's other ballots are weekly honors: the Baton Rouge weekly athlete vote, the statewide football player of the week, the New Orleans Area weekly athlete ballot, the New Orleans prep football vote, the Shreveport Times weekly ballot and the WAFB Sportsline player vote.

Publishers differ as well. WAFB Sportsline is a television program's ballot, while this award belongs to The Daily Advertiser's newsroom in Lafayette. The sport differs too: girls basketball here, football or all-sport weekly honors there. A reader comparing ballots across the state can follow those links to see how each publisher frames its own vote.

What stays constant is the mechanic: a public poll on Crowdsignal where the audience rather than a panel decides the outcome. That makes supporter turnout the deciding factor in each of these Louisiana ballots, and it is why a seasonal award like this one concentrates so much activity into its short voting window.

Strengthening support in a short seasonal window

Support in this program concentrates into a compact March window, so timing matters more than in a weekly ballot that resets every few days. Pass the poll.fm address straight to the player's school community, family groups and team supporters as soon as The Daily Advertiser opens the vote, because a seasonal ballot leaves little room to recover from a late start.

The Daily Advertiser publishes no stated rule on outside help for this award, which makes restraint the sensible default: a push that reads as genuine community backing is the shape this ballot is built to measure. For tactics that work across public-vote ballots, see how to get more votes online.