MileSplit LA Girls' Performer of the Week: How Voting Works & How to Win

What is the MileSplit LA Girls' Performer of the Week poll?

MileSplit Louisiana (MileSplit LA) runs the Girls' Performer of the Week series, a recurring fan ballot that asks readers to pick the standout female performer from the week of Louisiana high school competition that just concluded. The organizer announced the opening ballot of the 2026 season plainly: "Week No. 1 for Louisiana high school cross country is in the books and it's time for our first MileSplit LA Girls' Performer Of The Week poll." That announcement ties the series to Louisiana high school cross country, and the ballot itself is served by Crowdsignal at its poll.fm web address.

The voting address currently served for the program is https://poll.fm/17476431, and that particular poll now carries a Poll Closed label with final tallies shown beside each option. Among Louisiana's fan ballots this one belongs to the best-of tradition: readers hand out the honor themselves instead of leaving the call to a seeded bracket or a judging panel.

The fixed details at a glance

Which editions are confirmed and when does voting fall?

Three seasons of ballots stand behind the program: 2024, 2025 and 2026. Ballot dating across those seasons clusters in two stretches of the school calendar, September through November and January through May, which is why the program's voting phase is described as running between September and May. Within a season the rhythm is weekly, with each week of competition producing its own girls' performer ballot, exactly as the organizer's Week No. 1 announcement for September 2026 shows.

Season calendar shape

The most recent ballot served at the program's voting address, poll 17476431, has closed, and its final tallies remain on display:

Beyond that closed ballot, several operational details have never been printed. Neither the ballot page nor the organizer's announcement sets an opening or closing date for any week's voting; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The ballot likewise presents no category roster beyond the girls' performer question itself, and Crowdsignal's promotion listings carry no round schedule for this Louisiana market.

How do you actually cast a vote?

The mechanic is a direct public choice. The ballot lists the week's girls' performer nominees, each tagged with her school, and a supporter marks the preferred option and submits the form. No account creation step appears on the ballot page, and neither a ceiling on repeat votes nor a rule on who may take part is written anywhere on the girls' performer ballot.

Closed behavior matters as much as live behavior for a weekly series. Once a week's poll ends, the page keeps the options visible and attaches each option's final percentage and vote count, which is precisely how the closed poll at the program's voting address behaves today. A supporter arriving late to a week therefore sees the result rather than a dead page.

To find the current week's ballot, start from the program's voting URL and follow MileSplit Louisiana's announcements as each new week's poll goes up. Because the series turns over weekly, the nominees, the schools represented and the competitive field all change from ballot to ballot, so the slate you saw last week tells you little about the slate in front of you now.

How does this poll compare with Louisiana's other fan-vote programs?

Louisiana carries several community best-of ballots alongside this one. The Alexandria Community's Choice Awards, the Bayou's Best Community's Choice Awards serving Houma, Best of Baton Rouge, Best of SWLA, Gambit's Best of New Orleans and the 2025 Family Favorites ballot all ask readers to crown favorites across broad slates of local businesses and services.

This program runs narrower and faster. Where a community choice ballot gathers nominations across dozens of categories and stays open for an extended round, the MileSplit LA girls' ballot presents a short nominee slate built from a single week of high school competition and resolves within that week. The audience differs too: school communities, teammates and families drive the vote here, while the community ballots lean on a general local readership.

The timing burden on a nominee's supporters differs as well. A community choice campaign can build over months; a performer of the week campaign has days. That difference shapes everything about how support is organized, from when the ballot link gets shared to how quickly a school's network responds after the new poll appears.

How can supporters strengthen a nominee's weekly total?

A fresh ballot follows each week of competition, so support has to gather quickly once the new poll is up. The moves available are the plain ones: share the ballot link with classmates, teammates and family as soon as the week's poll appears, and remind people before the poll closes, since the winning margin on past ballots has separated sharply after the tally froze.

MileSplit Louisiana prints no guidance on the ballot about outside campaigning, voting software or purchased support, so a campaign that stays inside the ballot's own published rules is the safe assumption. For a broader playbook on rallying genuine support, see how to get more votes online, and the award votes reference describes how paid support works on awards-style ballots generally. No outcome in a weekly poll is guaranteed by any method, bought or otherwise; the tally speaks for itself when the week ends.