Montingy For 92 9 The Ticket Athlete Of The Week: How Voting Works & How to Win

Who votes and who runs the 92.9 The Ticket Athlete of the Week

The audience for this ballot is the high school sports community around Ellsworth, Maine. WDEA, an AM radio station at 1370 on the dial, runs the program together with its sister station 92.9 The Ticket, which covers high school athletics for the same listening area. Each week the stations gather nominees from schools in Hancock and Washington County, and the listeners who follow those schools supply the votes. The ballot for the current cycle is titled Vote Montingy For 92.9 The Ticket Athlete of the Week, and it names an Ellsworth High School nominee among five high school athletes up for the weekly honor, with basketball listed among the sports in play.

The program carries a sponsor's name on air: it is announced as the WDEA AM 1370-Hammond Lumber Downeast High School Athlete of the Week. That is the same feature as the 92.9 The Ticket High School Athlete of the Week ballot, just described from the AM side of the station group. Nominations are directed to Chris Popper at WDEA, who collects the student's name, high school, sport and a short case for the nomination before the weekly deadline.

Hosting matters here. The vote runs on wdea.am, the station's own web address, not on a third-party polling service, so the form, the rules and the countdown all live in one place controlled by the station. The table below pulls together the fixed facts for this program.

The dated record: editions, windows and what the station leaves off the page

The ballot has a long history for a weekly feature. Edition years on file run 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026, with no edition listed for 2022. That gap makes the run seven confirmed years rather than eight, and it is the only break in a sequence that otherwise stretches from 2019 to the present cycle. The next expected edition falls in 2027 if the weekly pattern holds.

Each edition follows the same weekly rhythm. In one documented cycle, nominations were due by Sunday, September 13th, voting ran Monday, September 14th through Thursday, September 17th at 11:59 p.m., and the winner was announced on Friday, September 18th. That sequence, nomination deadline first, four voting days next, Friday announcement last, is the shape a supporter should expect from any week of the feature.

The current ballot carries its own close: voting ends Wednesday, December 12th at 11:59 p.m. What the station has not printed is a category roster for the ballot or any eligibility text beyond the daily voting rule; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The weekly nomination contact, Chris Popper, is the one channel the station names for questions about who qualifies in a given week.

How a supporter votes on the WDEA ballot today

The mechanic is deliberately simple, because the voting base is radio listeners rather than platform account holders. A supporter opens the ballot page on wdea.am, where the voting form sits directly in the page with no login step printed on it. The form lists the five nominated high school athletes for the week, each identified by name, school and sport. The supporter selects one and submits.

The one rule the page states plainly is the return limit: you can vote once every 24 hours. That means a single supporter who wants to back an Ellsworth nominee across a full four-day window can cast four votes, one per day, by coming back at roughly the same time each day. The countdown that matters is the close printed on the ballot, Wednesday, December 12th at 11:59 p.m. for the current cycle, after which the form stops accepting votes and the station moves to the Friday announcement.

Because the poll runs on the station's own site, there is no third-party platform between the supporter and the ballot. No account creation, no email verification step and no external polling service appear in the voting path. A supporter who reaches the page can act immediately, and a supporter who wants to repeat the action simply returns the next day. Everything a voter needs, the nominee list, the submit control and the deadline, is on the single ballot page.

How this ballot sits beside its Maine neighbours

WDEA's weekly honor is one of several high school athlete ballots covering Maine, and each answers to its own publisher. The Aroostook County Athlete of the Week serves the far northern county, while the Central Maine Athlete of the Week covers the middle of the state. Neither of those is a WDEA feature; they are separate programs with separate organizers, so a vote on one carries no weight toward another.

Season-wide ballots also exist. The fall season, spring season and winter season editions of the Maine High School Athlete of the Week divide the school year by sport calendar, and the Maine High School Boys Basketball Player of the Week narrows to a single sport. The WDEA ballot differs from all of these in scope: it is a weekly, station-run honor tied to one publisher's coverage area, Hancock and Washington County, rather than a statewide or season-long award.

What makes the WDEA ballot distinctive is the combination of a weekly rhythm, a named sponsor on air, Hammond Lumber, and hosting on the station's own domain. A supporter deciding where to spend attention should treat each program separately, because the deadlines, the nominee lists and the rules are set by different organizers.

Strengthening support for a nominee within the station's rules

Support for an Ellsworth nominee on this ballot is built from daily returns, because the only stated limit is one vote per supporter every 24 hours. A four-day voting window therefore rewards organized repetition: teammates, families and classmates who each vote on all four days give a nominee far more than a single-day push. Spreading the word through the school community, the team's group chats and the station's own social posts fits the way a radio feature is meant to work.

The station has not printed any text about outside help, vote software or purchased votes, so there is no published rule to quote on that subject. What is certain is the ballot's own structure: a free public form on wdea.am, a 24-hour return limit and a hard close at 11:59 p.m. on the final day. Any support effort that respects those three facts stays inside what the ballot describes. For tactics that transfer across station-run polls of this kind, read our votes guide, and for the wider question of paid support on public ballots, the award-votes page covers the general landscape without promising any particular outcome.