Brockton Enterprise Girls Volleyball Preseason Player of the Year: How Voting Works & How to Win

A publisher fan vote behind the Brockton Enterprise's preseason volleyball coverage

The Brockton Enterprise Girls Volleyball Preseason Player of the Year is a readers' choice award run by the Brockton Enterprise, the daily newspaper serving Brockton, Massachusetts. It belongs to the preseason layer of the newsroom's volleyball coverage: before league play begins, the sports staff places a slate of girls volleyball nominees on a ballot and hands the choice to readers.

The voting form itself is carried by Crowdsignal (poll.fm), a polling platform that many regional publishers run for athlete and player polls. The live ballot for this program sits at https://poll.fm/15986007, and the poll is identified there by number 15986007. Crowdsignal provides the form, tracks the tally and displays results; editorial decisions about who is nominated and when the window opens belong to the Enterprise.

The program is a sport vertical award in the best-of style: a single honor, chosen by readers rather than by a panel of judges. Its audience is the readership the Enterprise already serves, which stretches across Brockton and the surrounding towns whose schools appear on the ballot, with Abington and Hanson among the communities represented in the nominee pool.

Because the Enterprise is a newsroom first and a poll operator second, the program exists inside its coverage rather than as a standalone event. Nominees are announced through the paper's sports channels, the poll runs alongside that coverage, and the result feeds back into the preseason narrative the newsroom builds for the volleyball season.

What is and is not published about this ballot

The dated facts for this program are few but concrete. Two edition years are documented: 2023 and 2025. That pair is the basis for calling the program annual in this reference, and it anchors everything else that can be said about timing. The 2025 edition's voting activity fell in September, which fits the preseason framing of the award, and 2026 is the expected next cycle.

Beyond that, the organizer has left several practical details unpublished. The exact day the poll opens and the day it closes is not carried in any dated form here; the ballot itself is where a live window appears. The publisher has also not printed a rules page for this vote, which means the per-supporter voting limit, any daily return allowance and nominee eligibility terms are unknown for this program and must come from the ballot itself.

The same applies to the shape of the ballot across cycles. The 2025 nominee list is visible on the live poll, but whether the Enterprise keeps the same number of nominees, the same school mix or the same award structure every September is not stated anywhere by the organizer. A reader planning around the 2026 edition should treat the 2025 ballot as a guide to format only, not as a promise of what the next list will contain.

What this means in practice is straightforward. Anyone who wants to follow the 2026 edition should start from the Enterprise's sports coverage as the volleyball preseason approaches, then move to the poll.fm page itself once the new ballot is posted. The window, the nominee slate and the closing announcement all surface there first, and nothing published here substitutes for the live page during a running cycle.

How a supporter casts a vote on the live ballot

Casting a ballot here is quick work. A supporter opens the Crowdsignal page, reads the nominee list, selects one player and submits. Forms of this type on poll.fm present the nominees as a radio-button list under the poll title, with a submit control at the foot of the form. After submission the platform generally shows the running tally, which is why these polls are so shareable mid-window.

The 2025 ballot lists girls volleyball players with their class year and school or town, spanning Brockton, Abington, Hanson and neighboring communities in the Enterprise's coverage area. The full current list changes with each edition, so the names that matter are the ones printed on the live page during the running window, not any earlier slate.

Three practical notes follow from the format. First, because the organizer has published no written voting rules for this poll, nobody can point to a published allowance for repeat voting either way, and the safe assumption is that the ballot's own behavior defines the limit. Second, the poll page is mobile-friendly, which matters because most of the sharing for a high school honor happens through phones and group chats. Third, the window is short. A September preseason poll lives or dies on early momentum, because the closing date arrives before the regular season builds its own storylines.

For a nominee's supporters, the useful sequence is to secure the link, agree on a voting plan within the family and team community, and drive the first-day push rather than a last-day scramble. The ballot's simple form rewards reach, not technique.

How this ballot sits among Massachusetts high school fan votes

This program is one of several high school fan votes in Massachusetts carried by regional publishers, and its closest neighbour is the Enterprise Brockton Athlete of the Week, which shares the same publisher and platform family. The difference is scope and timing: the athlete of the week vote recurs through the sports calendar, while this seasonal award is aimed specifically at girls volleyball before league play starts.

Other sibling programs in the same market include the Eagle-Tribune Athlete of the Week run by a different Massachusetts publisher, the Massachusetts High School Athlete of the Week, the Massachusetts High School Baseball Player of the Week and the Massachusetts High School Basketball Player of the Week. There is also the Massachusetts Gatorade Softball Player of the Year, which shows how the player of the year format extends across girls sports in the state.

What distinguishes the Enterprise's volleyball ballot from those neighbours is its narrowness in a useful way. A weekly athlete vote draws from every sport and every gender across a rotating field; this poll concentrates the entire readership's attention on one sport, one gender and one award at a single moment, the preseason. For a nominee's community that concentration matters, because every shared link goes to the same small list of names rather than being split across a wide field. It also means the vote is decided quickly, since a September window does not linger the way a weekly series does.

Strengthening support in a short preseason poll

The action a supporter performs here is a single selection on a Crowdsignal form, so campaigns for this ballot succeed on reach and timing rather than repetition. Because the 2025 window ran in September and the poll is a preseason honor, the audience is warm before the first serve of the season: team rosters are set, families are engaged and the paper's volleyball preview coverage is already drawing readers. That is the moment to circulate the poll link through team group chats, booster channels and school community pages in Brockton, Abington and Hanson.

The organizer's printed position on outside help is, in this case, nothing at all. No published rule addresses purchased votes, automated submissions or campaign services for this poll, which cuts both ways: nothing expressly permits them and nothing forbids them, so any outside support stands or falls on the organizer's judgment. A supporter weighing that question should read the general legality overview at /trust/is-buying-votes-legal/ and the award-specific buying page at /buy-award-votes/, both of which describe the market without promising outcomes, since no page and no service can guarantee a result in a vote the organizer tallies on its own platform.

The dependable play is the organic one: name the nominee, give the direct link, and ask early while the window is open and attention is highest.