QCY Patriot Ledger Girls Basketball Player of the Year: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the QCY Patriot Ledger Girls Basketball Player of the Year is

Most of the Massachusetts school-sport ballots covered on this site are weekly honours: the Eagle-Tribune Athlete of the Week and the Enterprise Brockton Athlete of the Week each reset every few days and crown a new name. The QCY Patriot Ledger Girls Basketball Player of the Year works differently. It is a season-closing award, run by The Patriot Ledger, a newspaper based in Massachusetts whose coverage centres on Quincy and the towns around it, including Holbrook and Hanson. Instead of a rotating weekly field, the ballot gathers a single slate of girls basketball nominees from area high school programs and asks readers to choose a player of the year.

The vote itself is a plain public poll, and Crowdsignal (poll.fm) is the host behind it, the same platform behind several other Massachusetts ballots on this site; the working ballot is poll.fm/15239592. The Patriot Ledger publishes the poll under its QCY branding, and the newspaper's own domain, patriotledger.com, is where its high school sports coverage lives. No entry fee and no registration step are advertised on the ballot; a reader simply arrives and votes. The table pulls the program's fixed details together in a single place, and the sections that follow cover the edition years, the voting mechanic, and how this honour sits beside its Massachusetts neighbours.

Edition years and the March window

The Patriot Ledger has two confirmed editions of this girls basketball honour: 2023 and 2025. Both fall into a March window, so the award closes out the Massachusetts high school basketball winter season rather than running through it. Between those two confirmed years the year list shows nothing: no ballot for 2024 is part of the confirmed run, and readers should not assume the award ran without interruption. The most recent confirmed edition is the 2025 poll, and a 2026 edition is the expected next run given the annual pattern the two confirmed years suggest.

The ballot never states the exact opening day or the closing day; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. Other details are equally absent from the published page. The ballot sets out no per-supporter limit, no statement on whether repeat visits are accepted, and no eligibility text describing who may take part. No separate nomination round is advertised either; the slate appears to be published directly by the newspaper. Because Crowdsignal runs the poll, any platform-side round dates would appear on the poll page itself, and none are printed there today. Treat March as the reliable anchor and the live ballot as the source for everything more precise.

How a supporter votes in the Patriot Ledger poll today

Voting in this Patriot Ledger ballot takes a short, literal sequence. The route in: point a browser at poll.fm/15239592, where the page presents the QCY poll title and the slate of girls basketball nominees, each listed alongside her school. Nominee names are omitted here, since the ballot concerns high school athletes; the live poll is where the current slate should be read.

Once the ballot loads, the supporter selects a nominee and casts the vote. No account creation, no login and no payment step is advertised anywhere on the poll page, and The Patriot Ledger does not print a rule saying otherwise. What the page also does not print is a repeat-vote rule: whether a supporter may come back the next day and vote again, or whether the poll accepts a single ballot per person for the whole round, is not stated. A supporter who wants to rally votes for a particular nominee should plan around the March window and send classmates, family and teammates straight to the poll link, since the ballot is the only place the current nominee list lives. If the poll page changes between seasons, the new link will be the one The Patriot Ledger publishes with its coverage, so checking the newspaper's site alongside the poll is the dependable habit.

How this ballot sits beside its Massachusetts neighbours

This ballot sits in a crowded Massachusetts field, and its differences are what make it useful to readers. The Eagle-Tribune Athlete of the Week covers its region with a weekly reset, while the Enterprise Brockton Athlete of the Week does the same for the Brockton area. The Massachusetts High School Athlete of the Week and the Massachusetts High School Baseball Player of the Week run statewide or sport-wide fields, and the Massachusetts High School Basketball Player of the Week covers hoops on a weekly cycle.

The Patriot Ledger's award differs on every axis: it is girls-only, it crowns one player for the whole season instead of a fresh weekly winner, and it is anchored to a single newspaper's coverage area around Quincy rather than to the whole state. The closest cousin in spirit is the Massachusetts Gatorade Softball Player of the Year, which is also a season-ending, single-sport, single-gender honour, though it covers softball in the spring rather than basketball in the winter. A reader deciding where to spend attention should match the honour to the sport and the timescale: weekly ballots reward repeated participation, while this March poll is a concentrated push behind a single girls basketball nominee.

Strengthening support in this poll

Because The Patriot Ledger poll runs as a single concentrated March round rather than a weekly series, support has to be concentrated in a short span. The dependable moves are the ones any public poll rewards: post the poll.fm link where classmates and teammates will see it, ask each person to vote, and send reminders while the window stays open. The ballot page itself carries no published statement about outside vote help, and The Patriot Ledger prints no policy on the subject, so the honest position is that nothing on the ballot either permits or forbids it.

Anyone weighing purchased votes can read our votes guide and our legality page before deciding, and our pricing page lists vote packages separately. Whatever route a supporter takes, the organizer's silence on the rules means the live ballot remains the single authority worth checking.