South Shore Girls Lacrosse Player of the Year: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the South Shore Girls Lacrosse Player of the Year is and who runs it

The South Shore Girls Lacrosse Player of the Year is a fan-voted award for high school girls lacrosse in the South Shore region of Massachusetts. The program runs under the South Shore name, which serves as both the organizer label and the market identifier on the ballot. Unlike a newspaper-branded award, the poll page does not attach a masthead or a publisher byline, so the organizing identity is carried entirely by the program name itself.

The ballot is hosted on Crowdsignal, reached through the poll.fm domain, at the specific address poll.fm/17189511. That URL is the poll page for the award, not a platform landing page, and it is where any supporter lands to cast a vote while a window is open. Crowdsignal is a survey and polling service, and its ballots typically present a single question with a list of answer options, which matches the shape of this poll: a nominee list where each option pairs a player with her school.

The market is the South Shore region of Massachusetts, and the nominee list reflects that geography. Schools appearing on the 2026 ballot include Duxbury, Hingham, Cohasset, Scituate and Norwell, alongside private programs such as Thayer Academy, Notre Dame Academy and Archbishop Williams. That mix of public and private schools is typical of the region's lacrosse scene.

Facts at a glance

The dated record: which editions ran and when the window falls

2 confirmed editions of the program exist: 2022 and 2026. Those are the years the ballot is documented for, and they are what qualifies the program as annual rather than a one-off. Nothing between those years is published on the ballot page itself, and the organizer does not attach a schedule, a season announcement or an archive of past winners to the poll.

The 2026 edition carried its voting window in July. That month placement is the single dated fact about the live cycle: the poll opened and closed within July 2026, and the ballot now displays a closed status with the final standings visible. No opening day, no closing day and no hour of closure are printed anywhere on the page, so anyone planning support for a future edition is working from the July pattern alone.

The final tally from the closed 2026 poll is public. The leading nominee finished at 43 percent, the runner-up at 41 percent, a narrow margin of 2 points at the top. A third nominee drew 9 percent and a fourth 3 percent, with the remaining options trailing behind. The closeness of the top two is the kind of margin where late pushes matter in fan-vote awards.

What the organizer has not published is the rules layer: no per-supporter voting limit, no eligibility criteria and no statement on repeat visits appears on the ballot; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The same holds for the exact dates of the next window, which the closed page does not preview.

How a supporter votes on this ballot today

The mechanic is deliberately simple. A supporter opens poll.fm/17189511, and the Crowdsignal page loads the South Shore Girls Lacrosse Player of the Year ballot directly. There is no registration step, no account creation and no login gate described on the page. The question sits at the top, and beneath it the nominee list appears, each option naming a player and her school.

To vote, the supporter marks one option and sends the form. Crowdsignal registers the choice and, while the poll is open, the running tally is visible. Once the poll closes, as the 2026 edition has, the page switches to a closed state that shows the final percentages instead of accepting new votes. That closed state is what visitors to the URL see now.

Because the ballot is a single-question poll rather than a multi-category ballot, there are no rounds, no brackets and no nomination form to fill in. A supporter's entire participation is the selection and the submit. This makes the award easy to promote: the whole ask fits in a single link, which is why school communities and lacrosse families tend to circulate the poll.fm address directly during the July window.

The open question is frequency. The ballot page prints no rule on repeat visits, whether a second submission registers, or whether any device or cookie restriction applies. Supporters who want to return across the window should read what the live poll allows at the time, since the organizer has not stated a policy on the page itself.

How this ballot sits beside its Massachusetts neighbours

Massachusetts carries a crowded field of fan-vote high school sports awards, and this program occupies a specific niche within it. Where the Eagle-Tribune Athlete of the Week and the Enterprise Brockton Athlete of the Week are tied to named newspapers and their coverage territories, the South Shore Girls Lacrosse Player of the Year is tied to a region and a single sport rather than a masthead.

It also differs in scope from the statewide awards. The Massachusetts Gatorade Softball Player of the Year covers an entire state in a different sport, while the Massachusetts High School Athlete of the Week and the baseball and basketball player of the week programs run on recurring weekly cycles. This award is narrower: one gender, one sport, one region, and a single end-of-season poll rather than a weekly series.

That narrowness shapes the vote math. A weekly athlete-of-the-week ballot resets its audience every cycle, while a player-of-the-year poll accumulates support for a single question over one window, which is why the 2026 final showed the top two nominees separated by only 2 points at 43 and 41 percent. For supporters, the practical difference is that every share of the poll.fm link lands on the same ballot for the whole window, so momentum compounds instead of resetting.

For a broader look at paid vote support across award ballots of this kind, the award votes overview covers how these contests are generally structured.