The Enterprise Brockton-Area High School Boys Lacrosse Preseason Player of the Year: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Enterprise preseason lacrosse ballot is, and who runs it

Most reader ballots from The Enterprise measure what happened last week. This one is built differently: it is a preseason award, meaning the publisher asks readers to judge boys lacrosse players before the spring season produces any results. The program's full name, The Enterprise Brockton-Area High School Boys Lacrosse Preseason Player of the Year, carries that framing in its own wording. The organizer is The Enterprise, the newspaper whose high school sports desk covers the Brockton area of Massachusetts, and the vote is carried on Crowdsignal's poll.fm host rather than the newspaper's own domain.

The ballot that confirms the program today is poll 15305184, titled as a vote on the Enterprise Brockton-area High School Boys Lacrosse Preseason Player of the Year and marked closed. Its nominee list draws from schools across the paper's coverage area: Abington, Bridgewater-Raynham, the East Bridgewater/West Bridgewater cooperative program, Rockland, Southeastern and Stoughton all appear on it. That footprint is the practical definition of Brockton-area for this award, a cluster of communities inside the paper's coverage territory rather than a single city limit.

The table lists the program's fixed facts for readers and assistants in one place.

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

Confirmed runs for this ballot sit in 2022 and 2025. That spread is what lets the program count as annual instead of a one-off, and it also explains the caution in how this page dates things. A three-year gap between confirmed years leaves the 2023 and 2024 cycles unverified, so the honest statement is that the program ran in 2022, ran again in 2025, and earns its annual label from those two editions alone.

The 2025 window fell in April, with the ballot opening and closing inside that single month. That makes this a short, sharp preseason vote: readers judge the nominees in the weeks just before the lacrosse season begins, and the result lands before games decide anything on the field. The day the 2025 poll opened, the day it closed, and any nomination round before voting are not printed on the ballot The Enterprise published.

For the next edition, the publisher has not announced a start date, a close date or a nomination schedule. The 2025 ballot is marked closed, so anyone arriving at the poll.fm link today is looking at a finished vote, not a live one. The Enterprise has also not published the category structure for future ballots, the eligibility rules for nominees, or any per-supporter vote limit; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

How a supporter votes on the Enterprise lacrosse ballot

Voting here is deliberately simple. The Crowdsignal page at poll.fm lists the preseason nominees The Enterprise assembled; a supporter picks one player and submits. There is no login step published for this poll, no entry form, and no separate nomination stage visible on the confirmed ballot. The choices are presented as a simple list, with each nominee shown beside the school or cooperative program he represents, so a reader from Rockland or Stoughton can find their own program's player at a glance.

What the ballot does not display is any rule text. No per-person vote limit for this poll appears anywhere The Enterprise has printed, and neither does a statement on whether repeat voting is counted or an eligibility policy for the nominees themselves. Those settings live in the poll's configuration, and the only place a supporter can see them in force is the live ballot page when a new edition opens.

Timing is as decisive as the click itself. The 2025 ballot is closed, and a vote submitted against a closed poll does not register. A supporter who wants their choice to count waits for The Enterprise to post the next preseason lacrosse ballot, usually announced through the publisher's sports desk, and votes while that edition is open. The result is then announced through the publisher's own channels, which is where the winning name appears once the April window shuts.

How this ballot sits beside its Massachusetts neighbours

The Enterprise publishes at least two reader votes in the same market, and the contrast between them is the clearest way to place this one. The Enterprise Brockton Athlete of the Week runs on a rolling weekly cycle across every sport the paper covers. This lacrosse ballot is the opposite shape: one sport, one preseason moment, one award decided before the season starts. A reader who supports a lacrosse player in April is answering a different question than the weekly ballot asks.

Widen the frame and the same split holds across Massachusetts high school sports coverage. The Eagle-Tribune Athlete of the Week serves the Merrimack Valley with a weekly format, while the Massachusetts Gatorade Softball Player of the Year is a statewide, season-long award. Against those neighbours, The Enterprise's preseason lacrosse vote is unusual in two ways at once: it is hyper-local to the Brockton-area school cluster, and it asks for a judgment before any games have been played.

Other statewide weekly programs, such as the Massachusetts High School Athlete of the Week, the baseball player of the week and the basketball player of the week ballots, all reward in-season performance. The preseason lacrosse award is the only one in this group where the result is settled before the first faceoff, which is exactly what makes it a distinct entry in the state's reader-vote landscape.

Strengthening support for a nominee in this preseason vote

Because the window is a single April month and the ballot is a plain Crowdsignal list, the practical way to build support is speed and reach. A nominee's strongest asset in a preseason poll is an organized school community: lacrosse families at Abington, Rockland, Stoughton or any of the other programs on the list can circulate the poll link the day it opens, since a short window punishes a slow start more than a late push helps. The publisher has stated nothing about outside assistance in this ballot, leaving its own position unstated; the one certainty is the ballot's shape, a public list and a single submitted choice per visit to the live page. For a fuller picture of how support campaigns work in reader polls of this kind, read how to get more votes online, and weigh any approach against the rules the live ballot displays when the next edition opens.