The Enterprise High School Female Athlete of the Week: How Voting Works & How to Win

The Enterprise's weekly female athlete vote and the problem of a seven-day window

A supporter whose athlete lands on this ballot faces a problem most contests do not have: the vote resets every week. The nominee named on the Oct. 30 poll is not the nominee on the following week's ballot, so any push behind a particular athlete has a window measured in days, not weeks. That shape decides everything about how support works here, because there is no long runway to build on.

The program itself is straightforward. The Enterprise, a Massachusetts newspaper, runs The Enterprise High School Female Athlete of the Week, a sport vertical ballot decided entirely by public vote. The balloting is hosted on Crowdsignal through poll.fm, and the live voting URL is https://poll.fm/14576255. The Oct. 30 edition of the poll listed nominees from Bridgewater-Raynham cross country, West Bridgewater volleyball, Abington soccer and Southeastern soccer, drawn from communities such as Abington, East Bridgewater, West Bridgewater, Hanson, Rockland and Raynham.

Facts at a glance

Because the field changes weekly, the practical question for any supporter is timing. The ballot that matters is the one live this week, and the nominee list on it is the only list that counts toward this week's result.

Which editions of the Enterprise female athlete vote are confirmed

The dated history for this series is short but real. Confirmed seasons of The Enterprise High School Female Athlete of the Week are 2022 and 2024, which marks the program as a recurring annual fixture rather than a single experiment. The representative ballot in the 2024 season is the Oct. 30 poll, so the confirmed voting window for that edition fell in October, during the fall high school sports calendar.

Several details around that window stay unprinted. The Enterprise leaves each poll's opening and closing times off the page, along with the nomination process that puts an athlete on the ballot and the next edition year for the series; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The poll page itself carries the current week's nominees and nothing about the surrounding schedule.

Two further gaps follow from that. The organizer publishes no eligibility rule for nominees beyond the female high school athlete framing, and no round dates for the platform are announced anywhere ahead of each poll. A reader planning around this series should treat the live ballot as the sole schedule that exists, because The Enterprise has not printed a season calendar for the vote.

The 2022 and 2024 seasons are the anchor points. Anything about 2026 or 2027 is speculation until the newspaper posts a new weekly ballot and the series shows itself to be running again.

How a supporter votes on the Enterprise female athlete ballot today

Voting takes a minute and needs no login. A supporter loads the poll at https://poll.fm/14576255, where The Enterprise lists the current week's female athlete of the week nominees. Each nominee appears with her school and sport, in the same pattern the Oct. 30 ballot used: a name, a school such as Bridgewater-Raynham, West Bridgewater, Abington or Southeastern, and a sport such as cross country, volleyball or soccer.

The supporter marks the circle next to the chosen athlete and taps the submit control under the Enterprise nominee lineup. The poll page prints no account requirement, so the vote is a direct selection and submission. The organizer's published rule states that votes are unlimited, which means anyone backing a nominee may come back to the poll and repeat the choice rather than being held to a single selection.

That unlimited rule is the most important mechanic on the ballot, because it changes what a serious push looks like. Where a one-vote household caps a campaign at its reach, this ballot rewards repetition and reminders. The Enterprise has not printed a daily schedule or any per-person limit beyond the unlimited statement, so the practical ceiling is that week's deadline, not a counter.

The weekly deadline is also the one that matters. Each poll ends on its own schedule, and the newspaper has not published closing times ahead of the ballot, so early support is worth more than a late surge.

How this ballot sits beside its Massachusetts neighbours

The Enterprise is not the only Massachusetts publisher running this kind of vote, and the nearest neighbour is its own sibling. The Enterprise Brockton Athlete of the Week comes from the same publisher family and covers a closely related readership, so a nominee or a supporter can easily confuse the two ballots. They are separate polls with separate nominee lists, and a vote on one does nothing for the other.

Beyond the publisher's own pair, the state has a wider set of weekly and seasonal ballots. The Eagle-Tribune Athlete of the Week runs a similar reader vote from a different newsroom, while the Massachusetts High School Athlete of the Week takes a broader statewide view of the same audience.

Season-ending awards sit alongside the weekly format too. The Massachusetts Gatorade Softball Player of the Year is a player-of-the-year ballot rather than a weekly honour, and sport-specific series such as the Massachusetts High School Baseball Player of the Week and the Massachusetts High School Basketball Player of the Week narrow the field to one sport at a time.

What makes the Enterprise female ballot distinct is its combination of a single publisher, a female-only field and a weekly reset, which no other ballot on this list replicates in the same market.

Strengthening support for a nominee on a weekly ballot

A weekly ballot rewards speed. Because the Oct. 30 poll and every poll like it resets with a fresh nominee list, the useful work happens early in each weekly window, not the last. The organizer states that votes are unlimited, so the core tactic is repetition: vote, remind the people who already care, and ask them to vote again before the unpublished weekly close.

Reach matters as much as repetition. A nominee's own network, her teammates, the school's sports community and local groups around Abington, West Bridgewater, Rockland and the other towns in the ballot's catchment are the audience that actually converts on a poll like this. The Enterprise has published no policy on outside help for the series, so the safe reading is the published rule itself: votes are unlimited, and nothing else is restricted on the face of the ballot.

For a fuller treatment of tactics that fit short-window public votes, see our votes guide, and for the service options behind that discussion, our award votes page describes the general categories. No purchase promises a win on any ballot, and this one is decided by whatever the weekly count shows when The Enterprise closes the poll.