The Hometeam Girls' Soccer Player of the Week: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Hometeam Girls' Soccer Player of the Week is and who runs it

The Hometeam Girls' Soccer Player of the Week is a Massachusetts high school sports honor decided entirely by fan voting. Hometeam, the organizer behind the program, posts a ballot during the girls' soccer season and lets readers decide which nominee takes the weekly title. The balloting runs on Crowdsignal, and the series ballot lives at poll.fm/14571347.

Three facts fix the program's shape. The vertical is sport, and the nominee pool comes from girls' high school soccer in Massachusetts. The mechanic is a public vote, meaning the choice belongs to any reader who opens the ballot rather than to a jury or a coaches' panel. And the program is episodic: each week of the season produces its own poll, its own nominee slate and its own result, so a supporter is never more than a few days from a fresh chance to weigh in.

Since the nominees are high school athletes, this reference page describes the program without naming any player. The schools represented on a given week's slate appear on the ballot itself, and the closed 2024 poll displays the share of votes each nominee earned beside her name.

The dated history behind the Hometeam girls' soccer poll

The program's dated history holds two seasons, 2022 and 2024. The 2024 season is the better documented of the pair, because its weekly polls can be dated. The poll.fm series places the 2024 voting inside October, from the start of the month to its end, which matches the Massachusetts fall soccer calendar. Four ballots made up the 2024 season, each a separate weekly poll with its own slate of nominees.

The final ballot of that season, the poll now served at the voting URL, has closed. It shows the leading nominee with 51 percent of the vote on 20,655 votes, and the runner-up at 40 percent on 16,263 votes. Those figures are the only published numbers attached to the program, and they come straight from the closed poll's result screen.

What Hometeam leaves unprinted matters equally for anyone timing a push around this ballot. The precise opening day and closing day of the October window, a limit on repeat voting, an eligibility rule and the next edition year are all absent from the ballot page; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. Round dates beyond the weekly polls carry no published schedule either, since nothing for this market has been printed.

How a supporter votes in the Hometeam girls' soccer poll

Voting in this program is a simple action repeated weekly. When Hometeam posts a new Player of the Week poll, a supporter loads that week's ballot on poll.fm, reads the slate of girls' soccer nominees, selects a name and submits. There is no nomination round for readers to work through; the organizer assembles the nominee list, and the fan vote begins as soon as the poll goes live.

The closed 2024 ballot shows what the process produces. Each nominee appears with her school, and once the poll closes the page displays the final percentage share for every name, which is how the top of that slate finished far ahead of the rest. A live poll shows the same tally building in real time as votes arrive.

Timing matters more than anything else in this format. A weekly poll lives for a few days inside the October window, so a vote cast after the poll closes counts for nothing. The season's final ballot is closed, so visiting it today shows a final result rather than a choice to make. For a live ballot, check back at the start of each October week of the soccer season. Neither registration nor a per-person cap shows anywhere on that page, so the practical barrier is simply knowing the poll is open.

Where this ballot sits among Massachusetts fan-vote programs

This poll is among several Massachusetts high school fan votes with pages on this site, and each occupies its own lane. The Eagle-Tribune Athlete of the Week and the Enterprise Brockton Athlete of the Week are publisher-run, multi-sport honors tied to their own newsrooms. The Massachusetts Gatorade Softball Player of the Year is a state-level season award in a different sport altogether. 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 cover the statewide athlete-of-the-week format in general, baseball and basketball terms.

Against that field, the Hometeam Girls' Soccer Player of the Week is narrower on purpose. It names a single sport, a single gender and a weekly cadence inside the October window, and it runs through Crowdsignal rather than a newspaper's own contest tooling. A supporter whose player is in the girls' soccer nominee pool has no substitute ballot among the siblings, because none of the others votes on girls' soccer. That is also why the weekly rhythm matters: missing a week's poll cannot be made up on another program's ballot, since every sibling honors a different sport, season or market.

Strengthening support during the October window

Support in a weekly public vote is won by speed and reach, not by anything clever. The poll opens at the start of the week and closes within days, so the first move is sharing the ballot link the moment the new nominee list appears, while every supporter still has time to act. The natural audience is the school community around the nominee: teammates, families, class groups, alongside accounts run by the school itself, all pointed at the same poll.fm page with a clear ask to vote before the poll closes. Because Hometeam publishes no outside-help rules on the ballot page, read the live ballot for any wording it does carry before mounting a large push. The broader tactics that work on fan ballots of this kind are collected in how to get more votes online.