The South Shore Female Athlete of the Week: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the South Shore Female Athlete of the Week is and who votes in it

Each week of the Massachusetts school sports calendar, the South Shore Female Athlete of the Week puts a shortlist of high school girls on a Crowdsignal page at poll.fm, and the wider community decides the winner by picking a single name. The current ballot lives at https://poll.fm/17130539, poll 17130539 on the platform, and the award honors girls' sports across the South Shore region of the state.

The athletes on the shortlist come from schools across the South Shore area. Weekly ballots have included girls competing in tennis, track and field and rugby, with towns such as Weymouth, Milton, Hanson, East Bridgewater, West Bridgewater, Raynham and Stoughton represented through their school programs. That mix matters to a supporter because the ballot is a regional honor, not a single-school contest: a volleyball player in Stoughton and a rugby player in Weymouth can appear on the same week's field.

For a local business or a team parent deciding where to spend promotion effort, the shape of the program is simple. A short window, a small field of nominees and a deadline on a weekday afternoon mean support has to be organized fast and pointed at the exact poll.fm page for that week. The summary table gathers the program's standing details.

The dated record for this ballot

The series has confirmed editions in 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. Within that run, the 2024 through 2026 stretch is the best documented part of the calendar: the Crowdsignal series shows 10 dated ballots across those 3 seasons, which is what establishes the program as an annual fixture with a week-by-week rhythm inside each school year rather than a single yearly poll.

The ballots themselves carry weekday-afternoon deadlines. A March edition stated that voting is unlimited and would conclude on Tuesday, March 17, at noon, and a September edition ran through Tuesday, Sept. 22. Dated ballots have appeared across February, May, June, September and December, so the weekly series tracks the school sports calendar across fall, winter and spring rather than a single season. The next expected cycle follows in 2027.

What the poll pages do not spell out is how a shortlist is built. The ballot prints only the names, schools and sports of that week's nominees; the criteria that put an athlete on the weekly field, and who assembles it, are never stated alongside the vote, so the current field is something to confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

The calendar ahead works the same way. Each weekly edition sets its own closing time, and the organizer publishes no season schedule in advance, so a supporter who cares about a particular week needs to catch that week's ballot while it is open.

How to vote in the current South Shore ballot

The mechanic on the ballot is about as plain as public voting gets. Open https://poll.fm/17130539 and you land on the current week's shortlist of South Shore female athletes, each listed with her school and sport. Mark your chosen nominee and submit, and the poll page confirms the choice. No account is asked for on the ballot itself, so the whole action takes well under a minute, which is why classmate and family outreach converts so well on this kind of poll.

Repeat voting is the part supporters ask about most. The organizer's March ballot stated plainly that voting is unlimited, closing at noon on Tuesday, March 17, which meant a motivated supporter could return and vote again inside that week's window. Weekly editions can run their own rules, so the safe habit is to read the line printed under the poll on the live page before planning a repeat-vote push.

Nominations run by a different route than voting. A published ballot note said future player nominations can be emailed in, so a coach or parent who wants an athlete considered sends the girl's name, her school and her sport by email rather than through any form on the poll page. Once the athlete appears on a weekly shortlist, the voting side takes over, and the same poll.fm link carries the field until that week's deadline passes and the next shortlist replaces it.

How this ballot sits beside its Massachusetts neighbours

Massachusetts high school sports readers have several weekly athlete ballots to choose from, and the South Shore female poll occupies a specific lane among them. The Massachusetts High School Athlete of the Week and the Massachusetts Gatorade Softball Player of the Year cover the state at large, while the South Shore series narrows to girls' athletes from its own cluster of towns in the eastern part of the state, from Weymouth and Milton out through East Bridgewater and Raynham.

Two neighbouring ballots are closest in shape. The Enterprise Brockton Athlete of the Week serves the Brockton market next door, and the Eagle-Tribune Athlete of the Week serves a different region of the state entirely, so a nominee's community decides which of these ballots actually matters to her. Sport specific companions, the Massachusetts High School Baseball Player of the Week and the Massachusetts High School Basketball Player of the Week, split the boys' side into single sports.

What distinguishes the South Shore female ballot inside that group is the combination of a girls-only field, a weekly reset and a small, tight-knit catchment of schools. Support travels through team group chats and school athletic accounts faster in a market that size, and a week's winner is decided by a fraction of the effort a statewide ballot would demand.

Strengthening support for a South Shore nominee

Because unlimited voting was the stated rule on a published ballot of this series, the practical playbook for a South Shore nominee is repetition plus reach. Send the poll.fm link to the team roster the day the shortlist appears, ask the school's athletic social account to repost it, and schedule a second reminder for the closing day itself, since weekly deadlines land on weekday afternoons when students are still in the building. What the organizer permits beyond ordinary repeat voting is not printed with the poll, and a push that reads as automated risks the entry, so keep the effort human. The votes guide and the award votes page lay out the wider options and trade-offs in detail.