Vote for the Daily News girls athlete of the week: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Daily News girls athlete of the week vote is

This Daily News programme puts a weekly public vote behind Massachusetts high school girls sports. Imperial Valley Press, a newspaper organization, is the named organizer, and the ballot runs under the Daily News masthead. Crowdsignal hosts the voting, with ballots living at poll.fm; poll.fm/17099363 is the programme's confirmed voting address. The vertical is school sport, and any reader who reaches the ballot can pick a nominee and press the vote button.

The June 1-7 ballot shows what a typical round looks like. Nominees represented girls lacrosse, track and field, golf and softball, drawn from schools in Natick, Ashland, Hopedale and Franklin. The programme's Massachusetts coverage area also reaches Hopkinton, Medway, Bellingham and Hudson, based on the school communities tied to the series.

Facts at a glance

Because the series is weekly, the poll.fm address above serves the latest ballot of the series rather than a permanent landing page. When a new round of Daily News nominees posts, the live vote moves to a fresh poll on the same host, and the older address keeps its final tally.

The dated record for this Daily News ballot

Four edition years are confirmed for this series: 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. That spread marks the Daily News girls ballot as a recurring piece of the Massachusetts spring sports schedule, not a one-time promotion. Inside the 2026 cycle, voting ran June 1-7, and the poll now sits closed.

The June 1-7 result is the one dated figure attached to the series: the leading nominee finished with 73 percent of 9,413 votes cast. That total gives a sense of the scale a single weekly Daily News round can reach in these Massachusetts school communities, where a motivated softball or lacrosse roster can move thousands of votes in seven days.

Several facts about the programme go unstated on the Daily News ballot itself. The page publishes no per-supporter voting rule and no nomination dates for future rounds. The organizer also does not print a category roster beyond the nominee list itself, and no round dates for the rest of the 2026 season appear alongside the closed poll.

Anyone weighing a campaign here should read the window as short and the totals as large. A seven-day Daily News round that ends near 9,413 votes leaves little time to build support after the ballot opens, which is why the schools that do well treat the first days of the poll as the whole campaign.

How a supporter votes in the Daily News poll today

Voting on the Crowdsignal ballot takes one deliberate step. Open the live poll.fm address for the current Daily News round, read the nominee list, select the radio button beside one athlete, and press the vote button. The poll then shows the percentage split across all nominees for that week.

Two details of the June 1-7 ballot are worth knowing before you vote. First, the round is closed, so that specific address now displays a final result instead of accepting new votes. Second, each weekly round is its own poll on poll.fm, so the live vote for the current nominees sits at a different address from the June 1-7 poll. The way to find the live ballot is the organizer's own promotion of the current round.

No account is called for anywhere on the Daily News ballot, and it prints no rule about repeat voting inside a round. Whatever limit applies is enforced by the host's own settings rather than by anything stated on the face of the poll, so anyone planning a second vote should watch for the poll's own response when that attempt is made.

Since every nominee is a minor competing in a school sport, the tone of a campaign matters. The rounds that produce tallies like the 73 percent finish in June are driven by school communities rallying behind their own nominee, not by anonymous voting. A supporter's most effective move is to share the live poll.fm link where the nominee's classmates, teammates and local families already gather.

How this ballot sits beside its Massachusetts neighbours

This Daily News series sits among a group of public vote programmes covering Massachusetts high school sport, and it is worth knowing how it differs from the others before deciding where a campaign belongs.

One counterpart, Eagle-Tribune's weekly Athlete of the Week, covers a different readership area under a different masthead, and the Enterprise Brockton Athlete of the Week does the same for its own city. Both are weekly reader votes like this one, but their nominee pools and voting windows are separate, and a vote cast in one carries no weight toward any of them.

Statewide programmes sit at another level. The Massachusetts Gatorade Softball Player of the Year is a season-long award rather than a weekly poll, while the Massachusetts High School Athlete of the Week and the baseball and basketball player of the week ballots cover the state under their own separate publishers.

What makes the Daily News round distinct is its combination of a girls-only nominee list, a weekly cadence and a Crowdsignal home at poll.fm, with the June 1-7 window as its confirmed 2026 slot. A nominee whose school sits in the Natick, Ashland, Hopedale or Franklin area competes here, not in the Brockton or Eagle-Tribune rounds, so support should be aimed at the correct ballot from the first day.

Building support inside a seven-day Daily News round

A weekly poll with a June 1-7 style window rewards speed. The mechanic is one button press on the Crowdsignal ballot, so the work is not in voting itself but in getting the live poll.fm link in front of enough real supporters before the round closes. In a Daily News round that reached 9,413 votes, the difference between nominees is usually made in the first two or three days.

The organizer does not print a rule on outside vote help on the ballot page, so the safest ground is the support a nominee can earn openly: a team group chat, the school's own social accounts, a mention in the local community page, and a reminder to vote before the poll closes. Those channels match how the biggest tallies in this series have been built.

Should paid support be under consideration for a public poll like this one, read our award votes page first for what a purchase actually involves, and keep expectations grounded: no package, ours included, can promise victory in a vote that thousands of genuine readers also shape.