Who is the Taunton Daily Gazette Boys Indoor Track Fans' Choice Athlete of the Year: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Fans' Choice indoor track award is and who runs it

The Taunton Daily Gazette Boys Indoor Track Fans' Choice Athlete of the Year is a public fan award run by the Taunton Daily Gazette, the daily newspaper serving the Taunton, Massachusetts area. It belongs to the Gazette's Fans' Choice family of high school sports polls, and this edition covers boys indoor track specifically, asking readers one question: who was the athlete of the year for the season just played?

The voting itself happens on Crowdsignal, the polling service reached through poll.fm. The Gazette's ballot for the 2024-25 season sits at poll.fm/15012684, and the poll's title on that page reads "Who is the 2024-25 Taunton Daily Gazette Boys Indoor Track Fans' Choice Athlete of the Year?" with a closed status once voting ends. The format is a plain public vote: one question, one list of nominees, one button.

The nominees are high school athletes from schools in the Gazette's coverage area. The 2024-25 ballot drew its list from programs including Bridgewater-Raynham, Taunton, and Dighton-Rehoboth, which gives a sense of the competitive footprint: the Greater Taunton region's indoor track programs, not a statewide field. That local shape is what separates this award from the Gazette's broader seasonal polls and from statewide awards run by other outlets.

Because the award is decided entirely by public voting, the result reflects which community rallies hardest during the open window, and the organizer's rules, printed with each edition, set the terms of that rally.

The dated history: which editions ran and when the window falls

This fan vote has two confirmed edition years, 2022 and 2025. The 2022 edition is the earliest confirmed run for the program, and the 2025 edition is the most recent, anchored to the 2024-25 indoor track season. The Gazette labels the program as part of its recurring Fans' Choice coverage, and the two confirmed years fit a winter-season rhythm, with the indoor ballot live in February for the 2025 cycle.

The most specific dated fact attached to the Gazette's Fans' Choice track coverage comes from its own 2026 announcement, which told readers to cast votes with polls open through noon on Thursday, July 30. That deadline belongs to the Gazette's wider boys track and field fan vote for 2026, and it shows the pattern the paper follows: a named closing moment, printed in the story that launches the poll, rather than an open-ended vote.

What the Gazette has not printed in advance is the category roster for this ballot, so the exact slate of honors is something to confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The closing hour for the indoor edition specifically is likewise printed only with each season's launch story, not held anywhere in advance.

The practical takeaway for anyone following this ballot: expect the indoor edition during the winter season, expect a noon-style deadline announced when the poll opens, and treat the live ballot page as the only authoritative source for that season's dates.

How a supporter votes in the Gazette's indoor track poll today

Voting takes about a minute. To take part in the Gazette's boys indoor track fan vote, open poll.fm/15012684, read the nominee list the Gazette compiled, select one athlete, and press the vote button. The poll is a single question on Crowdsignal, so there are no brackets, no nomination round, and no second stage to wait for. The result is final as soon as the poll closes.

The Gazette's printed rule for its Fans' Choice track ballots is one vote per person per day. That single sentence defines the whole rhythm of support: a fan who wants to maximize a nominee's total does not vote repeatedly in one sitting, but returns each day the poll is open and casts a fresh vote. The 2026 announcement for the Gazette's track coverage built its window around exactly this pattern, keeping polls open through noon on Thursday, July 30 so daily voters had a fixed finish line.

The poll page itself does not describe an account requirement, and the Gazette's rule text does not mention one. Whether a given season's ballot adds any verification step is printed only on that season's live page. The same is true of the nominee roster: the 2024-25 poll listed athletes from schools including Bridgewater-Raynham, Taunton, and Dighton-Rehoboth, and each new edition carries a fresh list chosen by the Gazette's sports staff.

One caution belongs here. A closed poll, like the 2024-25 edition, displays its outcome instead of accepting votes, so arriving after the deadline ends a supporter's ability to participate until the next season's ballot opens.

How this ballot sits beside its Massachusetts neighbours

The Taunton Gazette's indoor track award is one of several fan-voted high school sports programs in Massachusetts, and its neighbours help define what makes it distinct. The Eagle-Tribune Athlete of the Week runs a weekly rhythm for a different readership area, and the Enterprise Brockton Athlete of the Week does the same for the Brockton market. Both are week-by-week awards; the Taunton indoor track poll is a season-capping athlete of the year question.

Statewide programs occupy a different lane again. The Massachusetts Gatorade Softball Player of the Year and the Massachusetts High School Athlete of the Week draw from the whole state, while the Gazette's indoor track ballot draws from its own Greater Taunton coverage area, which is why schools such as Bridgewater-Raynham, Taunton, and Dighton-Rehoboth dominate its nominee lists.

Season-specific siblings round out the picture: the Massachusetts High School Baseball Player of the Week and the Massachusetts High School Basketball Player of the Week cover their own sports on their own calendars, none of which overlaps the winter indoor track season this page covers.

What the Gazette's ballot offers that the weekly polls do not is a single, season-defining question with a long memory: the athlete of the year, decided once the indoor season is complete. What the weekly polls offer that this one does not is frequency, giving supporters a new ballot every seven days rather than one decisive winter vote.

Strengthening support for a nominee within the Gazette's rules

Because the Gazette caps each person at one vote per day, the winning strategy inside the rules is breadth and repetition, not volume from any single supporter. Start on the day the poll opens, since the 2026 track announcement's noon-on-Thursday-July-30 style deadline means late arrivals simply miss the window. Send the poll.fm address to the nominee's teammates, family group chats, and school social accounts, and pair every share with the daily reminder, because a supporter who voted yesterday can vote again today.

Keep the push inside the organizer's terms. The Gazette's printed rule is the boundary, and a campaign that respects it protects the nominee's total from being discounted. For a fuller picture of outreach that fits a once-a-day public poll, see our award-votes overview, which explains the landscape without promising any outcome.