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

What the Taunton Gazette Fans' Choice indoor track award is

The Taunton Daily Gazette runs a Fans' Choice series that hands its readers the verdict on local high school sport, and the boys indoor track Athlete of the Year is one of its end-of-season questions. One question sits on the ballot, who deserves the boys indoor track athlete of the year honor, and readers alone decide the answer; no editors' panel weighs in.

The poll lives at poll.fm/16747478 on Crowdsignal, the polling platform that carries the Gazette's fan ballots, and that address is the voting URL for this program. The 2025-26 edition drew nominees from school communities in and around Taunton, Massachusetts, including Taunton, Bridgewater-Raynham and Dighton-Rehoboth, which places the award firmly in the newspaper's own coverage area in the southeastern part of the state.

Because the ballot names high school athletes, the program is described here through its publisher, its sport, its season and its market, and no individual nominees are listed. The facts below are the ones made public by the ballot and the organizer's own coverage.

Dated facts for the boys indoor track ballot

Confirmed editions of this program fall in 2022 and 2026. The 2026 ballot belongs to the 2025-26 indoor track season, and the Gazette's coverage dated the voting window with a single hard fact, polls open through noon on Sunday, March 22. That puts the live window in March, and the poll is now marked closed on poll.fm.

What the organizer has not put on the page is the other half of the calendar. No opening day for the 2025-26 ballot was printed, and no nomination round is described anywhere in the coverage, so a reader who wants the full window has to work from the close date alone. The category roster is the same kind of gap: the ballot carries one award question, and the Gazette has not published a list of ballot categories beyond it; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

With 2022 and 2026 both confirmed, the Taunton Gazette's indoor track program counts as annual instead of a single-season event. It is not a long unbroken run on paper, so treat the March close as the pattern of the current cycle and check the next edition's dates when the Gazette publishes them.

How a supporter votes in the Taunton Gazette poll

Voting takes almost no setup. A supporter goes to the Taunton Gazette's Crowdsignal page at poll.fm/16747478, reads the list of boys indoor track nominees, marks the circle next to one name and presses the vote button. Crowdsignal logs the choice on the spot, and the tally shown on the same page updates immediately.

The Gazette attached one rule to the 2025-26 ballot: voting can only be done through the poll, with one vote per person per hour, and any votes submitted by email or other means will not be counted. That hourly limit is the whole rule set the coverage printed. No eligibility language, no minimum age and no residency requirement appear alongside it, so a supporter who wants the fine print of the next edition has to read the live ballot when it opens.

Because the current poll is marked closed, the sequence above describes what a supporter does when the next edition goes live, not what the page shows today. The practical rhythm under an hourly rule is a daily return: vote once, come back after the hour passes, vote again. Supporters who want a broader playbook for fan ballots can read how to get more votes online, which covers the same mechanic from the organizer's side.

Where this ballot sits among Massachusetts fan votes

The Taunton Gazette's indoor track award is one of several public-vote programs on this site in the same state and the same vertical. Its closest neighbours are the Eagle-Tribune Athlete of the Week and the Enterprise Brockton Athlete of the Week, both newspaper-run ballots like this one, each answering to its own publisher.

Statewide programs round out the set: the Massachusetts Gatorade Softball Player of the Year, 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.

What separates the Taunton ballot from those neighbours is its shape. The weekly programs reset their question every week during a season, while this one is a single end-of-season award for boys indoor track, decided once the indoor campaign finishes. Its window is correspondingly short, anchored to the March close, and its nominee list is fixed when the ballot opens rather than refreshed week to week. A reader comparing Massachusetts fan votes should match the ballot to the question they want to answer: weekly form for the athlete-of-the-week programs, season-long standing for this one.

Supporting a nominee within the Gazette's rules

The hourly rule is the lever a supporter actually controls. One vote per person per hour means a committed family or teammate group can multiply its impact simply by returning to the poll.fm ballot at regular intervals across the voting window, which for the 2025-26 edition ran to noon on Sunday, March 22. Sharing the ballot link directly, rather than a screenshot, matters too, because the Gazette counts only votes cast through the poll itself.

The organizer's own wording draws the boundary: votes submitted by email or other means will not be counted, so any push that routes around the ballot is wasted effort by definition. Bulk voting that treats the hourly limit as an obstacle sits in tension with the rule the Gazette printed, and the honest options are the ones that work inside it. For a fuller treatment of fan-vote campaigns on newspaper polls, see the award-votes reference and weigh it against the Gazette's printed rules.