CatchMark SportsNet WMC Player of the Year in Competitive Cheer: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the CatchMark WMC competitive cheer Player of the Year ballot is

The CatchMark SportsNet WMC Player of the Year in Competitive Cheer is a fan-voted award for competitive cheer athletes in the West Michigan Conference, published from Michigan by CatchMark Sports under its CatchMark SportsNet WMC brand. The organizer covers high school sports in the region, and the cheer edition sits inside a wider Player of the Year series that the publisher promotes on its own player of the year category page.

Crowdsignal's poll.fm service hosts the vote, with the ballot sitting at poll.fm/13493275. On that page the competitive cheer nominees appear as poll answers, each shown with a school affiliation, and a supporter registers a choice by selecting a name and submitting. Nothing beyond that list and its button is asked of a supporter: no nomination round, no bracket, just cheer nominees and a choice.

The table below pulls the programme's fixed facts into one place.

Because the ballot names schools rather than a single host venue, the programme belongs to the conference as a whole, and supporters of Mason County Central and Hart cheer programmes alike vote on the same Crowdsignal page.

The dated record for the WMC cheer Player of the Year vote

This cheer ballot has confirmed editions in 2023 and 2024. The most recent confirmed run carried the title Vote for 2023-24 CatchMark SportsNet WMC Player of the Year in competitive cheer, and that Crowdsignal poll is now marked closed. The 2023-24 label ties the ballot to a school sports season rather than a calendar year, which is typical for high school awards.

The current voting window is dated by the organizer itself: voting opened at 7 a.m. Monday, May 20 and closes at 7 a.m. Friday, May 31, per the CatchMark Sports player of the year category page. Both the opening and the closing fall in May, giving the cheer vote a short, clearly bounded run.

The closed 2023-24 ballot also published its final tally. The leading nominee finished with 85 percent of 5,057 votes, and the runner-up held 9 percent with 507 votes, a decisive margin for a conference-wide cheer vote.

Several facts sit outside that published surface. CatchMark SportsNet has not printed a category roster, a per-supporter vote limit or the next edition year on its cheer ballot; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The organizer's announcements page is the place where a new cheer ballot, with fresh dates, would first appear.

How a supporter votes in the CatchMark cheer poll today

A supporter voting in the CatchMark SportsNet WMC Player of the Year in Competitive Cheer works with a single Crowdsignal page. The ballot at poll.fm/13493275 lists the competitive cheer nominees as poll answers, each carrying a name and a school such as Mason County Central or Hart. The vote button sits beside the list, and pressing it registers the choice on the spot.

There is no separate supporter nomination step on this ballot. The organizer selects the cheer nominees, publishes them as poll answers, and the fan's job is confined to choosing among them before the close at 7 a.m. Friday, May 31. Once the poll closes, as the 2023-24 edition did, the page displays the final percentage tally instead of accepting further votes.

Practical points worth knowing before voting: the ballot is reached directly by its poll.fm address, the nominee list is the whole ballot, and any instruction about repeat voting would appear on that same Crowdsignal page rather than in a separate rules document. Because the cheer vote is short, running from May 20 to May 31 in the current cycle, a supporter who intends to vote should do so early rather than assume the poll is still open.

If the page shows a closed poll, that means the edition you reached has finished; the next cheer ballot would appear as a fresh poll.fm link once CatchMark SportsNet publishes it.

How the WMC cheer vote sits beside its Michigan neighbours

Michigan carries a crowded field of fan-voted high school sports ballots, and the CatchMark cheer Player of the Year is distinctive within it. The neighbouring programmes on this site are mostly weekly football honours: the Ann Arbor-Area High School Football Player of the Week, the MLive Bay City-Area High School Football Player of the Week, the Flint-Area High School Football Player of the Week, the Jackson-Area High School Football Player of the Week and the MLive Kalamazoo-Area High School Football Player of the Week. The High School on SI Michigan Athlete of the Week spans sports statewide.

Three differences set the CatchMark ballot apart. First, the sport: competitive cheer rather than football, which gives the West Michigan Conference's cheer programmes a fan vote their athletes otherwise lack. Second, the cadence: the honour is a season-end Player of the Year title rather than a weekly award, so a supporter gets a single concentrated window each cycle instead of a rolling series. Third, the publisher: CatchMark Sports runs it under its own CatchMark SportsNet WMC masthead rather than through a statewide media group.

For a supporter comparing Michigan ballots, the practical consequence is timing. The cheer vote's window runs May 20 to May 31 in the current cycle, while the weekly football programmes reset every week during their seasons.

Strengthening support in the CatchMark cheer vote

Support in this programme means votes on a single Crowdsignal ballot inside a short window, so the useful moves are the ones that bring supporters to poll.fm/13493275 before the May 31 close. The nominee list is fixed by the organizer, and the vote button is the whole mechanic, which makes sharing the ballot link the natural first step for a school community backing its cheer athlete.

CatchMark SportsNet has not printed any statement on outside help or voting software for the cheer ballot, so whatever the organizer permits is knowable only from its own live page. The tally's shape is public: the 2023-24 poll showed 85 percent to 9 percent at the top, so volume decides the outcome in a way everyone can see once the poll closes.

For supporters weighing paid support, the honest framing is on the award votes page, and the tactics that cost nothing are collected in the votes guide. Either way, the constraint is the same: the ballot closes at 7 a.m. Friday, May 31, and no support arriving after close counts toward the 2023-24 style tally.