Moore Mechanical Athlete of the Week: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Moore Mechanical Athlete of the Week is and who runs it

The Moore Mechanical Athlete of the Week is a public-vote recognition program for high school athletes in northern Michigan. It carries the name of its sponsor, Moore Mechanical, and the voting itself is hosted on Crowdsignal, the polling service reached through poll.fm. The live ballot sits at poll.fm/17097510, which points to the latest ballot in the series.

The format is the familiar weekly athlete poll: a short list of nominees, each identified by name, school community and sport, and a single click to register support. Recent ballots have drawn nominees from communities including Petoskey, Charlevoix, Boyne City, East Jordan and Harbor Springs, across sports as varied as golf, softball, soccer and baseball. Because the ballot names high school students, this page deliberately describes nominees by community and sport rather than by individual.

For a supporter, the practical picture is simple. The sponsor supplies the branding and presumably the weekly nominee selection; Crowdsignal supplies the ballot technology; the community supplies the votes. There is no entry fee and no login wall on the ballot page.

Facts at a glance

The dated record: editions, seasons and the confirmed voting window

Confirmed editions of the program ran in 2023, 2025 and 2026. The series therefore qualifies as annual, though the published year list itself contains a gap between 2023 and 2025, and the ballot page does not explain whether a 2024 cycle ran quietly or not at all. The most recent confirmed year is 2026.

Within a season, ballots circulate from October through June. That span covers the fall sports playoffs, the entire winter season and most of the spring season, which is why recent ballots have mixed golf and softball nominees with soccer and baseball entries. The series evidence behind the season span counts 23 ballots dated across those months.

The clearest dated window in the series belongs to a recent ballot: voting was open from Monday, February 9, until 4 p.m. on Thursday, February 12. That midweek, afternoon-close pattern is the only close time the ballot material states, and there is no reason to assume every ballot in the series copies it exactly.

What the organizer has not published is the exact open and close schedule for the next ballot, or a full calendar of the season's windows. The current dates appear only on the ballot itself, so a supporter planning a push should read them off the live page rather than assuming the February pattern repeats.

How a supporter votes on the current ballot

Voting is a short, literal sequence. Open the ballot at poll.fm, read the nominee list, click the selection beside your chosen athlete and submit. The whole action happens on the Crowdsignal page with no account, no email step and no payment presented along the way. The voting URL always points at the latest ballot of the series, so if the page shows a poll-closed notice, the next ballot has not posted yet.

Deadlines matter more than on many polls because the confirmed window closed at 4 p.m. on a Thursday rather than at midnight. A supporter who waits for the evening risks missing the close entirely, which makes early sharing the sensible default for anyone rallying a school community.

Results are public. On the recent ballot, the leading entry finished with 54 percent of the vote on 12,627 votes, the runner-up held 45 percent on 10,607 votes, and a trailing entry drew 103 votes. Those published totals let a campaign see in real numbers whether its outreach is moving the needle, and they also show how lopsided a well-organized push can be on a small weekly ballot.

On the rules side, the ballot page prints no list of sports or classes and no stated ceiling on repeat voting, so any limit a supporter might wonder about has to be confirmed on the live ballot each cycle. Nothing on the page suggests a paid voting tier; the vote is free.

How this ballot sits beside its Michigan neighbours

Michigan has a crowded field of public-vote high school sports ballots, and most of them belong to news publishers rather than to a sponsoring business. The Ann Arbor-Area High School Football Player of the Week, the MLive Bay City-Area High School Football Player of the Week and the Flint-Area High School Football Player of the Week each answer to a publisher rather than to a commercial brand.

The same pattern holds for the Jackson-Area and MLive Kalamazoo-Area football polls, while the High School on SI Michigan Athlete of the Week takes a statewide view. The Moore Mechanical ballot differs on three axes: the brand behind it is a local business rather than a media outlet, the coverage area is the smaller northern Michigan cluster of communities around Petoskey, Charlevoix, Boyne City, East Jordan and Harbor Springs, and the ballot spans many sports across an October-to-June season instead of a single fall sport.

For a nominee's family, that shape matters. A vote earned here competes against a smaller, tighter community pool than a statewide ballot, so a handful of well-timed shares can move the published percentage visibly. For a business weighing sponsorship of similar programs, this ballot shows the model working under a commercial brand.