Player of the Year Winter Edition Boys Bowling: How Voting Works & How to Win

Who runs the Michigan boys bowling Player of the Year vote

Player of the Year Winter Edition Boys Bowling is a public-vote award that CatchMark SportsNet, the Michigan high school sports publisher behind catchmarksports.com, produces for its readers. The ballot covers boys bowling during the winter high school season, and the most recent edition carried nominees representing Mona Shores, Oakridge and Reeths-Puffer, with each player listed beside his school on the ballot.

The vote itself is hosted on Crowdsignal (poll.fm), and the voting address for this program is https://poll.fm/15173539. A supporter who opens that page sees every nominee with a running percentage and a raw count beside the name, which is how the publisher presents the standings to its audience while a poll is live.

CatchMark SportsNet frames this ballot as part of a wider Player of the Year series covering winter sports, and the boys bowling edition is the one this page documents. Because the publisher serves high school sports communities across Michigan rather than a single town, the audience for the bowling vote is that statewide readership, and supporters of Mona Shores, Oakridge, Reeths-Puffer and any school named on a future ballot all hold a stake in the outcome.

Facts about the CatchMark boys bowling ballot

The dated history behind the CatchMark bowling award

Confirmed editions of the boys bowling vote run in 2022 and 2025, and that pair of years makes the program an annual one rather than a single event. In both cycles the ballot sat inside the winter schedule, opening in December and closing by the end of February, which keeps the vote aligned with the Michigan high school bowling season it honors.

The most recent confirmed edition, poll 15173539, is listed as closed, and its printed result reads as follows: the leading nominee finished at 61% with 2,065 votes, the runner-up held 32% with 1,073 votes, and the remaining nominee took 8% with 262 votes, out of 3,400 votes cast in total. Every name on that ballot is attached to a Michigan high school, which is how the publisher frames the contest.

The gaps in the printed totals are as telling as the figures themselves. CatchMark SportsNet has published no nomination dates and no roster of award categories for the bowling vote; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. No schedule for a 2026 edition has been announced either, and no round dates for the polling platform appear in any promotion for this market, so the next window will show up on the organizer's own page when the publisher is ready to open it.

How a supporter votes in the boys bowling poll today

Voting in the CatchMark SportsNet boys bowling ballot takes a single visit. A supporter opens the page at poll.fm/15173539, reads the nominee list where each bowler appears with his school, a percentage and a raw count, selects the choice beside the player worth honoring and submits. The page recalculates the standings on the spot, so the effect of the choice is visible immediately.

The program takes the form of a plain public vote, and the ballot page describes no registration step, no entry form and no nomination round standing between a reader and the vote form. A supporter with the link can participate directly, which is why the publisher closes the ballot with an instruction about spreading it: the ballot itself tells visitors to give others the chance to vote by sharing the poll.

Because the 2025 edition is closed, a visitor today sees final results rather than an active choice. When CatchMark SportsNet opens the next edition, the same voting address will carry the live boys bowling ballot again, and the publisher's printed share prompt will apply to that cycle in turn. Anyone planning outreach around the vote should wait for that live form, since the organizer prints its rules, if any, on the ballot page itself rather than anywhere else.

Where this ballot sits among Michigan high school fan votes

This award belongs to a cluster of Michigan high school fan-vote programs documented on this site. The siblings include the Ann Arbor-Area, MLive Bay City-Area, Flint-Area, Jackson-Area and MLive Kalamazoo-Area football player-of-the-week ballots, together with the High School on SI Michigan Athlete of the Week.

The differences matter to a supporter deciding where to put energy. The weekly football ballots follow the fall season and reset every few days, so a nominee's window is measured in single weeks and a push has to land fast. The CatchMark SportsNet boys bowling vote is a season-closing honor instead: its window stretches across the winter months, which changes the campaign math, because a bowling nominee's community can build support over months rather than racing a single deadline.

The host differs too. The sibling ballots answer to MLive or to High School on SI, while this one answers to CatchMark SportsNet and its own coverage beat, so the nominees, the audience and the result all belong to that publisher's Michigan high school sports readership rather than to any other outlet's slate of weekly honors.

Building support for a nominee in the CatchMark bowling poll

The organizer's own guidance on growing support is printed on the ballot: "Give others the chance to vote. Share this poll", followed by the point that more votes make the result stronger. That tells supporters plainly that circulation is the lever the publisher expects them to pull, long before any paid option enters the picture.

For a nominee with a school community behind him, that means placing the poll link where Mona Shores, Oakridge or Reeths-Puffer families already gather, and doing it early in the December window rather than in its final days. Because the ballot shows a running tally, a shared link produces visible movement, and that visible movement is what makes supporters pass a bowling poll along. Free methods that fit this kind of open public ballot are gathered in the guide to getting more votes online.