New Hampshire High School Football Player of the Week: How Voting Works & How to Win

What this poll does not tell you — and why that matters

Start with the gap. High School on SI does not publish vote totals or percentages for the New Hampshire poll. You will not find a "Cole Duncan won with 38.4% of the vote" write-up anywhere — only the name, surfacing as "last week's winner" in the next article. That is the structural reality of this ballot, and it changes how you think about running a campaign here.

Without published totals, there is no public scoreboard mid-week. A supporter cannot watch the numbers and decide whether the race is close. The only signal is silence — the poll closes Sunday night, and the winner appears the following week. That compression favors whoever mobilizes first and keeps going through Sunday, not whoever surges at the end after reading that their candidate is down three hundred votes. Those numbers never appear.

What the confirmed data does tell you: the field is genuinely wide. The September 10, 2025 ballot carried twelve nominees — Serafin Agramonte from Kingswood in Carroll County, Tyson DiPaola and John Frisbee both from Stevens in Claremont, Brody Helton and Bennett Matthews both from Bedford, Cody Jackson and Josh Tripp from Nashua South, Ryland Raudelunas from Souhegan, Colin Savard from Concord, and Ollie Service from Trinity in Manchester. Twelve candidates from eight schools, spread from the Lakes Region to the Merrimack Valley. In a twelve-name field with no published totals, concentration is the only lever available.

Three weeks of confirmed ballots: what the nominee patterns show

Three confirmed ballot weeks from 2025 give enough data to see a pattern.

A few things emerge from looking at those three weeks together. Bedford placed a nominee on two of the three confirmed ballots — Brody Helton in Week 1, Bennett Matthews in both Week 1 and Week 6. Winnacunnet put two players on the October 13 ballot in the same week: Sullivan Duffy and Sean Griffin. Kingswood's Serafin Agramonte showed up in Week 1 and again in Week 6. So while the ballot changes every week, a small set of programs produces nominees repeatedly.

That pattern means those schools' fan communities face a recurring question: when your player appears again, do you have a faster way to move people to the poll than you did the last time? The community that answers that question — building a list, a group chat that stays active, a booster page with enough reach — wins more of the close weeks.

And the NHIAA division structure does not filter the field. Division I contenders from Bedford and Londonderry share the same ballot as smaller-division programs from Hillsboro-Deering, Campbell, and Plymouth. Pinkerton Academy, the 2024 Division I champion that beat Londonderry 42-7 in the title game, routinely produces ballot-worthy performances. But Hollis-Brookline — not a Division I power — won the week before October 13. Division labels stop mattering the moment the poll opens.

Running a Sunday campaign in New Hampshire's geography

New Hampshire's fan-vote geography is different from a dense metro state. The confirmed nominee schools range from Hampton on the seacoast (Winnacunnet) to Claremont in the Connecticut River Valley (Stevens), with stops in Derry (Pinkerton), Manchester, Nashua, Concord, and smaller towns in between. That spread is real: a family driving from Kingswood in Wolfeboro to a Plymouth away game already knows the state is not small in driving terms.

What that means for a Sunday campaign: there is no single media hub or regional booster scene you can target. The networks are school-specific and local. The most effective pattern from what the ballot data shows is simple — the school with the most centralized and activated community, not the largest enrollment, tends to produce the winner. Hollis-Brookline winning the week before October 13 is the clearest example on record.

Saturday evening to Sunday afternoon is the full mobilization window. The poll typically posts after the weekend's games are in and closes Sunday night. A player's immediate network — teammates, the school's football parents group, the booster association — is the fastest first circle. A link that lands in those places Saturday night, with one reminder sent Sunday around noon, covers the decisive hours. For nominees from schools where the parent and alumni networks are harder to organize on short notice, structured vote-support campaigns can provide a reliable baseline across that Sunday window.

For background on how weekly fan-vote polls work across different platforms, the how-to guide covers the general cadence. More New Hampshire contest guides are at /usa/new-hampshire/, and the full national directory is at /usa/.