Vote for Seacoast boys lacrosse Preseason Player of the Year: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Seacoast boys lacrosse preseason ballot is and who runs it

Under the Seacoast name, high school boys lacrosse fans pick a preseason player of the year through an open ballot. Crowdsignal carries the vote through its poll.fm domain, and the market is the Seacoast region of New Hampshire, with the nominee list drawing on high school programs in towns such as Portsmouth, Exeter and Dover.

The vertical is sport, and the program takes the shape of one award, not a multi-category contest: one question, one list of nominees, one winner chosen by whoever turns out to vote. Each nominee appears on the ballot with a school, a class year and a position, which is how supporters identify the player they want to back. Because it is a preseason ballot, it lands before the spring season is underway, which is why the voting window sits in April.

The mechanic is public-vote in the plainest sense: any visitor to the ballot page can select a nominee and submit, with no nomination round and no gatekeeping step described on the page. That makes turnout the whole game. A player whose school community shares the link widely can win it, and a player with no organized push can lose it despite strong play, because nothing on the ballot weighs skill.

The dated record for this lacrosse vote

This program's confirmed editions fall in 2022, 2025 and 2026. The gap between the first and second is wider than a strict annual run would suggest, so the honest description is a recurring preseason ballot that has run in those years rather than an unbroken streak. The recurrence field marks it annual, and the next edition would fall in 2027 if the pattern holds.

The voting window falls in April. That is the month the confirmed ballots belong to, which fits a preseason award published as the lacrosse season begins. What the ballot does not print is the exact opening and closing date for any cycle, and no nomination round is described anywhere on the page. The ballot also prints no roster of award categories and no rule on repeat voting by the same person; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Two practical consequences follow. First, a supporter who finds the ballot outside April is most likely looking at a closed poll from the prior spring, since the page title carries a closed marker between cycles. Second, anyone planning a support push has no published deadline to work toward, only the April pattern. Only the live page shows whether the current poll is accepting votes, because Seacoast does not circulate a dated schedule ahead of the season.

How a supporter votes in the Seacoast lacrosse poll today

Few ballots are simpler to use. A supporter loads poll.fm/16834315, reads the nominee list, selects one player and submits. Crowdsignal presents the nominees with their school, class and position, so a voter who follows Seacoast lacrosse can find the right name quickly, and a voter who does not can still identify a player by school or position.

No login is required on this ballot, and no nomination step sits in front of the vote. The submission ends on a results view, which is how Crowdsignal confirms the choice was accepted. That results screen is also the only place a supporter sees standing, since the ballot does not publish a running leaderboard outside the vote flow.

Two things to know before voting. The ballot is single choice in the format presented, so a supporter picks one nominee per submission rather than ranking players. And between seasons the same URL can show a closed poll from the prior cycle, which is why the page title carries a closed marker. A vote submitted to a closed ballot does not count in the next edition, so the timing check matters more here than on ballots that run year round. When the new preseason arrives, the live page carries the fresh nominee list and the vote control becomes active again.

Where this ballot sits among New Hampshire fan votes

This lacrosse ballot is one of several New Hampshire high school fan votes carried on the same Crowdsignal platform. Its neighbours include the New Hampshire High School Baseball Player of the Week, the Football Player of the Week, and the Girls Basketball Player of the Week.

Two more sit in the same family: the Miss Basketball and Mr. Basketball awards, and the combined Girls Soccer and Volleyball Player of the Week. All are sport verticals aimed at New Hampshire high school audiences.

What makes the lacrosse ballot different is its shape. The weekly player-of-the-week programs run as recurring short windows through a season, while this one is a single preseason award with one winner per edition. Its market is also narrower: it speaks to the Seacoast region specifically, with nominees drawn from area high schools, rather than covering the whole state under one banner. For a supporter, that means a smaller, more concentrated electorate where school community turnout decides the result, and a vote window that arrives once a year in April rather than week after week.

Supporting a nominee the right way in this poll

Because this ballot is a single-choice fan vote with a small, geographically concentrated electorate, the support that moves the result is the kind that reaches lacrosse people directly: team group chats, school parent networks, youth lacrosse clubs in Portsmouth, Exeter and Dover, and local followers of the spring season. Sharing the poll.fm link with a short personal note outperforms posting it cold, because the nominee list means more to someone who knows the players.

Seacoast has not printed a rule about outside help or automated voting on this ballot, so there is no published line to point to. What is published is the format itself, and any push that depends on repeated mechanical submissions sits outside what a single-choice public ballot is designed to measure. The safe play is breadth: more distinct supporters, reached once, before the April window closes.

If you are weighing purchased support, read our award votes page first for how these ballots work, and remember that no service, ours included, can promise a win in a turnout-driven vote like this one.