APP's Sophomore Girls Wrestler of the Year (Fan Vote): How Voting Works & How to Win

What is the APP's Sophomore Girls Wrestler of the Year vote?

The Asbury Park Press is a New Jersey newspaper publishing at app.com, and alongside its news coverage it puts reader polls to its Shore audience. One of those polls asked a single question during 2026: Who will be the APP's Sophomore Girls Wrestler of the Year? The ballot lived on Crowdsignal, the polling utility behind the publisher's poll.fm addresses, at https://poll.fm/17168082.

The format is a straight popularity honour. Every nominee on the list is a high school sophomore identified beside her school, and the question stays open until the publisher closes it, at which point the results view shows each finisher's share of the tally. There is no judging panel and no separate nomination form visible on the ballot; the option list itself, headed Poll Answers, is the whole field. The Press signs the question with its own APP shorthand, tying the vote to the brand readers already know from its sports desk.

Facts at a glance

Two further entries round out the list with school names that display only in part on the results view, so the roster below covers the communities the ballot names in full.

Schools named on the ballot

When did the vote run, and what did the final tally look like?

One edition of this programme is confirmed, and it belongs to 2026. The voting window fell in June of that year, and the ballot now carries a Poll Closed banner in its title, so the round has fully concluded.

The final standings make the outcome unusually clear for a publisher poll. The entry from New Egypt finished first with 11,039 votes, a 55 percent share of the tally shown on the results page. The remaining nominees appear in ranked order beneath the leader, each with its own slice of the vote, so the whole hierarchy is readable at a glance.

Several details sit outside the published page. Beyond the sophomore label in the question itself, no eligibility criteria appear, and because the Poll Answers list is the entire field, no wider category structure exists on the ballot. The publisher also printed no opening or closing calendar and no written rules block alongside the vote; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

This is the first confirmed edition; whether it returns next year is not yet published; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

How does a supporter cast a vote on this ballot?

Voting ran through the ballot's own page. A supporter opened https://poll.fm/17168082, read the question, and picked one nominee from the list, where each wrestler appears beside her school. Submitting the choice registers it and returns the percentage standings, so a voter sees immediately where the field stands.

How often one person could take part comes from the publisher's own coverage rather than from the ballot page: reporting on the Press's Shore girls wrestler polls describes the format as one that "allows for unlimited voting". That makes repeat visits the main lever a campaign holds, within whatever the live page permits on the day.

No sign-in screen forms part of the ballot as displayed; a visitor chooses and submits without setting anything up first. Whether a future round attaches extra requirements is not addressed anywhere on the page, so anyone voting in a later edition should read whatever the live question shows at that moment.

Supporters who want a fuller playbook for rallying people around a nominee can work from the guide to getting more votes online, then apply it to the way this ballot counts and displays its shares.

Where does this ballot fit among New Jersey reader votes?

New Jersey readers meet this ballot inside a busy family of public votes. The same state hosts the Asbury Park Press Readers' Choice, a wide multi-category survey the publisher runs for local businesses and services, alongside the community choice awards carried under the Best of Bergen banner, the Bergen & Morris Top Dentists list, the Best of Jersey Shore Contest, Best of New Jersey, and Jersey Bites Monmouth County Readers' Choice.

Against that backdrop the sophomore wrestler vote is narrower and more personal. Where the Readers' Choice style contests ask shoppers to pick favourite restaurants, dentists and services across many categories, this ballot asks one question about one age group in one sport, and its schools reach from Barnegat down through Monmouth County communities such as Freehold Borough and Colts Neck.

For anyone backing a nominee, the contrast comes down to focus. A category-heavy survey spreads attention across a town's businesses, so a single nominee competes with everything else in its class; here the entire electorate arrives to answer one question, and the percentage standings refresh on the same page. Anyone weighing the options statewide can pull up the full set of programmes under the New Jersey hub and compare mechanics side by side.

How can a campaign build support for a nominee on this ballot?

The ballot's shape points to a direct plan. Because the publisher's coverage describes unlimited voting, a campaign can keep returning with its people across the whole window, and because the results page shows percentages openly, everyone can see whether the effort is landing. Circulate the poll.fm link itself in team chats and parent groups rather than a screenshot, since the link lands voters straight on the live question.

Coverage of these wrestler polls also advises switching to a desktop browser whenever the publisher's app gets in the way, which is worth passing along to anyone who hits trouble mid-vote.

For campaigns weighing paid help alongside organised sharing, the general marketplace is described on this site's overview of buying votes online. Whatever a campaign spends, the publisher's posted rules outrank any vendor's pitch, and no vote service can guarantee an outcome on a public poll.