The Atlantic City Electric South Jersey Lacrosse Player of the Week: How Voting Works & How to Win

A lacrosse-only ballot in a market full of football polls

New Jersey already has plenty of public-vote high school programs, and nearly all of them orbit football or basketball. The New Jersey High School Football Player of the Week, the Jersey Sports Zone Football Game Ball and the New Jersey High School Boys Basketball Player of the Week all cover the headline sports. This ballot is the odd one out: it covers lacrosse only, and it runs in a spring window when the football ballots are dormant.

The second difference is the name on the masthead. Where the Asbury Park Press High School Athlete of the Week carries a newspaper brand, this series runs under Atlantic City Electric South Jersey, a sponsor name rather than a publisher. Crowdsignal at poll.fm carries the ballot, the same platform behind the other weekly polls in this market, at the address https://poll.fm/17041538.

The third difference is geography. The program names South Jersey in its title, and the schools that have appeared on its ballots confirm that footprint: Haddonfield, Moorestown, Ocean City, Cedar Creek and Oakcrest all belong to this series' ballot history. That puts it alongside the Courier-Post South Jersey Girls Basketball Player of the Week as a South Jersey ballot, rather than a statewide one like NJ MileSplit Boys Performer of the Week.

Facts at a glance

The dated record: which seasons are confirmed and when the window falls

Three edition years belong to this program: 2022, 2025 and 2026. The 2022 entry stands apart from the recent run, and the 2025 and 2026 seasons together are documented across ten ballots on the poll.fm host, which is what establishes the series as an annual spring fixture rather than a single experiment. If the pattern holds, 2027 brings the next edition.

The voting window falls in April and May. That placement matches the New Jersey high school lacrosse calendar, where the regular season builds through April and the state tournament runs into late May, and it is the reason this ballot is live at the opposite end of the school year from the football programs it shares this page with. The ten documented ballots spread across those months in the 2025 and 2026 seasons, consistent with a weekly rhythm through the spring.

The fine print is the part the organizer leaves off the page. No round of the lacrosse series carries printed opening or closing dates, a category structure, or a per-supporter rule; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The same applies to nomination timing: nothing on the ballot distinguishes a nomination phase from the voting phase, so the safest reading is that each weekly ballot is a single voting round.

For supporters planning outreach, the practical takeaway is the season shape rather than any date. The series is live for a stretch of spring weeks, each round closes and is replaced by the next, and a player nominated in April competes in a different round from a player nominated in May.

How a supporter votes on the current lacrosse ballot

Voting here takes no more than a minute. A supporter opens the poll.fm ballot for the current week, reads the list of nominated lacrosse players, taps the circle beside a name and submits. There is no form to fill in, no essay, no photo entry. The ballot title asks a single question, who the Atlantic City Electric South Jersey Lacrosse Player of the Week is, and the answer options are the week's nominees.

Because this is a weekly series, the ballot at the voting URL is the latest round of the season, and earlier rounds close as new ones open. A closed ballot displays its result rather than accepting further selections, which is why a supporter who arrives late in the week may find the page showing an outcome instead of a list. The fix is simply to return when the next round posts.

The nominee lists are drawn from South Jersey lacrosse programs. Schools that have appeared on this series' ballots include Haddonfield, Moorestown, Ocean City, Cedar Creek and Oakcrest, and the mix changes from week to week as the season progresses. A supporter looking for a particular player should check the live list rather than assume last week's nominees carry over.

No rule text accompanies the ballot. Whether the poll accepts repeated selections, whether it filters by address, and whether a sign-in is required are not stated on the page; the live ballot enforces whatever applies in the current round. Supporters who want the mechanics of weekly school polls in general can compare this ballot with the Asbury Park Press athlete ballot, which runs the same open fan-vote shape under a newspaper masthead.

Where this ballot sits among its New Jersey neighbours

Every sibling New Jersey program linked from this page is a sport ballot, but they divide cleanly by season and by publisher. The football programs, the statewide football player of the week and the Jersey Sports Zone game ball vote, run in the fall. The basketball programs, the Courier-Post girls ballot and the statewide boys ballot, run in the winter. The NJ MileSplit boys performer vote tracks track and field across its own calendar. This lacrosse series owns the spring.

That seasonal position matters for supporters. A South Jersey lacrosse family looking for a fan vote in April and May has essentially this ballot and nothing else in the local set, which concentrates community attention. In November the same families would find no lacrosse option at all, because none of the sibling programs covers spring sports.

The sponsor structure also separates it. The Press, Courier-Post, Jersey Sports Zone and MileSplit ballots all carry media brands, so their reach comes from readership. The Atlantic City Electric South Jersey series borrows a utility sponsorship name instead, and its reach comes from the schools themselves: Haddonfield, Moorestown, Ocean City, Cedar Creek and the other programs whose supporters drive each week's result.

For a reader comparing options, the practical test is the sport and the season. If the question is lacrosse in South Jersey during the spring, this is the matching ballot; the six sibling routes above answer football, basketball and track questions instead.

Strengthening support in a weekly spring lacrosse poll

Weekly school polls reward mobilization speed. In this series each round lives for a short stretch of the April to May window, so support built early in the week outperforms support gathered the night before the ballot closes. The schools that appear on these ballots, Haddonfield and Moorestown among them, tend to have organized parent communities, and that organization is what a weekly format converts into results.

The organizer publishes no rules text on the ballot page, so nothing on the page says what outside help is or is not permitted in the lacrosse series. The honest position is that the live ballot enforces whatever applies, and a campaign that depends on rules nobody has printed is a gamble. Visible community outreach, sharing the poll.fm link through team group chats and asking families directly, never depends on unpublished rules.

For readers weighing paid support against organic outreach, the general trade-offs are covered on our guide to getting more votes online, and the pricing question is separate from the rules question entirely. What holds in every case: the result is decided by the count on the poll.fm ballot, and the count is decided by whoever shows up during that week's round.