The North Jersey Boys Lacrosse Player of the Year: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the North Jersey Boys Lacrosse Player of the Year is and who runs it

The North Jersey Boys Lacrosse Player of the Year is an honor that North Jersey, the publisher behind northjersey.com, decides by fan ballot within its high school sports desk. Its own promotion for the wider program reads, "VOTE for the North Jersey Players of the Year in 33 high school sports," which places boys lacrosse inside a large family of season awards rather than a standalone contest. The award covers boys lacrosse in the North Jersey coverage area of New Jersey, and the ballot puts one question to readers: who should be the North Jersey Boys Lacrosse Player of the Year?

The vote lives on poll.fm, the Crowdsignal polling platform that carries the whole series. The current lacrosse ballot sits at https://poll.fm/17109017 under the poll number 17109017. That link is the latest ballot in the series, and it is the address this page treats as the program's voting URL.

The nominees are high school players named individually on the ballot, each listed beside the school he represents. Schools appearing on the 2026 lacrosse ballot include Ridgewood, West Milford, Ramapo, Bergen Catholic, Don Bosco, Pascack Valley, Ramsey and Mahwah, which gives a picture of the geographic spread the award draws from: suburban districts across the North Jersey region rather than a single conference.

Facts at a glance

The dated record for this boys lacrosse ballot

Three lacrosse editions are confirmed: 2022, 2025 and 2026. The 2022 evidence comes from the program's own notes, and the 2025 and 2026 editions are evidenced by ballots on the poll.fm series. The intervening years, 2023 and 2024, are simply not evidenced either way on this page, and the publisher's own materials have not settled the question of when the lacrosse ballot first appeared.

The voting window falls somewhere in the March to June stretch for each lacrosse edition, which tracks the New Jersey high school boys lacrosse season. No exact opening day or closing day has been printed for any edition, and the 2026 ballot now carries a closed marker on its title. A supporter looking toward 2027 has nothing published to work from; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

The closed 2026 ballot does show a final tally. The leading nominee finished with 63 percent of the vote, and the runner-up held 19 percent. Those figures are the only numbers the ballot page publishes about the result, and they give a sense of how decisive a winning margin in this poll can be when the window shuts.

The operational detail a campaigner actually needs is absent from the publisher's page: no category roster beyond the lone award question appears there, and nothing sets out a per-supporter ceiling, a rule on daily returns, or who counts as eligible; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. That silence is the recurring problem for anyone planning support around this award, and it is why the live ballot, not any summary, is the document to trust in the moment.

How a supporter votes on the poll.fm ballot

Casting a ballot is a short exercise. A supporter opens the lacrosse poll at https://poll.fm/17109017, reads the one question, who should be the North Jersey Boys Lacrosse Player of the Year, and selects the radio button beside the name of the nominee they support. Each choice is presented as a player's name with his school underneath it, so a voter from Ridgewood or Mahwah can find their own player quickly on a list that runs to a handful of names.

After selecting a choice, the supporter presses the button at the foot of the form to log the vote. The lacrosse ballot carries no account requirement and no instructions about coming back on later days, so the visible process is select and submit. Anything the platform does behind that form, such as limiting repeat submissions, is not described by the organizer and only shows itself in practice.

On this ballot, when a supporter acts matters more than how. The 2026 lacrosse edition is closed and no longer accepts selections, so a visit to the link today is useful for reading the result, not for casting a vote. When the next boys lacrosse ballot opens, presumably in the March to June stretch that the editions on file have followed, the same address pattern on poll.fm will carry the new poll and the tally will reset to zero for every nominee.

Because the organizer publishes no rules text, the practical advice for a supporter is to read the live ballot before doing anything else. The instructions printed there that cycle, whatever they say about frequency or verification, are the ones that count, and they are the only instructions the publisher has issued.

How this ballot sits beside its New Jersey neighbours

North Jersey's boys lacrosse award is one of several public votes covering high school sport in the state, and the differences between them are worth understanding before a supporter spreads effort across them. The Asbury Park Press High School Athlete of the Week runs on a weekly rhythm at the Shore, while this program is one season-closing decision taken inside a March to June window.

Other siblings cover different sports and different publishers. The Courier-Post South Jersey Girls Basketball Player of the Week serves the southern part of the state, and the Jersey Sports Zone Football Game Ball is a football-specific vote. Two more, the New Jersey High School Boys Basketball Player of the Week and the New Jersey High School Football Player of the Week, run statewide on winter and fall sports respectively.

The NJ MileSplit Boys Performer of the Week is the closest in spirit for spring sports readers, though it honors weekly track performances rather than a whole-season award. What makes the North Jersey lacrosse ballot distinct is its publisher's scale: with 33 high school sports in the wider Players of the Year program, northjersey.com treats these votes as a coordinated awards season, and the lacrosse ballot is one piece of that larger editorial effort.

For a nominee's supporters, the practical consequence is focus. A weekly award rewards repeated mobilization; this one rewards a single concentrated push inside a spring window, aimed at a school community that already follows North Jersey lacrosse coverage.

Strengthening support in this specific ballot

Support for the North Jersey Boys Lacrosse Player of the Year works differently from a weekly athlete poll because the window is short and the audience is defined by school loyalty. The lacrosse ballot lists players from schools such as Ridgewood, Don Bosco and Bergen Catholic, so the natural base of votes is each school's own community: parents, teammates and alumni who already read northjersey.com's lacrosse coverage.

The organizer's promotion for the wider Players of the Year program invites readers to vote across 33 high school sports, which means the publisher itself drives traffic to these ballots. A nominee's campaign should ride that traffic rather than fight it: circulate the poll.fm address in the same week the publisher's article announcing the lacrosse nominees goes live, when interest in the award is at its peak.

Because the lacrosse ballot prints nothing on frequency or outside help, a campaigner's safest ground is the visible mechanic: a public form that any visitor can use. Methods for widening reach without guessing at unpublished limits are set out in our guide to getting more votes online, and the general question of paid support is treated at our award votes page. Even so, no outside help of any kind can promise a result in a poll the publisher tallies on its own platform, and the organizer's silence on rules is not permission to assume any practice is welcome.