The North Jersey Field Hockey Player of the Year: How Voting Works & How to Win

North Jersey's Field Hockey Player of the Year: program, organizer, platform

North Jersey organizes the North Jersey Field Hockey Player of the Year, a public fan vote that asks readers to pick a standout field hockey player from schools across the region. The ballot runs on Crowdsignal, reached at poll.fm, rather than on a standalone athletic-department page or a printed ballot.

Three editions of this poll are confirmed: 2022, 2025, and 2026. The two most recent ballots, 2025 and 2026, both fell within June, giving the series a recognizable, if recently resumed, shape after the gap between 2022 and 2025. The 2026 ballot linked below has already closed for its own season; a fresh poll.fm address opens once North Jersey builds the next one.

The dated record: three editions, a resumed June pattern

2022 is the earliest confirmed year for this North Jersey field hockey vote. No 2023 or 2024 edition is confirmed anywhere in what's published, then the series resumes with back-to-back ballots in 2025 and 2026, both timed to June. That gap matters for anyone guessing at a fixed autumn schedule from the sport itself: field hockey in New Jersey is typically a fall season, yet the two most recently confirmed ballots for this particular poll both ran in June, months after the season these players actually competed in.

A per-voter limit, an entry roster broken into categories, and a fixed nomination window before voting opens are not printed on the North Jersey field hockey ballot page. The next edition's own web address and its opening date are not yet published either; confirm on the live ballot each cycle once North Jersey announces the following season's poll.

How a supporter votes in the North Jersey ballot today

The North Jersey Field Hockey Player of the Year runs as a single embedded Crowdsignal poll rather than a multi-page bracket. A supporter opens the ballot at poll.fm, reviews the field hockey players North Jersey has put forward for that edition, and selects one name before the poll registers the choice. Once the window for that edition closes, as it already has for the 2026 ballot linked here, the page stops accepting new selections until North Jersey builds the next one.

Nothing published for this series spells out how many times one supporter may select an answer, whether the same device can vote more than once, or what happens if North Jersey flags unusual activity on a given ballot. Until North Jersey prints that rule somewhere a reader can check, a supporter deciding how hard to push a campaign is working from the mechanic alone, not from a stated cap.

Where this ballot sits among New Jersey's other prep-sports polls

Six other New Jersey prep-sports polls sit in the same directory as North Jersey's field hockey ballot, and every one answers to a separate publisher covering a separate sport or region. Asbury Park Press High School Athlete of the Week and Courier-Post South Jersey Girls Basketball Player of the Week both cover different areas of the state under different mastheads, neither one folding field hockey results into North Jersey's own count.

Jersey Sports Zone Football Game Ball and New Jersey High School Boys Basketball Player of the Week sit on the boys-sports side of the state's poll landscape, while New Jersey High School Football Player of the Week and NJ MileSplit Boys Performer of the Week round out the football and track entries in the same directory. None of these six shares a ballot, a vote count, or a set of rules with North Jersey's field hockey poll; a strong showing in one carries no weight in another.

Building support for a North Jersey field hockey nominee

Because the North Jersey Field Hockey Player of the Year runs as one Crowdsignal ballot rather than a bracket, the only lever a supporter has is getting more real people to open poll.fm and make a selection before that edition's window closes. North Jersey's page does not publish a stated position on outside vote-promotion services one way or the other for this poll, so no claim about what North Jersey allows or forbids belongs on this page beyond what it actually prints.

What is worth doing before assuming anything: read whatever rules text appears directly on the live poll.fm ballot, since that is the only place North Jersey could change its own terms between editions. Building real momentum for an online ballot covers organizing a legitimate push for a single-poll vote like this one.