The Top Mental Game Girls Lacrosse Player of the Week: How Voting Works & How to Win

A training brand's lacrosse poll, not a newspaper award

Most weekly player ballots a New Jersey supporter encounters come from newsrooms. The Asbury Park Press High School Athlete of the Week, the Courier-Post South Jersey Girls Basketball Player of the Week and the NJ MileSplit Boys Performer of the Week are all media products, attached to coverage their publishers already produce. This program sits outside that pattern.

Top Mental Game runs the Girls Lacrosse Player of the Week, and the organizer is a sports training organization rather than a publisher. Its weekly award covers a single sport and a single gender, high school girls lacrosse, where the newspaper ballots sweep across every sport. That focus changes the shape of the audience: instead of a statewide general readership, the vote is carried by lacrosse families, program teammates and the school communities around towns such as Barnegat, Manasquan and Red Bank, whose programs supplied nominees on the recent ballot.

The host platform matches the smaller scale. Where press polls tend to run on their own branded voting systems, this ballot sits on Crowdsignal, the service behind poll.fm, at the direct address poll.fm/15562716. The question is short, the options are players listed by name and school, and the surrounding page asks supporters to give others the chance to vote. The facts below gather the fixed details of the program in one place.

The dated facts: two confirmed seasons and a closed May window

The program's confirmed history is short and specific. Edition years on file are 2022 and 2025, and that pair is what earns the program its annual standing. No page maintained by the organizer walks through the intervening seasons, so a reader who wants a complete year-by-year ledger will not find it published.

The live ballot belongs to the 2025 season. Its title carries the confirmed window in full: VOTE for the Top Mental Game Girls Lacrosse Player of the Week, May 21 through May 31, marked Poll Closed. Both endpoints of the window fall in May, which fits a weekly award running through the spring lacrosse season, and the slate behind that window was drawn from that season's set of seven ballots. The poll number, 15562716, identifies this specific ballot on Crowdsignal.

Beyond the window that has closed, Top Mental Game has not published the dates of the next voting or nomination round, the structure of any category roster beyond the weekly player question, or the rules governing per-supporter limits and eligibility; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. Until a fresh ballot appears at the poll.fm address, the May 21 through May 31 window is the last dated fact the program itself has published, and every other date a reader might want simply is not stated.

How a supporter votes on this ballot today

The voting act here is as plain as public polls get. A supporter opens the Crowdsignal poll at poll.fm/15562716, and the question is already in front of them, since the link serves the poll itself rather than a landing page. The nominees appear as a list, each entry pairing a player with her school, with recent slates drawing from programs such as Trinity Hall, Shore, Central, Rumson-Fair Haven, Barnegat, Manasquan and Red Bank.

Selecting a nominee sets the single radio choice, and the submit control at the bottom casts the vote. Crowdsignal returns a results view after submission, showing where the tally stood at that moment, which is the only published window into standings because the program posts no running leaderboard elsewhere. The ballot then closes with its share prompt, give others the chance to vote, and that prompt is the growth mechanism the organizer relies on rather than any paid or registered process.

What the page does not carry matters as much. There is no printed rule on repeat voting, no login step, no nomination form alongside the question, and no write-in option described. The mechanic is the mechanic: open the link, pick a player, submit, share. Anything a supporter expects beyond that sequence, whether a daily return is allowed or how a player earns a slate spot, has no published answer on the ballot itself.

Where this ballot sits among New Jersey weekly votes

Within the state's weekly voting circuit this program occupies a narrow lane. Its neighbours are broader: the New Jersey High School Boys Basketball Player of the Week and the New Jersey High School Football Player of the Week cover whole sports for whole seasons, the Jersey Sports Zone Football Game Ball rides weekly football coverage, and the Asbury Park Press ballot spans every athlete its newsroom covers. This poll covers girls lacrosse and nothing else, which concentrates its vote in a smaller, tighter community.

The publisher difference compounds that. A newsroom award borrows authority from its outlet's coverage and its print and web reach; a training brand's award borrows authority from its standing inside the sport it trains. For a lacrosse family in Monmouth County or along the Shore, the Top Mental Game name carries weight precisely because the brand works with the athletes on the ballot rather than merely writing about them.

Practically, the contrast shows up in the ballot itself. Newspaper polls sit on branded voting systems with editorial framing; this one sits on a bare Crowdsignal question with a share prompt. A supporter moving between the two should expect the same click, but a different tone: less newsroom, more team huddle, with the weekly result decided by whichever school community shares hardest that week.

Strengthening support in a small-school poll

Because this ballot's reach is the school community itself, effective support looks like organized sharing rather than volume. The ballot's own instruction, give others the chance to vote, points at the lever: team group chats, parent networks, the athletic department's accounts and alumni groups in towns like Manasquan or Barnegat can move a small poll faster than any broad appeal, since weekly tallies here are decided by hundreds of clicks rather than thousands.

Timing matters in a window that runs late May. A push on the final days, when the results view after each submission shows the gap, tends to concentrate a community's effort where it counts. On the rules side, the organizer publishes no statement about outside help, so the safe reading is the ballot's own: a free click, an honest share, and no manufactured traffic that a training brand might view as against the spirit of its award. Background on what paid support involves sits on the award votes page, and the legality question is treated separately there.