AGR Boys Athlete of the Year Presented by Faber Builders: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the AGR Boys Athlete of the Year award is and who runs it

The AGR Boys Athlete of the Year Presented by Faber Builders is a single-question public vote that crowns one boys high school athlete in New York for the season. AGR runs the program, and Faber Builders holds the presenting sponsorship that appears right in the ballot's title. The award sits in the sport vertical, and its mechanic is the simplest one in this space: a plain public vote where the option with the most support wins.

The ballot lives on Crowdsignal's poll.fm platform, the same service many regional publishers use for reader polls. The voting address is poll.fm/15738060, and the question reads exactly: Who is AGR Boys Athlete of the Year presented by Faber Builders? The organizer's own story embeds the poll at the bottom of the article, which is how supporters reach it.

Because it is a boys athlete of the year award rather than a weekly honor, the ballot asks readers to weigh an entire season's body of work instead of a single game. The nominee list pairs each player with the New York school he represents, drawing from programs across the state's high school sections.

Confirmed editions and the 2026 voting window

Two editions of the AGR boys award are confirmed: 2023 and 2025. Those two years are the basis for treating the program as annual, and they make 2026 the next expected run. No edition is confirmed for 2024, and nothing published explains the gap between the two confirmed years.

The live cycle runs on a July voting phase. AGR's story stated the poll remains open until 8 p.m. on Aug. 2, 2026, which is the one dated close attached to this program. The ballot's title carried a poll closed marker after that point, and the leading tally on the closed ballot stood at 47 percent on 28,056 votes, a turnout figure that shows how heavily the school communities pushed their players.

Several facts about the cycle are not printed anywhere by the organizer. AGR has not published the exact day voting opened, the method for choosing nominees, or any rules text on repeat voting or eligibility. The platform's promotion listings hold no round dates for this market either. Anyone who needs the opening day, the nomination process, or the per-person voting rule has to read those details off the live ballot each cycle.

What the published facts do establish is a rhythm: a midsummer ballot, a stated close in early August, and a result tallied on the Crowdsignal page itself. Everything beyond that is AGR's to print or withhold.

How to vote in the AGR Boys Athlete of the Year poll today

Voting in the AGR Boys Athlete of the Year Presented by Faber Builders takes under a minute. Open the ballot at poll.fm/15738060, either by typing the address or by following the vote link inside AGR's story on the award. The Crowdsignal page loads with the full question and the nominee list beneath it.

Each option pairs a boys high school player with his New York school, so a supporter can find the right athlete by name or by the program he plays for. Select the radio button beside that nominee, then press the vote button to log the choice. The page updates to show the running tally across all options, which is how the 47 percent leading share on the most recent ballot became visible to everyone who voted.

Three practical points follow from the ballot's shape. First, there is no sign-in step printed on the poll, so the vote goes through directly in the browser. Second, the question is a single award, not a category menu, so there is exactly one choice to make per visit. Third, AGR's story stated the poll stays open until 8 p.m. on Aug. 2, 2026, which set the deadline for this cycle's support. Anyone planning a second visit should simply return to the same address and see whether the ballot still accepts a choice.

How this ballot sits beside New York's other athlete votes

New York carries a dense set of public-vote high school programs, and the AGR boys award is distinguished by its scope and its sponsor. Where the weekly honors reset every seven days, this ballot names one athlete of the year for an entire season, and Faber Builders' presenting sponsorship puts a commercial partner's name in the title itself.

The nearest neighbours on this site are all New York programs in the same sport vertical. The Buffalo News Prep Talk Girls Athlete of the Week runs a weekly girls honor out of Buffalo. The Hudson Valley New York High School Football Player of the Week serves that region's football readers. The lohud Boys Basketball Player of the Week and the Lohud Girls Basketball Player of the Week cover basketball by gender in the Lower Hudson Valley.

Statewide football has two more entries: the New York High School Football Player of the Week and the New York Section 1 High School Football Player of the Week, the latter scoped to a single section rather than the whole state.

The difference for a supporter is cadence and stakes. A weekly player of the week vote rewards fast mobilization inside a few days. AGR's athlete of the year ballot rewards a longer campaign, with a stated close at 8 p.m. on Aug. 2, 2026 giving a campaign a fixed target date.

Strengthening support for an AGR nominee

Because this ballot is one question with a fixed close, support building is a concentration game. The mechanic rewards getting the poll.fm link in front of the nominee's school community early and often: team group chats, the school's parent networks, and the athletic department's own channels all move votes for a season-long award in a way they never could for a one-day poll.

AGR has printed no rules text on outside help for this ballot, so there is no organizer statement to lean on either way. What a campaign can control is honest reach: every share of the ballot link, every reminder before the Aug. 2 close, and every teammate who asks their own family to vote adds real support without touching anything the organizer might object to.

For a broader playbook that applies to any public-vote award, the get more votes guide covers outreach, timing and reminder cadence in detail. Read it alongside the ballot itself, since the live Crowdsignal page is the only place any voting rule for this program will ever appear.