The All-CNY Girls Soccer Small School Player of the Year: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the All-CNY Girls Soccer Small School Player of the Year is

This All-CNY award is decided by a public vote. All-CNY runs it, and the ballot lives on Crowdsignal (poll.fm) rather than on an organizer-owned site. The award covers girls soccer at small schools in New York, which is the only state this program is tied to. Supporter participation is the whole mechanic: the organizer puts the nominees on a single-question poll and lets readers decide.

Because the program is built for small school communities, the nominee field looks different from big-school city ballots. The 2024 edition drew nominees from places such as Marcellus, Cincinnatus, Poland and LaFargeville, the kind of communities where a player of the year nod carries real weight locally and where a shared poll link can reach most of a school's soccer following in an evening.

For a supporter or a nominee's family, the practical picture is simple. One link, one question, one vote button, and a results view that anyone can check. Everything the organizer wants from a voter happens on that single Crowdsignal page, and everything a campaign needs to share is that same URL.

When the All-CNY small school girls soccer vote runs

Three editions of this award are confirmed: 2023, 2024 and 2025. The program is annual, and each edition's voting window falls in January, which puts the vote after the fall girls soccer season in New York has finished and its statistical picture is complete. That January rhythm is the dated spine of the whole program, and it is why nominee communities tend to plan their outreach for the turn of the year rather than midseason.

What All-CNY has not published is the precise shape of that window. Neither an opening day nor a closing day appears on the ballot, and no nomination round dates are printed for this award either; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. A supporter who wants to vote in the first hours of a new edition therefore has to watch for the poll link rather than plan against a published calendar.

The per-supporter rules sit in the same unpublished bucket. Nothing on the ballot caps votes, sets a daily-return rule, or spells out who may take part. None of that changes how a first vote works, but it does mean a campaign cannot point to a published cap when planning how hard to push. The live poll in January is the only place any of those details would appear for the current edition.

How a supporter votes on the All-CNY girls soccer poll

The mechanic asks little of anyone. To take part, a supporter loads the Crowdsignal ballot for the current edition, reads the single question naming the Girls Soccer Small School Player of the Year, and sees the nominee list underneath it. Each nominee is shown with her school community, so the 2024 ballot paired its players with Marcellus, Cincinnatus, Poland and LaFargeville. Selecting a nominee and pressing Vote submits the pick.

Two details of the mechanic matter to anyone running support for a nominee. First, the poll shows a View Results link on the same page, so the standing is visible to every visitor without logging in anywhere. That transparency is useful mid-campaign because it tells a school community whether its push is landing before the January window closes. Second, no account is requested, an email confirmation step is not shown, and no per-person frequency rule is printed. The friction floor is as low as public polls get, which is precisely what makes a shared direct link effective here.

The literal sequence for the current edition is: open the poll.fm link, pick a nominee, press Vote, and view the results if you want the standing. Every later January edition has run on the same host in the same shape, so the steps a supporter learns this season carry over to the next ballot.

How this ballot sits beside other New York player votes

New York has a crowded field of reader-voted high school sports honors, and this award is distinct from its neighbours in three ways. It is a player of the year, not a player of the week, so the ballot resolves a whole season rather than a single week of performance. It is scoped to girls soccer specifically, and to the small school classification within that sport. And it is run under the All-CNY name, a central New York awards brand, while most of the state's other public votes belong to different publishers.

The neighbouring programs a reader may also encounter include the Buffalo News Prep Talk Girls Athlete of the Week, the Hudson Valley New York High School Football Player of the Week, and the Lohud Girls Basketball Player of the Week. Football-leaning readers have the lohud Boys Basketball Player of the Week, the New York High School Football Player of the Week and the New York Section 1 High School Football Player of the Week.

What that comparison buys a supporter is expectation-setting. Weekly awards reward a fast, repeated push; a January player of the year ballot rewards one concentrated campaign while its window is open, on a poll whose results everyone can watch.

Strengthening support for an All-CNY small school nominee

Because this ballot is a single-question public vote on Crowdsignal, support work reduces to moving people to one link in January. The communities that succeed treat the poll.fm URL as the campaign: post it where the school's soccer families already gather, name the nominee and her community so nobody has to guess which circle to fill, and use the visible View Results standing to time reminders while the window is open.

All-CNY has not printed rules on the ballot page about outside help, paid support or automation, so a campaign that wants to stay clearly inside the organizer's expectations has nothing published to lean on. The safe reading is that anything the ordinary Vote button supports is ordinary participation, and anything beyond it is unaddressed. Tactics that stay on the right side of that line, from share templates to reminder timing, are set out in how to get more votes online, and the buying question is covered at buying award votes.