The Lohud Boys Lacrosse Player of the Week: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the lohud Boys Lacrosse Player of the Week is and who runs it

The Lohud Boys Lacrosse Player of the Week is a reader award that The Journal News publishes through lohud.com, its New York news brand, for high school boys lacrosse. The ballot asks a direct question, Who is the lohud Boys Lacrosse Player of the Week?, and readers answer it by choosing among nominated players. Each nominee appears beside a school name, so the ballot doubles as an honor roll for the players and programs that lohud covers during the lacrosse season.

Crowdsignal provides the hosting through its poll.fm service, and the ballot address is https://poll.fm/15337886. That page currently carries a closed status, because the latest boys lacrosse window has ended. What the mechanic asks of a reader is a plain public vote: open the page, pick a nominee and submit, and the results appear as percentages beside each school. No purchase and no fee are mentioned anywhere on the ballot.

The core facts of the program sit in a compact table:

Taken together, the table and the ballot page describe a small, focused award: a single sport, a single question and a publisher that runs the format across several sports, as the related ballots below show.

The dated history of the lohud boys lacrosse ballot

The earliest confirmed edition of the lohud boys lacrosse vote is 2019. Further confirmed editions ran in 2022, 2023 and 2025, which makes the program annual in shape even though the year list has gaps. The Journal News has not published an explanation for the missing years.

The confirmed voting windows fall between April and May, which places the ballot inside the high school boys lacrosse season in New York rather than beside the football ballots that occupy other parts of the school year.

The ballot at poll.fm/15337886 currently shows a closed status. On that closed ballot, the leading nominee finished at 56 percent, the runner-up at 13 percent and the third finisher at 11 percent, a spread that shows how quickly a lohud lacrosse vote can concentrate behind a single school's player.

Start days, finish days, the category list and any ceiling on how often the same reader may back a lohud lacrosse nominee all go unprinted by The Journal News; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Because the ballot is closed, a supporter who arrives today cannot log a vote in this edition; the next lohud lacrosse ballot is the place where a vote will count. Following the annual pattern of the confirmed years, a 2026 ballot would be the next cycle.

How a supporter votes on the lohud boys lacrosse ballot

Voting in the lohud Boys Lacrosse Player of the Week is a short sequence on the Crowdsignal page. A supporter loads the poll.fm address, reads the question at the top of the page, and reviews the nominee list, where each player is paired with a school. The vote itself is a selection: pick the nominee, submit the choice, and the page returns the running percentages.

The ballot does not spell out an account policy, so the poll.fm page itself is the authority on what a supporter must do while the vote is live. The same goes for repeat voting: the page prints no rule about how often the same supporter may return to the lohud boys lacrosse poll, so anyone planning a daily visit is working without a published rule.

When to vote counts as much as the click itself. A ballot that has closed, like the current boys lacrosse page, accepts no further selections, and the percentages freeze at the final count. The practical window for a vote is the stretch while the poll sits open, which in past lohud lacrosse editions has run between April and May.

For a supporter who misses the window, the honest answer is patience: the next edition is the next chance, and the sequence above is the whole of what voting here demands.

Where the lohud boys lacrosse ballot sits among New York reader votes

The lohud boys lacrosse ballot belongs to a wider family of New York high school reader votes. Two of them share the lohud brand directly: the lohud Boys Basketball Player of the Week and the Lohud Girls Basketball Player of the Week, which run the same player-of-the-week question for basketball instead of lacrosse.

Beyond the lohud brand, the state carries football ballots from several publishers and markets. The New York High School Football Player of the Week covers the sport statewide, while the New York Section 1 High School Football Player of the Week narrows to a section-based footprint. The Hudson Valley New York High School Football Player of the Week takes a regional angle on the same sport.

A further ballot comes from a different publisher altogether: the Buffalo News Prep Talk Girls Athlete of the Week, which extends the athlete-of-the-week format to girls sports in the Buffalo market.

What separates the boys lacrosse ballot within this group is its sport and its place in the April to May calendar, a stretch the football ballots do not occupy. For a supporter following lohud coverage across seasons, the lacrosse vote is the edition that belongs to the boys lacrosse season.

Strengthening support for a lohud boys lacrosse nominee

Support for a lohud boys lacrosse nominee comes down to turning out voters during the short life of the ballot. Because the vote is a plain percentage count on poll.fm, every selection moves the visible share for a nominee's school. lohud says nothing on this ballot about organized voting campaigns, so a supporter planning a push should work from what the ballot itself allows and from general campaign practice rather than assumptions. Sharing the poll.fm address directly with team families, booster groups and the school community is the straightforward route, since the choice takes seconds once the ballot is open. For a wider look at methods that fit public ballots of this kind, see our votes guide at how to get more votes online, and for award-style ballots generally see buying award votes.