The Lohud Boys Lacrosse Player of the Year in Westchester/Putnam, Presented by White Plains Hospital: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the lohud boys lacrosse Player of the Year vote is

This program is a single-question reader vote that names a Boys Lacrosse Player of the Year for the Westchester/Putnam coverage area. The organizer is lohud, a New York publisher focused on high school sports, and the award is presented by White Plains Hospital, whose name appears in the ballot title itself. lohud's own published wording attaches the hospital to its Athlete of the Week polls, so the hospital's role is sponsorship of the poll series rather than a judging role.

Crowdsignal hosts the vote at poll.fm/15644796. The ballot asks exactly one question, who the lohud Boys Lacrosse Player of the Year in Westchester/Putnam is, and offers a fixed list of nominee options. The 2025 ballot carried six nominees, each a high school player with a school affiliation printed beside the name. Because every nominee is a minor, the ballot is described here by publisher, sport, season and region, and no individual player is named.

The vertical here is sport, and the ballot format is a plain reader vote aimed at the readership that follows boys lacrosse across Westchester and Putnam counties in New York. It is one of several reader votes lohud and other New York publishers run; the lohud Boys Basketball Player of the Week and the Lohud Girls Basketball Player of the Week sit in the same family, each carrying a separate ballot and a separate window.

Dated facts for this lacrosse award

The award's confirmed history spans 2022 and 2025. That spread qualifies the program as annual, and the next expected cycle is 2026. The 2025 ballot's voting window fell inside June, and the poll now carries a "(Poll Closed)" label on the Crowdsignal page, which is how a visitor knows the result is final rather than the vote being live.

What lohud has not published on the ballot is the precise day any cycle opens or closes, the nomination process that produced the six-name list, and any rule on repeat visits; for the timing of the next edition, confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The ballot page also prints no category list beyond the lone Player of the Year prompt, so there is no separate defensive, midfielder or coach ballot attached to this URL.

The June timing fits the sport: high school boys lacrosse seasons in New York end in late spring, and a Player of the Year vote lands naturally after playoffs conclude. Whether the 2026 edition keeps that placement is lohud's editorial decision and is not stated anywhere in advance. Anyone hoping to vote next cycle should watch the publisher's lacrosse coverage as the season winds down, since that is where the ballot link has historically surfaced.

How a supporter votes on the poll.fm ballot

Casting a vote takes three small actions. A visitor loads poll.fm/15644796, reads the Player of the Year question, and picks one nominee from the list. The 2025 ballot offered six options, each pairing a player name with a school. There is no write-in box on this ballot format, so a supporter can only vote for a nominee lohud has already placed on the list. After selecting, the supporter presses the vote button and Crowdsignal logs the submission, then shows the running results.

No account, email or login step is printed on the ballot. That makes participation fast, but it also means the ballot page is where any voting rule would have to appear. lohud leaves a per-supporter limit, a rule on coming back each day, and any eligibility statement off the 2025 page, so a supporter planning repeat visits has no published rule to rely on either way. The honest reading is that the live ballot governs: whatever restriction, if any, applies to the next cycle will be visible there once the vote is open.

The short window leaves little slack. The 2025 vote opened and closed within June, and once the "(Poll Closed)" label appears, further selections do nothing. A supporter who wants their school's player to win should be ready to vote as soon as lohud publishes the ballot link, and to share it the same day, rather than waiting for a late push that a short window may not accommodate.

How this ballot sits beside its New York neighbours

This award differs from most of its New York neighbours in cadence and scope. The football ballots that share the state's reader-vote space, including the New York Section 1 High School Football Player of the Week and the Hudson Valley New York High School Football Player of the Week, run weekly during the fall season. This lacrosse vote is a once-per-season Player of the Year award, timed to June after the spring sport ends, and it crowns a single season winner rather than a weekly honoree.

Within lohud's own output, the basketball Player of the Week votes run in winter, so the publisher's reader-vote calendar moves with the sports calendar: basketball in the colder months, lacrosse in June. The Buffalo News Prep Talk Girls Athlete of the Week and the New York High School Football Player of the Week answer to different publishers and different markets, so support built for one never transfers to another.

The presenter also marks this ballot out. White Plains Hospital's name in the title signals a sponsored editorial series from lohud, the same presentation the publisher uses across its Athlete of the Week polls. In practice, this is a named-award vote with a fixed nominee list and a closed result on file, not an open entry contest, and the award vote page explains how that ballot shape differs from business contests.

Strengthening support for a lohud lacrosse nominee

Rallying a nominee's base starts with the June window. Because the 2025 vote opened and closed inside one month, a school community that waits for the playoffs to finish before sharing the link has already spent part of the window. The families, alumni groups and team accounts that show up on the first day of an open poll do the most for a nominee, since every day the ballot is live is a day of submissions.

The mechanic rewards breadth over repetition. One selection per submission means a nominee's total grows with the number of distinct supporters reached, so a team parent forwarding the poll.fm link to a booster group moves the number more than one person revisiting the page. lohud prints no per-supporter rule on the ballot, which cuts both ways: nothing published restricts repeat visits, and nothing published endorses them, so it is wise to assume the publisher watches its own results.

On outside help, lohud's ballot carries no printed policy about purchased or automated votes, but a publisher running a high school award can delete votes it judges irregular and can disqualify a nominee, and that authority sits with lohud regardless of what the ballot page says. Anyone weighing outside help should read the votes guide for the mechanics and keep the organizer's discretion in view, because the award is lohud's to interpret, not the supporter's.