The Lohud Field Hockey Player of the Year, Presented by White Plains Hospital: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the lohud field hockey Player of the Year ballot is

The Lohud Field Hockey Player of the Year, Presented by White Plains Hospital, is a high school sports award ballot run by lohud, the news outlet whose coverage centers on the Lower Hudson Valley of New York. The program belongs to the sport vertical, and the format is a plain reader vote: readers see a list of nominated players and pick the one they believe deserves the year-end title. White Plains Hospital appears in the program name as the presenting sponsor, which is a common arrangement for lohud's reader awards.

Crowdsignal hosts the vote on poll.fm, and the 2025 edition lives at poll.fm/16060521. The lohud ballot page carries the full program title, the poll status, and the answer list. That list pairs each nominated player with her school, and the 2025 slate drew from schools in Nyack, Pleasantville, Ossining, White Plains and Mahopac, plus Rye Country Day. Those towns sit inside the outlet's coverage area, which is what makes this a local award rather than a statewide one.

With nominees drawn from high school rosters, this page describes the program by publisher, sport, season and the schools involved, and it does not name any individual player. The facts a supporter or a nominating business needs are structural: who runs the vote, where the lohud ballot lives, and what the page does and does not state.

Edition years and timing for the lohud field hockey award

The published history of the lohud field hockey award spans two years: 2023 and 2025. lohud lists the program as annual, which fits a fall sport whose season ends before the award vote, but the gap between the two confirmed years means the history is thinner than the annual label suggests. Nothing on the ballot page states when the program first ran, and no edition between 2023 and 2025 is confirmed here.

The 2025 edition carried a September window. That month is the only timing detail the published lohud page supports: the exact open day, the exact close day and any nomination period before voting are nowhere on the ballot. The 2025 poll now displays as closed in its title, so the address documents a finished vote rather than a live one.

Several facts a careful supporter would want sit outside the published page. The lohud ballot prints no category list, so it is not clear whether Player of the Year is the sole award or whether other field hockey categories run beside it. No limit on repeat voting, no daily-return instruction and no eligibility wording appears either. The organizer has never published exact window dates for any edition; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

For planning purposes, the honest summary is this: a September window in a fall with an edition, a closed poll afterward, and no forward calendar. Anyone timing a support push around this award should anchor to lohud's own sports coverage rather than to a date printed here.

How a supporter votes on the lohud field hockey ballot

The mechanic is deliberately simple. When an edition is live, the lohud page at poll.fm/16060521 shows the program title, the list of nominated players each paired with her school, and a vote control. A supporter selects the player she wants to back and submits. Crowdsignal counts the pick at once and updates the visible tally of answers, which is the standard behavior for polls on that platform.

Nothing on the lohud ballot mentions account creation, email verification or a login step. That does not mean the poll is unlimited; Crowdsignal lets a poll owner configure repeat-vote settings, and lohud has published no rules text stating which configuration this award uses. A supporter who plans to return daily should treat the per-person rule as unknown until the live page says otherwise.

The 2025 lohud ballot is closed, so visiting the address today shows the finished vote and its answer list rather than an open poll. When lohud launches the next edition, the outlet typically promotes it through its sports coverage, and the new ballot may sit at a different poll.fm address, since a fresh Crowdsignal poll identifier is issued per edition.

For a supporter whose player is on the list, the practical sequence is short: find the live ballot while the window is open, select the player, submit, and watch lohud's field hockey reporting for the result. The award outcome is announced through the outlet's coverage, not through a results page on the lohud poll itself.

Where this ballot sits among New York's school sports votes

lohud is not the only New York publisher running public-vote school sports awards, and the lohud field hockey ballot has clear neighbours. Within the same coverage area, the outlet runs the lohud Boys Basketball Player of the Week and the Lohud Girls Basketball Player of the Week, both weekly winter formats on the same Crowdsignal platform. Those votes recur through the basketball season, while the field hockey award is a single year-end title.

Beyond lohud, the state carries the Buffalo News Prep Talk Girls Athlete of the Week in western New York, the Hudson Valley New York High School Football 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. Each of those ballots answers to a separate publisher, and none of the weekly votes overlaps this one's window.

What distinguishes the lohud field hockey award is its shape: a season-capping Player of the Year title with a presenting sponsor in the program name, rather than a weekly honor. That shape matters for anyone planning support, because a year-end title concentrates attention into a short window, and the September timing means the lohud vote lands right as the fall season builds.

Strengthening support in a lohud high school vote

Support for this award travels through the school communities the lohud ballot already names. The 2025 slate drew players from Nyack, Rye Country Day, Pleasantville, Ossining, White Plains and Mahopac, so the natural audience is each school's field hockey families, teammates and alumni networks. A short September window rewards early sharing, because the 2025 lohud poll closed quickly after opening and a late push has little room to work.

lohud has published no rules text for this award, so there is no stated organizer policy on outside help, purchased support or voting software to point to. That silence cuts both ways: nothing permits it, and nothing forbids it on the page. With high school athletes involved, the cautious reading is that anything resembling manipulation puts a nominee's recognition at risk, and no organizer has endorsed it.

The dependable tactics are the ordinary ones: share the live lohud ballot link while the window is open, ask the school community directly, and repeat the ask on the channels families already use. For more on outreach that works on public votes of this shape, see our votes guide, which covers community outreach first and treats paid options as a separate decision with its own trade-offs.