Vote for the Poughkeepsie Journal boys athlete of the week: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Poughkeepsie Journal boys athlete of the week is

The Vote for the Poughkeepsie Journal boys athlete of the week is the newspaper's weekly high school sports honour. Each edition the Poughkeepsie Journal, the daily paper covering Poughkeepsie and the wider Hudson Valley in New York, shortlists boys athletes from area scholastic programs and hands the choice to its readers through a public poll.

The balloting itself sits on Crowdsignal, the polling service that also operates under the poll.fm domain. The confirmed ballot address for the June 8-14 edition is poll.fm/17124393, and every fresh edition receives its own page on the same platform when the Journal publishes it. Because the roster is rebuilt each week, the current link is always the paper's latest post rather than a standing form.

The series sits squarely in the newspaper's high school sports coverage: nominees come from local track and field and other scholastic programs, and the winner is promoted through the Journal's own sports desk rather than an outside sponsor. The paper announces each winner the morning after voting closes and then carries that athlete into the upcoming week's poll.

Key facts

For readers weighing this ballot against neighbouring New York programmes, the closest structural cousins include the Buffalo News Prep Talk Girls Athlete of the Week and the lohud Boys Basketball Player of the Week, each run by its own publication.

The dated cycle: nominations, the Sunday close and what is not published

The series runs on a repeatable weekly rhythm. The Journal first opens a nomination stretch: the paper has stated that it "has now opened the nominations for the Athlete of the Week April 27-May 3", which is the most recent nomination window confirmed for this programme. The shortlist that emerges from that stretch becomes the public ballot.

Voting then follows on its own weekly clock. A confirmed edition ran for September 7-13, and the published ballot in the voting slot here covers June 8-14 and has closed. The Journal's stated schedule is explicit: polls "will close at 8:30 p.m. on Sunday night before the announcement the following morning". That Sunday evening deadline is the hard edge of every edition, and it is the single date most worth watching if a supporter wants a vote to land inside the current week.

The paper has also described the hand-off between editions: "Each week's winner will be selected and posted in the upcoming week's poll." Ballots are confirmed across 2022, 2025 and 2026, showing the series running across multiple seasons, and the next cycle is expected in 2027.

What the ballot page does not carry is a standing category or eligibility roster, and the weekly nominee list changes with every edition, so the sports and rules in force for any given week depend on the current poll; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

How a supporter votes in the current week's poll

The mechanic is deliberately plain. A supporter opens the current week's ballot on Crowdsignal, reads the nominee list for that edition, selects the preferred athlete from the poll answers and submits the choice. Nothing on the ballot describes an account requirement or a login step, so the action a reader performs is a selection plus a submission inside the open window.

Timing is the part supporters most often get wrong. Because the Journal closes voting at 8:30 p.m. on Sunday night, a choice submitted late Sunday or any time Monday belongs to a poll that has already closed. The announcement arrives the following morning, so Monday is the day the result becomes known, not the day to keep voting.

The nomination stretch matters just as much for the people around a nominee. Coaches, families and teammates who want an athlete on the ballot need to act during the nomination window, the most recent confirmed example running April 27-May 3, since the voting shortlist is fixed once the Journal publishes it. Missing the nomination stretch means waiting for a later week.

The Crowdsignal address also changes each week. The confirmed link at poll.fm/17124393 belongs to the June 8-14 edition and is closed, so a supporter should reach the fresh poll through the Journal's own sports coverage rather than reuse an old address. For the broader mechanics of public ballots, our award votes page explains how reader polls of this kind are structured in general terms.

Where this ballot sits in the New York athlete-vote landscape

The Poughkeepsie Journal poll is a local, publisher-run series, and that shapes how it differs from the other New York ballots on this site. The Journal is the daily paper for Poughkeepsie and the Hudson Valley, so its poll draws nominees from its own circulation area and an audience of its own sports readers, not from a statewide or national field.

Elsewhere in the state, distinct publishers run their own weekly honours: the Lohud Girls Basketball Player of the Week serves the Lower Hudson Valley under a different masthead, the New York High School Football Player of the Week and the New York Section 1 High School Football Player of the Week cover football at state and sectional level, and the Buffalo News runs its own girls series in Western New York. None of these share a ballot with the Journal's poll.

What makes the Journal's edition distinctive within that field is its sport-agnostic shape: rather than being tied to a single sport season, its weekly ballots have listed track and field nominees and other scholastic athletes side by side, and the weekly winner carries forward into the next edition's poll. For anyone supporting a Hudson Valley nominee, that means the Journal's ballot is the local boys honour carrying the region's newspaper name, while a football nominee in the same region may also appear on a separate sectional ballot with its own publisher, address and closing time.