Vote for the Poughkeepsie Journal girls soccer player of week: How Voting Works & How to Win

What this girls soccer poll is and who runs it

This programme is a weekly public vote for high school girls soccer player of the week, run by the Poughkeepsie Journal, the daily newspaper based in Poughkeepsie, New York. The paper gathers performance information from the week's games, names the nominees itself and invites readers to pick a winner. Unlike the statewide football and basketball ballots around it in New York, this one stays inside a single sport, a single gender and a single publisher's coverage area.

The ballot runs on Crowdsignal, the service behind poll.fm, and lives at poll.fm/16119823. Because the series produces a new poll every week of the season, that address serves the latest ballot in the run rather than a permanent single poll. A visitor landing there during the season sees the current week's nominees; a visitor landing just after a close sees the finished poll with its standings.

The schools represented on past ballots stretch across the paper's Hudson Valley coverage area, with nominees drawn from places such as Arlington, Beacon, Highland, Millbrook, Pine Plains and Red Hook. That spread is the point of the format: the paper uses the vote to pull readers from across the region into its high school sports coverage, one week of girls soccer at a time.

The dated record: which seasons and windows are on file

Two season years are confirmed for this programme: 2023 and 2025. Those two years are what qualify the ballot as an annual feature that returns with the New York high school girls soccer season rather than a one-off experiment. The series sits in the fall calendar, with voting activity recorded in September and October, which matches the regular season and early playoff stretch for the sport.

The most recent confirmed ballot carries the window Sept. 29-Oct. 5 and now displays as closed on the Crowdsignal page. That single ballot is the anchor fact for the programme's current state: it shows the series was live and drawing votes in the fall of 2025, and it gives readers a concrete example of how a weekly window is printed on the ballot itself.

The publisher's weekly voting story for the current season gives a window of September 7-13 for its athlete of the week feature and states that polls close at 8:30 p.m. on Sunday night, with the announcement the following morning. Nominations are based on information gathered and received by the Poughkeepsie Journal throughout the week, so the public side of the process begins only once the ballot is posted.

What the poll page does not carry is a standing list of the programme's weekly ballot categories beyond the player of the week vote itself, so the shape of any given week's ballot is something to confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The day a new window opens is likewise set week by week and published with that week's story in the paper's sports section.

How a supporter votes on the live ballot

Voting takes two minutes and needs no account. A supporter opens the current poll at the poll.fm address, reads the list of girls soccer nominees, selects one and presses the vote button. The Crowdsignal form logs the selection immediately and shows the running tally. That is the entire mechanic: the Poughkeepsie Journal handles nominations, and the public handles only the choice.

Timing matters more than anything else on a weekly ballot. The publisher states that polls close at 8:30 p.m. on Sunday night before the announcement the following morning. A vote submitted after that cutoff simply is not counted in the week that just ended, so supporters who plan outreach around this poll should treat Sunday evening as the real deadline, not the printed end of the week's window.

Nomination is not a public step. The paper states that nominees are based on information gathered and received by the Poughkeepsie Journal throughout the week, which means coaches and families get a player onto the ballot by making sure the paper sees the performance, not by filling in a public entry form. Once the ballot posts, the field is fixed for that week.

Closed polls stay online at their own addresses with final standings visible, so a reader who misses a week can still see how the vote finished. For the current week, the fastest route is the newspaper's high school sports story, which links straight to the live form and prints that week's open and close language.

How this ballot sits beside its New York neighbours

New York is unusually rich in high school player of the week polls, and this one has clear neighbours. The Buffalo News Prep Talk Girls Athlete of the Week runs on the same weekly rhythm from the other end of the state. The Hudson Valley New York High School Football Player of the Week shares the region but not the sport, and the New York Section 1 High School Football Player of the Week draws from the section just south of the Poughkeepsie coverage area.

Basketball gives the closest structural comparison. The Lohud Girls Basketball Player of the Week and the lohud Boys Basketball Player of the Week are weekly single-sport polls from a Journal News property, which makes them the nearest cousins to this soccer ballot in format, season length and audience behaviour.

What sets this programme apart is the narrowness of its lane. It is girls soccer only, it runs only while the fall soccer season is live, and it answers to one publisher whose reporters gather the weekly nominations. A statewide football poll competes with a dozen other ballots for attention in the same months; this one is usually the only girls soccer vote its readers see in a given week, which concentrates community support behind a short nominee list.

For anyone supporting a nominee, that difference is practical. A smaller, sport-specific ballot means a school community can move the numbers more visibly than in a statewide field, and a weekly reset means every Monday brings a fresh chance rather than a single season-long contest that rewards one early surge.

Rallying support inside a weekly window

A weekly poll rewards rhythm over size. The window is short, the close is fixed at 8:30 p.m. Sunday by the publisher's own language, and the nominee list resets each week, so the useful moves are the ones a school community can repeat every week: share the poll link the day it posts, ask teammates and families directly, and send a reminder Sunday afternoon before the cutoff.

Because the Poughkeepsie Journal selects nominees from information it receives during the week, the strongest long-term play is off the ballot entirely: make sure the paper's sports desk hears about strong performances so the player appears on future polls. Our votes guide walks through outreach of this kind in more detail, and the platform rules and legal position around paid support are laid out at whether buying votes is legal.