Who are you voting for as Journal News/lohud Girls Soccer Player of the Week: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Journal News/lohud Girls Soccer Player of the Week poll is

Each week during the New York high school girls soccer season, The Journal News asks its readers one question: who deserves to be named the week's top player. The programme runs under the lohud.com name, the online home of The Journal News, the New York newspaper behind the ballot. It sits in the sport vertical, uses a plain public-vote mechanic, and runs on the paper's Crowdsignal account, with the series ballot at poll.fm/14366946.

The format follows the player-of-the-week pattern common to newspaper high school coverage. The sports desk does not pick the winner itself. Instead, coaches are encouraged to submit via email nominees from their teams whom they believe are deserving, the publisher compiles that group into a weekly ballot, and readers determine the outcome. The publisher's own wording is that it will "compile a group of candidates each week and our readers will determine the winner."

Because nominees are high school students, this page describes the programme by its publisher, sport, gender and season rather than naming any player. The ballot itself lists each week's nominees alongside their schools.

Facts at a glance

The dated record: editions, windows and what is not published

The programme's confirmed editions are 2022, 2023 and 2024. Each confirmed window falls in September, matching the start of the New York high school girls soccer season, and the timing evidence for the series reads as a September-to-September pattern across those years. That makes this a fall fixture on the lohud sports desk rather than a year-round ballot.

Within a season the programme moves weekly. The Journal News compiles a fresh candidate group every week, opens a new poll.fm ballot for it, and lets readers decide the winner before the next round replaces it. The ballot at the voting URL on this page, the latest round of the series, currently displays a closed status, which is what a poll.fm round shows once its window has ended.

Two things the publisher has not printed matter to anyone planning around this ballot. First, The Journal News has not published open or close dates for any individual weekly round, so confirm on the live ballot each cycle. Second, the publisher has not named the year the next edition will run, and no nomination deadline for a future round appears on the ballot page either. Both gaps are ordinary for weekly newspaper polls, where each round is announced with that week's nominee list rather than a season-long calendar.

How a supporter votes in the lohud girls soccer poll today

The mechanic a supporter performs is deliberately simple. The weekly ballot at poll.fm lists that round's nominees, each shown with her school. A supporter selects the radio button beside the player they want to back and presses the vote control, and poll.fm registers the choice immediately and adds it to the running total for that round.

The printed rule governs how often that can happen. The Journal News states, "You can vote once per day, per device." A supporter who wants to keep backing the same player through the week returns each day on the same device and votes again. The ballot prints no account step, no login and no verification email, so the vote is cast straight from the poll page.

Getting a player onto the ballot is a separate step that belongs to the coaches, not to supporters. The publisher's stated process is that coaches are encouraged to submit via email nominees from their teams whom they believe are deserving. A family or supporter who wants a player considered therefore starts with the coach and the athletic department, not with the poll itself. Once the nominee list is compiled, the reader side takes over: the round runs, the daily votes accumulate, and the publisher closes the ballot and moves to the next week's candidates.

How this ballot sits beside its New York neighbours

The Journal News/lohud girls soccer ballot belongs to a wider family of weekly high school public votes across New York, and every one of them answers to a different publisher. The closest relation on this site is the lohud Girls Basketball Player of the Week, which shares the same publisher and the same weekly reader-vote format but covers the winter sport. The lohud Boys Basketball Player of the Week is the boys counterpart from the same desk.

Beyond the lohud family, the state carries football-focused ballots from other publishers: the Buffalo News Prep Talk Girls Athlete of the Week upstate, the Hudson Valley New York High School Football Player of the Week, the statewide New York High School Football Player of the Week, and the New York Section 1 High School Football Player of the Week.

What distinguishes the Journal News/lohud girls soccer ballot is its combination of publisher, sport and season. It is the only one of these programmes devoted to girls soccer, it runs on the lohud sports desk's own poll.fm account, and its confirmed windows all fall in September, at the front of the fall season, while the basketball programmes belong to the winter calendar and the football ballots to their own publishers and schedules.

Strengthening support within this ballot's rules

Support that works in this programme is built on the two levers the ballot actually gives you. The first is the daily return: because the printed rule allows one vote each day on each device, a school community that reminds its families each morning of an open round multiplies its support without touching the ballot's limits. The second is the coach route: nominees reach the ballot through coach email submissions, so a player's supporters should make sure the coach knows the weekly nomination window is open.

The Journal News publishes no statement about purchased or automated votes for this programme, and no per-voter ceiling beyond the daily device rule appears on its pages. That silence cuts both ways: nothing is promised to a bought-vote campaign, and nothing in the printed rules endorses one. A supporter planning a push should read the wider context in how to get more votes online and weigh it against the publisher's standing as a newspaper that can moderate its own poll.