Who do you think will be Section V's Girls Basketball Player of the Year: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Section V player of the year ballot is

The problem a nominee's camp usually hits is simple: the award exists, the ballot exists, and nobody has published when it opens. This page exists to pin down what is actually known. The program is called "Who do you think will be Section V's Girls Basketball Player of the Year", and it runs under the Section V name, the governing section for high school girls basketball in its region of New York. It is a public fan vote, meaning the outcome is driven by whoever submits selections on the open ballot rather than by a panel of voters.

The balloting is hosted on Crowdsignal, the polling platform reached through its poll.fm domain. The live address for this program's ballot is poll.fm/14956780, and that single-question format is the whole contest: one question, a list of nominees, a submit action, and a results tally shown afterwards. There is no separate nomination round published on the ballot page and no bracket structure; the nominee list appears directly beneath the question.

For a family, a team, or a school community deciding whether to rally behind a nominee, those are the fixed points: the organizer, the platform, and the address. Everything about timing has to be checked against the live ballot itself, which is why the closed marking on the current page matters as much as any date.

Which editions are confirmed and when the vote runs

Two editions sit in the confirmed history of this program, in 2023 and 2025. That pair is what qualifies the program as annual in shape, and a 2026 edition is the expectation on that basis. The 2024 season left no confirmed ballot, so the run is a pattern rather than a promise, and anyone planning around the award should treat those years as evidence of a winter habit, not a contract.

The timing of the most recent edition is firmer. The 2025 ballot sat in a January window, meaning the voting for that player of the year fell at the start of the calendar year, in step with the close of a girls basketball season. No printed opening day or closing day accompanies it. Section V has also not published the category structure around the award, a per-supporter vote cap, or written eligibility rules for nominees; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

The current ballot at poll.fm/14956780 carries a closed marking in its title, which is the platform's way of ending submissions for that edition while keeping the page and its results visible. A closed ballot still tells supporters something useful: it shows the nominee roster from that winter, the format of the question, and the shape the next edition is likely to take.

Because the poll.fm address points to a single numbered ballot, each future edition is expected to appear on its own ballot identification. When the 2026 window approaches, the reliable move is to revisit this page's linked address and follow it to the new, open ballot rather than assuming the old one has reopened.

How a supporter votes on the Section V ballot today

The mechanic is deliberately plain, which is why school communities can mobilize around it quickly. A supporter opens poll.fm/14956780, reads the question at the top, and finds the nominee list underneath. Each nominee is shown with her name and her school beside the question, so a backer of a particular player can find her without searching. Selecting an answer marks that nominee, and the submit control registers the selection. After submission, the page displays the running tally, so a supporter immediately sees where the race stands.

Three practical points follow from that mechanic. First, status check before effort: the current ballot is marked closed, so shares of the link right now produce nothing until the next edition's ballot opens. Second, the roster is the campaign: because the single-page ballot pairs every player with her school, a clear shareable link and a named ask, "vote for our player", is the whole play. Third, the repeat-submission question: nothing on the ballot states whether a supporter may return and select again on another day, so a community planning a daily push should test or ask rather than assume.

Supporters who want to widen their reach beyond the immediate roster of families can use the tactics in our votes guide, which covers sharing, timing, and outreach for fan polls on platforms exactly like this one. None of it substitutes for an open ballot; the first step is always confirming the poll is accepting selections.

How this ballot sits beside its New York neighbours

Section V's award is one of several New York public votes in the same high school sports space, and the differences are worth understanding before treating them as interchangeable. The closest structural cousin is the Lohud Girls Basketball Player of the Week, which honors girls basketball but on a weekly cadence tied to the Lower Hudson region. Its sibling, the lohud Boys Basketball Player of the Week, runs the same weekly format for the boys side.

Football dominates the rest of the neighbourhood. The Buffalo News Prep Talk Girls Athlete of the Week widens the lens to all girls sports on a weekly cycle, while 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 cover football under a different publisher or section banner.

What separates the Section V ballot is concentration. It is a year-end, single-winner award for one sport and one gender within one section, so all supporter energy lands on a solitary ballot instead of being spread across a rolling series of weekly questions. For a nominee's camp, that means a shorter, sharper window and a greater premium on knowing the moment the next edition opens, since a missed January is a missed year.