Who is Section V's Boys Athlete of the Week presented by Faber Builders: How Voting Works & How to Win

Who votes and what the Section V boys ballot honors

Section V runs Who is Section V's Boys Athlete of the Week presented by Faber Builders, a weekly honor ballot for boys high school sports in New York. The format is a straight public vote: the organizer publishes a short list of nominees each week, and anyone who opens the ballot can select one athlete and submit. There is no entry fee, no registration wall and no judging panel between a supporter and the vote button.

The ballot is presented by Faber Builders, whose name sits in the program's full title, and the vote runs on poll.fm, the balloting service Crowdsignal operates. The live ballot for the series sits at https://poll.fm/17125721, which is the address a supporter should treat as the current week's vote. Since every nominee is a high school athlete, this page describes the program, its schedule and its mechanics rather than the individual athletes on any given week's list.

Who actually votes is the defining feature of the format. The poll is open to anyone with the link, which means the result reflects whichever community mobilizes hardest during the voting window: teammates, families, school booster groups and local followers of Section V sports. That openness is also why the weekly result can swing sharply from one close to the next, since each new ballot starts from zero with a fresh nominee list.

The dated record: which ballots are confirmed and when the window falls

The series has confirmed ballots in 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026, marking it as an established weekly fixture and not a one-time promotion. The most recent confirmed ballot covered June 8-14 and is marked closed on the poll page, so that week's result is final. Within any live week, the printed close time is 8 p.m. on Thursday: the organizer's own instruction tells supporters they can review the nominees' achievements listed above the poll, which will remain open until 8 p.m. on Thursday.

The ballot page leaves out a full weekly calendar. When each new Section V poll opens and closes, the nomination calendar that precedes voting, and the platform's round dates for the rest of the season are not posted in advance; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

One part of the pipeline is documented. The organizer invites readers to call attention to an athlete's performance for nomination by email, which means the nominee list is fed partly from community submissions before the poll opens. That instruction gives supporters a route into the process that runs before any voting starts, and it is the only published step between a standout performance and a place on the weekly ballot.

For planning purposes, the one rhythm a supporter can count on week to week is the Thursday 8 p.m. close. Everything earlier in the week, from the nominee announcement to the moment the poll opens, shifts from week to week and is only visible once the new ballot is live.

How a supporter votes on the current Section V ballot

Voting takes no special steps. A supporter opens the live ballot at https://poll.fm/17125721, which is the latest poll in the weekly series. Above the voting buttons, the page lists each nominee with a short account of that week's achievements, and the organizer explicitly directs supporters to review those achievements before voting. That reading step is the only research the ballot asks of anyone.

Voting itself is a single selection. The supporter marks the circle next to one Section V nominee and presses the vote button to submit the choice. No account creation, email verification or login screen sits in front of the vote on the poll page, so the whole action takes well under a minute from a cold open. After submission, the poll shows the running result, including each nominee's share of the vote, which is how supporters watch the weekly race develop.

The deadline is the one hard constraint: the poll remains open until 8 p.m. on Thursday. A vote submitted after that cutoff arrives on a closed ballot, and the June 8-14 poll shows exactly what a closed ballot looks like, with its final shares locked in place.

Because each week runs on a fresh poll with a fresh nominee list, there is no carryover. Support built for one week's ballot ends when that poll closes at the Thursday deadline, and the next week's race starts from zero with a new list of names above the poll.

How this ballot sits beside New York's other weekly athlete votes

Section V's boys ballot is one of several weekly high school athlete and player votes running in New York, and each answers to its own organizer. The closest neighbours on this site are the Buffalo News Prep Talk Girls Athlete of the Week, which runs the same weekly honor format for girls sports in the Buffalo market, and the lohud Boys Basketball Player of the Week, which narrows the format to one sport and one coverage area.

Two football-focused ballots round out the picture: the Hudson Valley New York High School Football Player of the Week and the New York Section 1 High School Football Player of the Week, the latter covering a different athletic section from Section V's own territory. A statewide football ballot, the New York High School Football Player of the Week, and the Lohud Girls Basketball Player of the Week complete the sibling set.

What separates the Section V ballot from every one of those neighbours is its presenter and its breadth. Faber Builders presents this ballot by name, and the program covers boys athletes across all Section V sports rather than a single sport, which widens the pool of nominees and the communities mobilizing behind them. The other ballots are publisher-branded or sport-narrowed; this one pairs an athletic section with a local building company as the named presenter, and it has kept the weekly rhythm going across 2023 through 2026.

Strengthening support before the Thursday close

Because this ballot resets every week and closes hard at 8 p.m. on Thursday, timing does more work than volume. A push that lands early in the window gives a nominee's community days to share the poll link, while a push that starts Wednesday night competes with every other school's last-minute message for the same few hours. The achievements section above the poll is the natural thing to share alongside the link, since it gives a supporter's friends and family a reason to pick one name over the others.

The nomination email route is worth knowing too. The organizer asks readers to email the sports desk to call attention to a performance worth nominating, so a standout week that went unnoticed can still reach a future ballot through that channel. That is the organizer's own published invitation, and it costs nothing.

On outside help: the ballot page prints no statement about voting software, bulk submissions or purchased votes, so the organizer's enforcement position on this specific poll is not published. What is certain is the format itself, a plain Crowdsignal public vote with a weekly reset, which rewards organized, repeated community sharing far more reliably than any single burst. For a fuller walkthrough of legitimate support tactics that fit a weekly school ballot like this one, see our votes guide, and for the broader context on paid votes in public contests, the award votes page covers how these ballots differ from judged competitions.