Who is the Advantage Federal Credit Union's Section V Boys Athlete of the Week: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Section V Boys Athlete of the Week ballot is and who runs it

This program is a public-vote award for boys high school sports in Section V, New York, published under the name Advantage Federal Credit Union's Section V. The sponsor appears in the title itself, which puts Advantage Federal Credit Union in front of every ballot question. The vertical is sport, and supporters cast an open public vote aimed at the families, classmates and local followers of Section V boys athletics rather than a general readership.

Crowdsignal (poll.fm) is the polling host behind the ballot, which sits at the address poll.fm/13885160. That poll number is the concrete anchor for the whole program: the page at that address carries the question, the candidate list, and the answer tally, and it is also where a closed poll shows its status. The host is generic infrastructure, not the organizer, so the editorial voice sits with the program's publisher rather than with poll.fm.

One detail on the ballot page matters for how this program should be described. It names individual high school athletes as nominees, and for high school polls those nominees are minors. This reference therefore describes the program by its publisher, sponsor, sport, section and season and does not reproduce the candidate names printed on any weekly ballot. The schools attached to nominations belong to the ballot, not to a standing roster.

The dated facts: which editions are confirmed and when the window falls

The dated facts for this program are short but firm. Two edition years are confirmed, 2023 and 2024, each with a documented ballot of its own. On top of that, the live cycle now has a confirmed start: voting opened on September 8, 2026, per the organizer's own published coverage, which told readers their vote would decide the week's boys sports award and that the poll would stay live until 8 p.m. Thursday.

Individual ballots are keyed to week-long windows. One documented poll covers June 3-9 and is explicitly marked closed, which shows both the week format and the fact that a past window's ballot stays online in a closed state. The September 8 start belongs to a different window with a different week range, which is why the two dates sit together comfortably rather than describing one continuous open period.

Nominations have a published route as well. The organizer's instructions tell readers who want a performance considered for nomination to send an email describing the athlete's week, to the address printed in that instruction, [email protected]. That makes the pipeline two-stage: an emailed nomination, then a public vote on the shortlist the ballot carries.

What the organizer has not published anywhere is the category structure, any rule capping repeat votes by one person, formal eligibility conditions, or the year the series next runs; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The weekly rhythm visible in the documented windows is the pattern, not a published calendar.

How a supporter votes on the Section V ballot today

Voting takes place on one form. A supporter opens the current poll at poll.fm/13885160, reads the credentials the organizer places above the poll, selects one nominee, and submits. The organizer's published instructions are explicit that the candidates' credentials sit above the poll rather than behind it, so the ballot page itself is the reading material. No login, registration step or fee is described anywhere on the published page.

Timing is the one constraint the organizer does state. The September coverage told readers the poll would be live until 8 p.m. Thursday, which means a week's vote has a hard mid-week evening close and the results are settled the same night. A supporter who reaches a ballot marked closed, like the June 3-9 one, has arrived after that window ended and should look for the current week's question instead.

The nomination half of the mechanic runs by email. A supporter or coach who wants an athlete's week considered sends the description to [email protected], the address the organizer's own instructions print. There is no entry form to fill in on the poll page itself, so the email is the only published route onto a future ballot.

One caution follows from what the ballot does not say. No per-supporter cap, daily return rule or identity check appears in the published text, so a supporter cannot know from the page alone whether a second submission counts. The safest reading is that whatever the form enforces at submit time is the whole rule, and the votes guide treats that uncertainty as the starting point for any campaign.

How this ballot sits beside its New York neighbours

New York carries several athlete and player of the week programs on this site, and this one is distinct in three ways. First, its scope is a single athletic section, Section V, rather than a media market's whole coverage area, so the candidate pool is the section's boys programs. Second, the sponsor is a credit union, Advantage Federal Credit Union, named in the ballot question itself. Third, the host is Crowdsignal rather than a newspaper's own voting tool.

The nearest structural cousins are the lohud Boys Basketball Player of the Week and the Lohud Girls Basketball Player of the Week, which share the weekly rhythm and the single-gender focus but answer to another publisher and sit in another part of the state. The Buffalo News Prep Talk Girls Athlete of the Week runs the same weekly award idea in western New York with a newspaper's newsroom behind it.

Football-flavored neighbours include 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. Those narrow the sport to football; this ballot stays open across boys sports within the section.

For anyone backing a nominee here, the practical difference is that the candidate list changes every week and no vote carries over. A win means winning one window, and the next week starts from an empty tally again, which is unlike season-long awards where a single ballot decides the whole year.

Strengthening support for a Section V nominee

Because the ballot closes at 8 p.m. Thursday, every push for a Section V nominee is a short-fuse campaign with a fixed deadline. The mechanics that matter are the ones the ballot gives: a single Crowdsignal form, a candidate list that changes each week, and no published cap on repeat submissions. That combination rewards a nominee's school community being told, plainly and early in the week, where the ballot is and when it shuts.

The organizer's stated stance is confined to two things: the poll decides the week's award, and nominations arrive by email at the address it prints. It publishes no text about outside help, paid votes or automated submissions, which means nobody can quote a rule that either permits or bans them here. What the page does state is that the poll will be live until 8 p.m. Thursday, so timing, not volume alone, decides whether late support lands at all.

Honest outreach fits the format: the team's own channels pointing to poll.fm/13885160 with the nominee's name and the Thursday close, repeated early in the window rather than in the final hours. For a broader view of what support options exist for open public polls, the award votes overview and the votes guide lay out the field without promising outcomes, since no published rule here guarantees any result either way.