Who is the lohud Flag Football Player of the Week, presented by White Plains Hospital: How Voting Works & How to Win

What this poll is and who is behind it

The lohud Flag Football Player of the Week, presented by White Plains Hospital, is a weekly reader award for high school flag football in New York. Each week during the spring season, a fresh ballot goes up on Crowdsignal, the platform reached through poll.fm, and readers are asked a single question: who is the player of the week. The current voting URL is https://poll.fm/17099574, and it always serves the newest edition of the series rather than an archived one.

Two things set the presentation apart. First, the award is sponsored: the hospital's name sits in the program title itself, so every ballot, headline and share carries the presenting partner's name. Second, the series is built around one sport and one season. Where sibling ballots cover a whole athletic year or several sports, this one exists only for flag football and only for the spring window, which runs March through June.

Facts at a glance

Readers who follow lohud's other seasonal polls will recognise the shape immediately: the platform, the single-question format and the weekly rhythm all match the publisher's wider player-of-the-week family, which this page returns to in its final section.

The dated record: seasons, years and what is not published

Confirmed edition years for this program are 2023, 2025 and 2026. The 2024 calendar year is not among the confirmed years, so the series should be described by the years it does carry rather than by an unbroken run. Within the confirmed stretch, the most recent seasons are the best documented: eighteen separate ballots are evidenced across the 2025 and 2026 seasons, which is what establishes the weekly cadence inside each spring.

The season window is March through June. That span comes from the dated ballots themselves, whose publication months fall in March, April, May and June across the two most recent seasons. The latest ballot in the series, poll 17099574, is marked closed, and its page stated that the fan poll would be open until 3 p.m. on Wednesday. Earlier ballots in the series ran their own shorter windows inside their own weeks.

Several facts are simply absent from what the ballot publishes. There is no printed list of award categories beyond the weekly player question, no published per-supporter voting limit, and no eligibility text for the nominees; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The organizer also does not publish the exact open date of each season's first ballot in advance, so readers who want the earliest possible vote should check the voting URL as March arrives rather than waiting for an announcement.

How a supporter votes on the live ballot today

The mechanic is about as plain as a poll gets. A supporter opens the current ballot, reads the short list of nominated players with the school named beside each one, selects a single option, and submits. There is no login, no registration step and no write-in box; the Crowdsignal ballot presents its options and a submit control, and that is the whole interface.

Timing is the part that trips people up. The poll at the voting URL is the latest edition of a weekly series, so a reader who arrives late in the week may find a closed poll with results already displayed. The most recent ballot set its cutoff at until 3 p.m. on Wednesday, after which the page flips to a closed state and shows the final tally as percentages beside each option. Once a ballot closes, votes cannot be added to it; the next opportunity is the following week's ballot.

Because nominees are high school athletes, some of them minors, this page deliberately names no individual player or school from any ballot list. Describing the program is done entirely through its publisher branding, its presenting partner, its sport and its season. A supporter who wants to vote for a specific nominee simply finds that nominee on the live list during the open window and casts the single selection the ballot allows.

How this ballot sits beside its New York siblings

New York is well covered by public-vote high school programs, and this series is the spring flag football corner of that map. Its closest structural neighbours include the New York High School Football Player of the Week and the New York Section 1 High School Football Player of the Week, both of which cover tackle football rather than flag. What distinguishes this ballot is the combination of sport, sponsor and weekly rhythm: a hospital presenting partner, a girls-era spring sport, and one fresh poll per week of play.

lohud itself runs seasonal siblings on the same pattern, and both are winter programs rather than spring ones: the lohud Boys Basketball Player of the Week and the Lohud Girls Basketball Player of the Week. A reader who understands one of these polls understands the others, since the question format and weekly replacement carry across.

Farther afield in the state, the Buffalo News Prep Talk Girls Athlete of the Week runs a multi-sport format from a different publisher, and the Hudson Valley New York High School Football Player of the Week covers a regional market. Against all of them, this program's identity rests on being the only weekly ballot devoted entirely to flag football in the spring March-to-June window, presented by White Plains Hospital and running on Crowdsignal. For readers weighing paid support of any of these polls, the options on award-vote packages are described separately from what any organizer publishes.