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Read more →26 contests with public online voting in Oklahoma — Athlete of the Week and more. Real, paced votes; honest guidance on each contest's rules.
The KJRH-TV (NBC Tulsa / 2 News Oklahoma) weekly fan vote tied to the station's Friday Night Live prep football broadcast, open to nominated Green Country multi-sport athletes with a free public poll at kjrh.com and a season-long tally kept separately at the site's annual results page.
Statewide Oklahoma · High School on SI / SBLive (Sports Illustrated / Minute Media)
Weekly statewide fan-vote poll run by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / ScoreBookLive), open to any Oklahoma prep athlete across all OSSAA-sanctioned sports. Readers vote free each week; voting closes Sunday at 11:59 p.m. CT; nominations go to [email protected].
Statewide Oklahoma · Sports Illustrated / High School on SI (SBLive Sports)
SBLive Sports and Sports Illustrated's High School on SI run a weekly, in-season fan vote for the Oklahoma High School Athlete of the Week at si.com/high-school/oklahoma/athlete-of-the-week. A single week's poll typically draws somewhere between 2,000 and 15,000 votes, open free to any visitor with no account required.
Statewide Oklahoma · SI / High School on SI (SBLive Sports)
A boys-only winter fan vote from SBLive Sports and Sports Illustrated's High School on SI, run weekly at si.com/high-school/oklahoma/boys-basketball throughout the OSSAA season. Distinct from Oklahoma's all-sport Athlete of the Week and football ballots, it mirrors the confirmed boys/girls basketball split SBLive runs in Arkansas. Free to vote, no account needed.
Statewide Oklahoma · Sports Illustrated / High School on SI (SBLive Sports)
A football-only fan vote from SBLive Sports and Sports Illustrated's High School on SI, running weekly at si.com/high-school/oklahoma/football under the ballot title "Vote: Who should be SBLive's Oklahoma High School Football Athlete of the Week?" Free to join, open statewide during the fall OSSAA football season, no account required.
Statewide Oklahoma · SI / High School on SI (SBLive Sports)
A girls-only winter fan vote from SBLive Sports and Sports Illustrated's High School on SI, run weekly at si.com/high-school/oklahoma/girls-basketball through the OSSAA season. Idabel has already placed a confirmed honoree on this specific slate, proving it runs separate from the boys ballot and the all-sport Athlete of the Week. Free to vote, no account needed.
Oklahoma City · The Oklahoman (Gannett / USA TODAY Network)
Free weekly fan poll at oklahoman.com, published by The Oklahoman (Gannett / USA TODAY Network), spotlighting the top OKC-metro and central Oklahoma prep athlete each sports season. One vote per hour per device, no account needed; voting runs through Thursday or Friday each week.
Tulsa · Tulsa World / OkPrepsExtra.com
Tulsa World names a Baseball Player of the Year each year inside its All-World Awards program, one of five spring sports (golf, soccer, tennis, and track share the same cycle) nominated in May. The fan vote runs at OkPrepsExtra.com from June 2 through June 13, free, with no account required.
Tulsa · Tulsa World / OkPrepsExtra.com
Tulsa World names a Boys Basketball Player of the Year each winter as one category inside its All-World Awards, all of it capped by a single June ceremony at ONEOK Field alongside football, baseball, and every other sport the program covers. The sports desk sets the finalist field; OkPrepsExtra.com carries the fan vote.
Tulsa · Tulsa World / OkPrepsExtra.com
Tulsa World's All-World Awards name a Football Player of the Year each season, capped by a June ceremony at ONEOK Field — the 9th annual in 2025. The confirmed 2025-26 Offensive finalist field spans five schools: Wagoner, Owasso, Muskogee, Jenks, and Regent Prep. Fans weigh in at OkPrepsExtra.com.
Tulsa · Tulsa World / OkPrepsExtra.com
One of thirteen sport categories inside Tulsa World's All-World Awards, the Girls Basketball Player of the Year is named by the sports desk once the OSSAA winter season wraps, then opened to a fan vote at OkPrepsExtra.com. Every category, girls basketball included, converges on the same June night at ONEOK Field.
Tulsa · Tulsa World / OkPrepsExtra.com
The Tulsa World / OkPrepsExtra reader fan vote for the standout northeast Oklahoma prep football performance of the week. Editors nominate, anyone can vote at OkPrepsExtra.com with no account, and the ballot closes at 3 p.m. Tuesday CT — a Tuesday close that sets this apart from every Sunday-deadline football poll in the country. Winning earns the "Fan Choice" label; the World's editors separately name their own "World's Choice" pick the same day.
An annual VYPE Media Oklahoma fan poll selecting the top girls basketball player statewide, run through regional-to-statewide polls with editorial scoring — active since the 2013-14 season.
An annual VYPE Media Oklahoma fan poll honoring the top girls softball player statewide, run through regional area polls that advance to a statewide finals ballot each fall semester.
An annual VYPE Media Oklahoma fan poll honoring the top girls volleyball player statewide, running concurrent regional area polls in October that advance to a statewide finals ballot in November.
VYPE Media Oklahoma's annual Mr. Football honor: a regional-to-statewide Fan's Choice poll blended with 40+ editorial member ballots, presented by Shelter Insurance and active since at least 2023.
405 Magazine's annual Best of 405 reader awards for the Oklahoma City metro, voted at vote.405magazine.com across 196 categories in Health & Beauty, Food & Drink, Entertainment, and Services, with 2026 winners announced May 1 in the magazine's print edition.
TulsaPeople Magazine's annual readers-choice awards, splitting a February nomination round from an April public vote across five named sections. The 2026 edition recognized 719 businesses across 143 categories, plus a standing A-List Hall of Fame.
Tulsa World's annual readers-choice awards covering 14 sections and 150+ categories across Oklahoma businesses, services, and people. Nominate, then vote at tulsaworld.com/contests/best-in-world; the 2025 cycle drew 164,068 total votes before a September awards event.
Oklahoma City · Oklahoma Gazette
Annual Oklahoma Gazette readers-choice awards for Oklahoma City metro businesses, running since 1985 with open public reader voting and no pay-to-play placement.
Oklahoma City · Oklahoma Gazette
Oklahoma Gazette's readers' poll for Oklahoma City metro businesses is the oldest such poll running in the metro, dating back to 1985, over 40 years of continuous voting. It keeps a laser-local category structure, sells no placement, and runs entirely at community.okgazette.com/oklahoma/BestOf, with results the Gazette states are 100% reader-determined.
405 Magazine's annual reader-nomination-then-vote awards for the Oklahoma City metro, roughly 196 categories across Health & Beauty, Food & Drink, Entertainment, and Services, with the 2025 cycle logging 292,303 votes from 29,496 voters.
Norman Transcript's readers' choice awards for the Norman, Oklahoma market, home to the University of Oklahoma. Voting runs at normantranscript.com/contests/choice, with the paper's sports section at normantranscript.com/sports confirming an active, locally staffed newsroom. The category list, vote cap, and calendar dates are not published where checked; confirm each on the live ballot.
Oklahoma Magazine's statewide readers' awards, published as the 2025 edition at okmag.com/blog/the-best-of-the-best-2025/, cover trade and professional categories such as architects, RV dealers, auto dealerships, flooring, and HVAC alongside general consumer picks, run from the state's largest circulated monthly rather than a single city's newspaper.
Central Oklahoma Home Builders Association's Parade of Homes People's Choice award runs alongside its twice-yearly, spring and fall, home tour across Edmond, Oklahoma City, Moore, Norman, Yukon, Choctaw, and Mustang. More than 100 homes open free to the public each cycle, with results and rules published at cohba.org/parade-of-homes and paradeofhomesok.com.
Oklahoma City · The Oklahoman / YourChoiceAwards (Gannett)
The Oklahoman's Gannett-run Community's Choice Awards for Oklahoma City metro businesses, voted at oklahoman.gannettcontests.com rather than the yourchoiceawards.com domain other Gannett markets use, across five confirmed 2025 category groups: health, dining, home, auto, and education, run separately from Oklahoma Gazette's Best of OKC.
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