Select GameTimePA GameTimePA YAIAA Boys Athlete of the Week: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the YAIAA Boys Athlete of the Week ballot is

Plenty of athlete-of-the-week ballots in Pennsylvania cast a wide net. Mr. PA Football honors one sport across the whole state, and the Morning Call Athlete of the Week follows a single newspaper's coverage. The Select GameTimePA GameTimePA YAIAA Boys Athlete of the Week is narrower by design: it is a boys ballot for the YAIAA, published by Select GameTimePA, a high school sports outlet, and put to a public vote on Crowdsignal, which runs the poll.fm domain.

The voting URL is https://poll.fm/15396597, and the ballot carries the title Select GameTimePA's YAIAA Boys Athlete of the Week. Sport is the vertical, a public vote is the mechanic, and Pennsylvania is the market. No city is named in the ballot title itself, so the market here is the state plus the publisher's league coverage rather than any single town, and no paid ballot exists on the publisher's side.

Fixed facts

One caution shapes the rest of this page. The nominees are high school students, so the ballot is described here by publisher, league, gender and season, and no individual athlete is named. Schools appear on the live ballot only as nominee affiliations, never as places this program is anchored to.

The dated record behind the YAIAA boys ballot

This program's confirmed edition years are 2018, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. That list is the whole published history: Select GameTimePA does not explain the gap between 2018 and 2022 anywhere on its ballot pages, and no open date for a 2026 ballot has been printed.

Dated windows give the cycle its shape. One ballot ran for April 21-26 and is now closed. The most recent dated window closed at noon on Thursday, January 29, 2026. Nominations follow their own rhythm: suggestions for future Athlete of the Week consideration close at noon on Sunday, covering games played from Monday through Saturday each cycle.

What the publisher leaves off the ballot matters as much. Select GameTimePA prints neither the nominee categories nor any limit on repeat voting on the ballot itself; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. Eligibility rules are likewise absent from the published page.

A supporter should treat the live poll.fm page as the authority for the current window, with the Sunday noon nomination deadline as the fixed weekly anchor the publisher does state.

How a supporter votes on the GameTimePA ballot today

Voting is a short, literal sequence on this program. A supporter starts at the poll.fm page for the YAIAA Boys Athlete of the Week, reads the boys athlete nominees listed as poll answers, marks the choice beside one name, and submits. That is the whole mechanic: a public vote with no form between the supporter and the count, because nominations happen upstream through the publisher's Sunday noon cycle.

Three practical points sit around that mechanic. First, the ballot does not state whether an account or sign-in is required, so a supporter should expect the plain version and adjust if the live page asks otherwise. Second, the ballot does not print a rule on repeat voting, so a supporter planning to return on multiple days has no published text to lean on. Third, the nominee list changes from cycle to cycle, which means the choice a supporter faces on a spring ballot will not be the choice on a winter one.

None of these gaps block a vote. They only mean the live page, not any summary, is the authority at the moment a supporter clicks, and that a supporter who cares about a specific athlete should verify that athlete's cycle is still open before rallying votes.

How this ballot sits beside its Pennsylvania neighbours

The YAIAA Boys Athlete of the Week sits inside a crowded Pennsylvania field, and its neighbours each answer to a different publisher. Mr. PA Football is a football-only honor. The PennLive Mid-Penn Boys Basketball Player of the Week stays inside one conference and one sport. The Pennsylvania High School Football Player of the Week and the Pennsylvania High School Softball Player of the Year take single-sport, statewide lanes.

Two more round out the set: the Morning Call Athlete of the Week, tied to one newspaper, and the WICU Athlete of the Year, tied to the WICU station.

What separates the GameTimePA ballot from all six is scope and turnover combined: it is boys-only, league-scoped to the YAIAA, and it refreshes with every nomination cycle rather than crowning a season-long winner. A supporter who follows YAIAA competition has no equivalent ballot among the siblings, and a supporter following another league or another gender will not find those athletes here.

Building support inside the YAIAA voting window

Support in this program is built on timing, not tricks. The nomination cycle covers games from Monday through Saturday, and the ballot that follows is live until the publisher closes it. Sharing the poll.fm link while the window is open, and asking teammates, classmates and family to mark one choice, is the whole organic play. Because the ballot is boys-only and league-scoped, the audience that matters is YAIAA households, and a share aimed at that audience beats a generic post.

Select GameTimePA has not published a statement on outside vote help, so supporters weighing paid options should read the organizer's position as unstated rather than permissive. The general picture for awards like this is covered in how to get more votes online and buy award votes.