The PA Boys Performer of the Week: How Voting Works & How to Win

What is the PA Boys Performer of the Week and who runs it?

MileSplit Pennsylvania is the state's track and field and cross country publication, and its performer of the week series turns an editorial pick into a reader decision. After a competition week the publisher nominates a group of boys athletes, posts their names on a ballot, and lets visitors settle who deserves the weekly honor. It sits among the recurring reader votes in Pennsylvania, but unlike the best-of surveys run by magazines and newspapers around the state, this rotation restarts every week and stays fixed on high school sport.

The balloting itself is hosted on Crowdsignal, and the current performer ballot sits at poll.fm/16533750. The publisher's own coverage shows how each edition is framed. A cross country edition invited readers to "vote for the MileSplit Pennsylvania boys cross country performer of the week", and a spring edition opened with "After another week of track & field action in Pennsylvania, it's time to vote for the MileSplit Pennsylvania boys performer of the week." Both lines follow the same pattern: the article reports the week's action, and the ballot collects the verdict.

When does the PA Boys Performer of the Week voting open and close?

The series is settled history rather than an experiment. Five consecutive seasons are confirmed, beginning with 2022 and carrying through to 2026, which makes the performer of the week a returning feature of the publisher's calendar. Within each season the rhythm is weekly: a competition week finishes, a fresh question goes up, and a new list of nominees replaces the old.

The representative winter ballot asked "Who was the PA Boys Performer of the Week?" for Jan 12th-Jan 18th and is now marked closed on the poll page. Its option list paired each nominee with his school, drawing from Episcopal Academy, La Salle College and Haverford School for Boys. Once voting ended, the form displayed percentage shares, and the leading option finished at 50%.

The format follows the whole calendar rather than a single sport. A spring edition followed a week of track & field competition, and a fall edition covered cross country, so the same performer vote tracks the outdoor season and the fall distance season alike.

What the ballot page leaves out

MileSplit Pennsylvania prints no weekly close time, no category breakdown and no per-supporter cap beside these performer polls; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The publisher announces each new poll through its coverage articles rather than a fixed calendar, so the arrival of the next edition becomes visible only when the article goes up.

How do you vote in the PA Boys performer poll?

Voting is deliberately simple. Open the current ballot at poll.fm/16533750, read down the list of nominated boys performers, and select the option beside the athlete whose week you rate. Submitting the form logs the choice, and the page moves you to the results view.

What the form shows

Each option pairs a performer with his school, and while the ballot is live the form simply waits for selections. Once a week closes, the same page turns into a results board showing every option's share of the vote.

Devices and access

The poll form is built like any other web page, so it opens in a phone browser exactly as it does on a desktop, and no app is involved.

Because every week produces a new poll, a supporter following the series across a season should work from the publisher's site rather than a saved ballot address, since each edition retires when its week ends.

How does this poll compare with other Pennsylvania reader votes?

Pennsylvania readers have no shortage of vote-based programs, and six sit alongside this one: Best of Berks (Berks County Living Magazine), Best of Philly (Philadelphia Magazine), Best of the 'Burgh, Best of the Lehigh Valley (Lehigh Valley Style), Bucks County & Chester County Readers' Choice and Erie Reader Best of Erie.

Those six are best-of surveys: long rounds in which readers pick favorite local businesses, restaurants and services in a city or county. The PA Boys Performer of the Week behaves differently. It is weekly, it is statewide, and the options are people rather than establishments, namely boys athletes nominated out of that week's track and field or cross country results.

Pace is what separates the two formats in practice. A best-of round gives a campaign weeks of runway; the performer ballot compresses the whole push into a few days.

How can supporters strengthen a nominee's standing in this weekly poll?

A weekly format changes how support has to be arranged. Because a performer ballot lives only as long as a single competition week, word has to travel fast: team group chats, a school's own channels and family networks all beat a late start, and the push has to land before the form closes and the next nominee list takes over. MileSplit Pennsylvania has not printed a policy on organized or paid support for its performer polls, so a campaign considering outside help should study the terms shown on the active ballot before acting. The general playbook for building support in a public vote, without touching the publisher's rules, is laid out in the votes guide.