The Pocono Record Girls Athlete of the Week for, Sponsored by Pocono Eye Associates: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Pocono Record Girls Athlete of the Week is and who runs it

The Pocono Record Girls Athlete of the Week for, Sponsored by Pocono Eye Associates is a weekly high school sports award published by the Pocono Record, a Pennsylvania newspaper. Each ballot during the school year collects public votes for girls athletes whose performances the paper's sports desk has nominated, and the sponsor attached to the program name is Pocono Eye Associates.

The vote itself runs on Crowdsignal, whose poll.fm service also carries other Pennsylvania high school ballots. The current ballot address is https://poll.fm/16957077, and the page title identifies it as the girls athlete of the week vote sponsored by Pocono Eye Associates. Nominees on recent ballots have come from sports such as softball and track and field at Pennsylvania high schools.

Program facts at a glance

Because the program is a reader vote rather than a judges' panel, the outcome depends entirely on how many supporters each nominee can rally before the poll closes. That shapes everything a nominee's family does: the weekly rhythm means a new set of nominees appears with each ballot, and the previous poll is closed out before the next one opens.

The dated record for the Pocono Record girls athlete ballot

The series has a long confirmed run. Ballots are confirmed for 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026, which makes this an annual program with a gap in 2024 that the publisher does not explain on the ballot page. The season follows the school year: ballots run from September through May, and polls across the confirmed span have appeared in September, October, December, January, February, April and May.

The most recent ballot in the series covers the week of 4/27-5/2 and is marked closed. Each weekly poll stays open until noon on Thursday, so supporters have a short, fixed window once the nominees are posted. The voting URL points at the latest ballot of the series, and the date of the next ballot is not printed in advance.

Two things the publisher has not put on the ballot page are a category roster beyond the girls athlete of the week framing and any printed rules on vote limits or eligibility; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. Nomination timing is likewise absent, since the paper publishes only the vote itself and not how athletes are nominated.

The practical takeaway for a nominee's family is simple. The program is real, recurring and anchored to the school calendar, but its fine print lives on the live ballot rather than in a standing rule sheet, so each new week's poll is the authority for that week's nominees and deadline.

How a supporter votes in the Pocono Record weekly poll

Voting takes about a minute. A supporter opens the current ballot at poll.fm/16957077, reads the list of nominees, which on recent ballots paired each athlete's name with her school and sport, clicks the circle next to one girls athlete, and presses the vote button. The page sets out no login requirement, and the choice is submitted as soon as the button is pressed.

Because each weekly poll shuts at noon on Thursday, timing matters more than raw effort late in the week. A vote cast Wednesday evening still counts; a vote cast Thursday afternoon lands on a closed poll. Supporters who want their nominee to win the week should treat that Thursday noon close as the real end of the window and organize early in the week instead.

The ballot does not print a per-supporter vote limit, so whether a person may return on later days is not stated there. The mechanics a supporter can rely on are the ones visible on the page: a single selection per submission, one submit button, and a fresh poll each week of the September to May season.

For tactics that carry over to any public poll, including this one, see how to get more votes online. The short version for this program is distribution: the poll.fm link, shared early, with a clear instruction to vote before Thursday noon.

How this ballot sits beside its Pennsylvania neighbours

The Pocono Record ballot sits inside a wider Pennsylvania cluster of high school sports votes. Six sibling programs cover the same state: Mr. PA Football, the PennLive Mid-Penn Boys Basketball Player of the Week, the Pennsylvania High School Football Player of the Week, the Pennsylvania High School Softball Player of the Year, the Morning Call Athlete of the Week and the WICU Athlete of the Year. Each is run by a different publisher on its own schedule.

What separates the Pocono Record program from those neighbours is its shape. It is girls-only, it is weekly rather than seasonal or year-end, and it carries a named sponsor in Pocono Eye Associates. The Morning Call ballot is the closest cousin, since it is also a newspaper athlete-of-the-week vote, while Mr. PA Football and the softball player of the year award run as statewide honors.

The practical difference for a supporter is cadence. A weekly ballot rewards fast mobilization inside a short window, while a season-long award like the softball player of the year allows a longer campaign. Both reward the same underlying skill, which is turning a school community into actual votes before the deadline, and both publish their nominees rather than taking open entries.

Strengthening support for a Pocono Record nominee

Winning a Pocono Record weekly poll is a sprint, not a campaign. The nominees are posted, the poll runs until noon on Thursday, and the athlete whose community turns out the most supporters wins that week. The most dependable advantage comes from distribution: the nominee's family, teammates and school accounts sharing the poll.fm link while the ballot is still open, with a plain instruction to vote before the Thursday close.

The Pocono Record's ballot page carries no statement on outside help, automated voting or purchased votes, so a supporter should read the live ballot's own terms before paying anyone for votes. Services that sell votes for public polls exist, and how any publisher enforces its rules against them varies from program to program. See buy votes online for how the market works, and remember that no vote service, ours included, can promise victory in a poll the publisher tallies itself.