Vote for GameTimePA's YAIAA girls athlete of the week: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the GameTimePA YAIAA girls athlete of the week poll is

GameTimePA's YAIAA girls athlete of the week recognizes girls high school athletes in Pennsylvania through a weekly fan poll. The organizer is GameTimePA's YAIAA, a publisher that covers YAIAA high school sports, and the voting runs on Crowdsignal, the platform better known by its poll.fm address. The live ballot sits at poll.fm, and the same address carries each new weekly edition as the season moves along.

This series falls under the sport vertical and follows the athlete-of-the-week format: a short list of nominees is published after a week of competition, supporters read their performances, and the poll decides who takes the weekly honor. Because the nominees are student athletes, this page describes the series through its publisher, its sport coverage and its season rather than by naming individuals.

What makes this ballot distinctive within Pennsylvania high school sports coverage is its rhythm. It is not a season-long award decided in a single grand vote. It is a weekly series, with a fresh poll, a fresh nominee list and a fresh result every week during the active season. That shape matters to anyone supporting a nominee, because the window to act is measured in days, not months.

The dated editions: years, windows and what is not published

The confirmed edition years for this series are 2017, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. That spread shows a program with history: a run in 2017, a gap, and then consecutive annual editions from 2023 through 2026. The 2026 edition is the latest confirmed run, and on the annual pattern the next would fall in 2027. Within each year the program runs as a weekly series rather than as a single event, so each edition year contains many individual ballots.

The weekly rhythm is stated plainly by the organizer: voting is available starting at 4 a.m. on Mondays and closes at 5 p.m. on Wednesdays. The most recent spring ballot carried the date range April 20-25 and is now marked closed, which is the normal state of any poll in this series once its Wednesday deadline passes.

Not everything about the program is printed on the ballot page. The organizer does not publish a category list for the poll, so the exact make-up of each week's nominee slate and any supporting categories should be confirmed on the live ballot each cycle. Nominee names, their schools and their weekly performances appear directly on the poll itself when it opens, which is where a supporter should read them rather than relying on any summary.

How a supporter votes in the YAIAA girls athlete of the week poll

The mechanic is a plain one. A supporter opens the live poll.fm page during an open window, reads the nominee list for that week, selects a favorite and sends in the form. The organizer's published guidance states that you can vote for your favorite as many times as you wish, so a supporter who wants to add weight to a nominee's total simply returns to the same page and submits again before the deadline.

Timing is the constraint that matters. The window opens at 4 a.m. on Monday and shuts at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, a span of roughly two and a half days per ballot. A vote submitted after the Wednesday close lands on a poll marked closed and does nothing for the nominee. The April 20-25 ballot illustrates the pattern: it ran its course, closed, and now displays its closed status to anyone who visits.

Because a new ballot replaces the old one each week, the page a supporter bookmarked last week is the same page that carries this week's nominees. There is no separate registration, no login and no nomination form for the public to fill in. The practical routine is therefore: open the poll, check that it is live, read the nominees, vote, and repeat as often as you wish until 5 p.m. Wednesday.

How this poll sits beside its Pennsylvania neighbours

GameTimePA's YAIAA girls athlete of the week belongs to a wider family of Pennsylvania fan polls, each run by its own publisher on its own schedule. Nearby programs include Mr. PA Football, PennLive Mid-Penn Boys Basketball Player of the Week, Pennsylvania High School Football Player of the Week, Pennsylvania High School Softball Player of the Year, Morning Call Athlete of the Week and WICU Athlete of the Year.

What separates this poll from those neighbours is its cadence and its subject. Most of the programs above run as seasonal or yearly awards, while this one resets every week, which means a supporter has many short chances to participate rather than a single long campaign. Its subject is also specific: girls high school athletes across the YAIAA coverage area, in every sport the publisher chooses to nominate in a given week.

For a reader comparing options, the practical difference is the window length. A weekly Monday-to-Wednesday poll rewards fast mobilization of a nominee's community, while a season-long award rewards sustained participation. Both shapes appear across the Pennsylvania programs listed here, so the right strategy depends on which ballot a nominee is actually in.

Strengthening support in a weekly poll with unlimited voting

This ballot's own rules shape what effective support looks like. Because the organizer allows voting as many times as a supporter wishes, and because the window lasts only from Monday morning to Wednesday afternoon, the winning approach is early and steady participation rather than a late surge. Supporters who start returning to the poll on Monday accumulate far more submissions than those who discover the ballot on Wednesday.

The organizer's rules are the boundary for any support effort. Beyond its own unlimited-repeat invitation, the publisher leaves its position on outside voting help unstated, so a family or team organizing around a nominee should work within the published repeat-vote mechanic. For a fuller picture of methods that suit short windows like this, see our votes guide.

Community coordination fits this format well: sharing the poll link with teammates, classmates and local supporters on the Monday it opens, and reminding them before the Wednesday close, uses exactly the mechanic the organizer endorses. No purchase is required to participate, and the poll closes on its own schedule regardless of how any nominee's supporters behave.