Upstate Ingles Girls Athlete of the Week: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Upstate Ingles Girls Athlete of the Week is and who runs it

The Upstate Ingles Girls Athlete of the Week is a sport-vertical honor that puts South Carolina high school girls athletes in front of a public vote each week. The organizer behind the program is Upstate Ingles, and the ballot carries the Ingles name into the Upstate region of the state, where the nominee schools on the current roster sit.

Crowdsignal, the balloting platform behind poll.fm, carries the vote for the girls honor. The live ballot sits at https://poll.fm/17450534, and that address is the page a supporter should treat as the source of truth for the current nominee list and the current close time.

The program's fixed details are collected in one place here.

Nothing in the program's setup suggests anything beyond a reader-facing popularity ballot: no entry fee, no judging panel named, and no nomination round described on the ballot page. A supporter who lands on the Ingles girls poll sees the nominee list and a vote form, which is the whole interaction the program asks for.

The dated record for the Ingles girls athlete ballot

Two seasons anchor the published history of the Upstate Ingles Girls Athlete of the Week: an edition in 2022 and the 2026 season. That pair of years is what marks the program as recurring rather than a single poll, and it points to 2027 as the next expected cycle for the girls honor.

The season stretches from March through September. Inside the 2026 season, the live ballot stayed open until noon Sept. 10, a close printed on the poll page itself. The exact opening day for each season's ballot is not printed alongside that close, and no nomination round is described either; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Because the program has run in 2022 and again in 2026, a supporter following the Ingles girls honor should expect each new season to arrive with its own nominee roster and its own close time rather than a fixed calendar published in advance. The poll page is where Upstate Ingles communicates the window that actually applies, and the noon Sept. 10 close on the 2026 ballot is the clearest example of that pattern.

How a supporter votes in the Ingles girls athlete poll today

The Ingles girls poll asks very little of the person voting. A supporter opens the Crowdsignal ballot at poll.fm, reads the nominee list, and each girls athlete appears beside her school: the current lineup pairs nominees with Chapman, Woodmont, Wade Hampton, Spartanburg Christian Academy, Pendleton and Christ Church. Choosing a nominee and submitting the poll form puts the choice into the tally.

The organizer's own page states the rule that matters most: \"Voting is unlimited and will be open until noon Sept. 10.\" Unlimited voting means a family, a team or a fan base can return to the Ingles girls ballot repeatedly through the window without hitting any per-person cap, which is unusual among reader polls and worth knowing before planning a support effort.

Nothing on the ballot page describes an account requirement, a login wall or an email verification step before a vote counts. The poll presents the nominees, accepts a selection and shows the running result, and that is the entire interaction. If Crowdsignal's form ever adds a confirmation step, it appears on the live Ingles girls poll at the moment of voting rather than in a separate rules document.

Supporters who want their nominee to finish on top should treat the noon Sept. 10 close as the real deadline, since the tally standing at that moment is the result that decides the weekly honor.

Where this ballot sits among South Carolina's reader polls

South Carolina runs several public-vote sports ballots, and the Upstate Ingles Girls Athlete of the Week holds its own place among them. The Charleston Post and Courier Athlete of the Week runs a similar weekly honor for the Charleston market, while the South Carolina Mr. Football Reader Poll and the South Carolina Football Hall of Fame Fan Vote put the state's football audience to work on larger awards.

Season-specific ballots round out the set: the South Carolina High School Baseball Player of the Week, the South Carolina High School Boys Basketball Player of the Week and the South Carolina High School Football Defensive Player of the Year each cover a single boys sport or award.

What separates the Ingles girls ballot from every neighbour in that list is its focus. It is the only program in the set devoted to girls high school athletes, and it is anchored to the Upstate region under the Ingles name rather than to a newspaper brand or a hall of fame. Its season window of March through September also spans more of the school year than the single-sport ballots around it, which is why its nominee roster changes so often from week to week.

Strengthening support for a nominee on the Ingles girls ballot

Because Upstate Ingles states that voting is unlimited, the practical way to lift a nominee is repetition and reach: every supporter who votes can vote again, and every new person who sees the ballot link can add a fresh choice. Sharing the poll.fm address directly with team families, student sections and community groups does more for a girls athlete nominee than a single burst of activity right before the noon Sept. 10 close.

The ballot page publishes no rules about organized voting pushes, so nobody can point to a printed allowance or a printed restriction on the Ingles girls honor; what is certain is the unlimited voting the organizer states. For a broader look at outreach that fits public polls, see how to get more votes online, and for the wider context around paid support on public ballots, the award votes overview explains the landscape without promising any outcome.