PrepXtra Boys Athlete of the Week: How Voting Works & How to Win

What is the PrepXtra Boys Athlete of the Week?

The PrepXtra Boys Athlete of the Week is a public weekly poll that asks readers to pick the boys athlete of the week from a field PrepXtra lists. PrepXtra runs the poll, and each ballot is posted through Crowdsignal at poll.fm/12897994.

The program is tied to Tennessee. The notes place the series in the state, and the field is drawn from schools across it, which is why the poll is filed here. The athletes and schools on each ballot are left off this page, because the program is a weekly poll about young players.

The poll is a reader choice. Nothing in the notes describes a panel of judges, so each weekly result comes from the reader count alone.

When do the weekly ballots run?

The series is weekly, and the copy on file covers a ballot for October 15 to 21. That week is the clearest dated anchor the notes provide, and the poll title names it directly.

The notes count season runs from 2018 through 2023, which means the program has a long history of weekly ballots. Those seasons are long enough for a reader to see the series' pattern across years. Ballots for 2025 and 2026 are also on file, so the series has continued past its early seasons.

Because each week is its own ballot, a reader who opens the link after a new week starts has to check which week the page covers before voting. The poll title carries the dates, and that is the only dated anchor the copy holds. The latest ballot is the one at poll.fm/12897994. The date of the next weekly ballot is not printed in the copy held here, so confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

How do readers vote each week?

A reader opens the current Crowdsignal ballot, reads the athletes listed for that week and chooses one. The form is standard, and the copy on file shows each choice with a school and a short season line.

The copy does not print a per-person rule or a daily limit, so this guide will not state one. The live ballot page is the authority, and a reader should read its instructions each week, since the field changes from one ballot to the next. A reader who wants a steady view of the series can open each week's ballot in turn, since a saved copy reflects one week only.

Because the platform hosts the poll, the mechanics follow Crowdsignal's standard form. The vote is a plain public ballot with no jury step described in the notes.

How does this weekly poll sit beside other Tennessee athlete ballots?

Tennessee's athlete ballots on this site fall into two groups: weekly picks and season-end awards. The PrepXtra boys poll is a weekly pick, which makes it closer to the newspaper weekly series than to a single season award.

The weekly options include the Chattanooga Times Free Press Athlete of the Week, the Commercial Appeal Memphis Athlete of the Week and the Johnson City Press Athlete of the Week. Each of those runs a different newspaper's weekly ballot.

Readers choosing between weekly polls can compare the sports covered, since some of these ballots run for basketball and others for football. Readers after a season-end award can compare the Tennessee High School Boys Basketball Player of the Year, which picks one player for the basketball season. Football readers can look at the Tennessee High School Football Player of the Week, and boys readers in Nashville at the Nashville Tennessean Ponce Law High School Boys Athlete of the Week.

How can a supporter back an athlete without breaking the rules?

The most useful support is to share the current ballot with the athlete's teammates, coaches and families and to remind them to vote for the week they are looking at. Sharing is open to anyone and keeps each weekly poll a reader choice.

Supporters can also follow PrepXtra's coverage between ballots, since that is where the week's field is explained. Voters who know the week's games are better placed to choose honestly than anyone aiming at the tally.

General outreach tactics, and the reasons automated votes are a poor route, are covered in get more votes online. The same advice applies to this weekly poll as to any reader vote. Supporters who follow the series across a season will notice the field turns over from week to week.