BFP Girls Volleyball Preseason Player of the Year Ballot: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the BFP preseason volleyball ballot is and who votes in it

Run by BFP ahead of the fall season, the BFP Girls Volleyball Preseason Player of the Year Ballot is an open award for girls volleyball in Vermont. Crowdsignal, the company behind the poll.fm address, carries the ballot, and the voting address is poll.fm/15929734. The title on that address marks the poll as closed once voting ends, so a supporter arriving after the window sees the final standings rather than a live form.

The award is preseason by design. It asks voters to name a player of the year while the season is still ahead, which places it earlier in the calendar than the weekly athlete honours that run through the school year in the same state. The ballot presents a player of the year question for supporters to answer, and the nominees on the published list are girls volleyball players from schools across Vermont.

The audience is the community around those schools: families, teammates and local followers of Vermont girls volleyball. Because the format is an open poll that any visitor can answer, anyone who reaches the page while the window is open can participate, which is why support campaigns for nominees tend to run through school communities rather than through any gated membership.

The dated record behind the BFP girls volleyball ballot

Two edition years stand behind this program: 2022 and 2025. Those are the runs with confirmation, and they are the basis for treating the ballot as an annual fixture in Vermont's preseason calendar. The next expected run falls in 2026, following the August pattern the confirmed editions set.

The confirmed window for the current cycle reads, as printed on the ballot page, "Tuesday, Aug. 25, through 9 p.m. on Monday, Aug 31." That gives supporters a stretch of late-summer days to vote, ending with a 9 p.m. close on the final Monday.

The closed ballot at the voting link showed a leading nominee at 40 percent with 45,545 votes, ahead of a runner-up at 36 percent and 40,309 votes. Those totals put the top of the race well clear of the rest of the field, and the same results view is what supporters see after any close.

BFP prints neither the ballot's category roster nor any per-supporter ceiling or eligibility rule on the poll page; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The opening date of the following edition has not been published either, so late August is a pattern, not a promise.

How a supporter casts a vote in the BFP preseason ballot

Voting is deliberately simple. A supporter opens poll.fm/15929734 while the window is open, reads the nominee list of Vermont girls volleyball players, selects a favourite and submits. The page presents the choices as a poll answer list, and once the window closes the same address displays the final percentages instead of the form.

Three practical points are not printed on the ballot. BFP does not state whether the poll accepts repeat votes from the same supporter, whether voting requires an account, or whether any per-day limit applies. Anyone hoping to vote repeatedly should let the live page itself settle the matter, rather than a rule imported from a different contest.

Timing decides more than technique on this ballot. The window runs Aug. 25 through the 9 p.m. close on Aug 31, so a push that starts after that Monday evening lands on a closed poll and counts for nothing. Supporters who plan to rally votes should do it inside the week the ballot is live, when every share still converts into a counted vote, and should keep a final-day reminder in place for the hours before the close.

Where the BFP preseason ballot sits among Vermont's public-vote programs

The BFP preseason ballot sits alongside several other public-vote programs covering Vermont sport. Its closest neighbours include the Caledonian-Record Athlete of the Week, the Vermont Softball Breakout Player of the Year, and the Vermont Varsity Insider series: the Vermont Varsity Insider Boys Athlete of the Week, its fall football edition, its spring edition, and the Vermont Varsity Insider Girls Athlete of the Week.

What separates the preseason ballot from those neighbours is timing and scope. The weekly programs reset every seven days while a season runs, so a nominee's support window reopens constantly. The BFP ballot asks a single preseason question about girls volleyball and closes within the same late-August stretch it opens in, which concentrates the whole campaign into a few days. The softball breakout award covers a different sport altogether, and the Caledonian-Record program answers to a different publisher.

The practical upshot for a supporter is planning. A weekly poll rewards steady returns across a season; this preseason ballot rewards a short, concentrated push inside the August window, aimed at the school communities that follow Vermont girls volleyball before the fall schedule begins.

Strengthening support for a nominee on the BFP preseason ballot

Support for a nominee on this ballot is mostly a timing exercise. The window is short, Aug. 25 through the 9 p.m. close on Aug 31, so the votes that matter come from people reached while the poll is live. Family, teammates and school communities can pass the poll.fm link around directly, and a reminder on the final day usually beats a burst of early attention that fades before the Monday close.

BFP prints no statement on the ballot page about outside help or organized voting pushes, so the publisher's own rules are the governing authority for anything beyond ordinary sharing. For a broader view of how support campaigns for award ballots are usually built, see how to get more votes online, and for the award-ballot variant specifically see buying award votes. Winning a vote that anyone can enter is never something a service, ours included, can promise.