Virginia Online Voting Contests

Virginia High School Athlete of the Week

Richmond · Richmond Times-Dispatch (Lee Enterprises)

Free weekly fan poll at timesdispatch.com, run by the Richmond Times-Dispatch (Lee Enterprises), recognising standout Virginia prep athletes across all three VHSL sports seasons. Readers vote for nominees drawn from schools statewide — one vote per device per hour, no account required.

Virginia High School Baseball Player of the Year

Statewide Virginia · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / Arena Group)

Annual season-end fan-vote award run by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / formerly SBLive) at si.com/high-school/virginia, recognising the top VHSL baseball player statewide. Editors nominate candidates from all six VHSL classifications; fans vote with no per-vote cap until the stated deadline at the end of the spring season.

Virginia High School Boys Basketball Player of the Year

Statewide Virginia · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / Arena Group)

Annual fan vote from High School on SI (Sports Illustrated, formerly SBLive) at si.com/high-school/virginia, naming Virginia's top VHSL boys basketball player once the postseason ends. SI's Virginia staff compiles the field; fans vote free through the embedded widget, no account required. Exact dates and any vote limit are not published in advance; confirm both on the live article each cycle.

Virginia High School Football Player of the Week (Roanoke Times / Timesland)

Roanoke · The Roanoke Times

The Roanoke Times runs SW Virginia's weekly reader-vote poll for high school football Player of the Week during the regular season, covering the Timesland area — Roanoke, Salem, Bedford, Pulaski County, Craig County, Botetourt, Alleghany, and surrounding Blue Ridge communities. The ballot closes Tuesday at noon, and a reader's majority — Brody Dawyot of Glenvar won Week 3 of 2024 with exactly 50.7% — is harder to build than it sounds in a six-name field.

Virginia High School Football Player of the Year

Statewide Virginia · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)

Annual fan vote from High School on SI (Sports Illustrated, formerly SBLive) at si.com/high-school/virginia, naming Virginia's top VHSL football player. The programme runs two ballots: a preseason defensive Player of the Year vote confirmed for 2025, plus the traditional end-of-season vote, both with no per-vote cap and open to fans statewide.

Virginia High School Girls Basketball Player of the Year

Statewide Virginia · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / Arena Group)

Annual fan vote from High School on SI (Sports Illustrated, formerly SBLive) at si.com/high-school/virginia, naming Virginia's top VHSL girls basketball player after the postseason ends in March. It runs on the same hub as the boys ballot but as its own separate vote. Free to enter, no account, no published archive of past winners.

Virginia High School Player of the Year

Statewide Virginia · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)

Season-end fan-vote recognition run by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / formerly SBLive) at si.com/high-school/virginia, covering every VHSL sport and classification across all of Virginia. No per-vote cap; polls close at the stated deadline. Separate sport-specific polls — including football POY and baseball POY — run annually for Virginia prep athletes statewide.

Virginia High School Softball Player of the Year

Statewide Virginia · High School on SI / SBLive (Sports Illustrated)

Season-end girls softball fan-vote award run by High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive) at si.com/high-school/virginia. Editors shortlist standout VHSL pitchers, catchers, and position players after the spring season; fans vote online statewide with no per-hour cap until the stated deadline. Annual, free, covers all VHSL classifications.

Virginia High School Volleyball Player of the Year

Statewide Virginia · High School on SI (Sports Illustrated / SBLive)

Annual fan vote from High School on SI (Sports Illustrated, formerly SBLive) recognizing Virginia's top VHSL volleyball player each fall, published at si.com/high-school/virginia. Nominees are drawn from all six classification tiers and every VHSL region. No account or per-vote cap; the public decides once nominations open after the season ends.

WHSV Fast Break Friday

Harrisonburg · WHSV TV3 Harrisonburg (Gray Media, ABC affiliate)

A weekly winter fan vote from WHSV TV3 Harrisonburg (Gray Media, ABC affiliate) that puts three nominated high school basketball plays, not players, on a Friday ballot during the November-through-March season. The sports desk posts the field at whsv.com/sports; anyone can vote at no cost, and there is no sibling ballot anywhere in the state built around a single highlight instead of a season-long stat line.

WTVR RVA Sports Awards

Richmond · WTVR CBS 6 Richmond (Nexstar Media Group)

The annual Richmond-region sports awards fan vote run by WTVR CBS 6 (Nexstar), culminating in a ceremony at the Altria Theater in Richmond. Fans vote free online across categories including Female Athlete of the Year, Male Athlete of the Year, Team of the Year, Youth Athlete of the Year, Youth Team of the Year, Fan of the Year, Moment of the Year, Event Impact of the Year, and Community Champion.

Best of Arlington

Arlington · Arlington Magazine

Annual Arlington Magazine readers-choice survey for Arlington, Virginia businesses, with 70+ categories, summer public voting, and winners published in the magazine's January/February issue.

Best of Coastal Virginia Magazine

Coastal Virginia Magazine's (CoVa Mag) readers-choice survey for the Hampton Roads region, with the 2026 final round confirmed live at bestof.coastalvirginiamag.com. The category list, vote cap, and exact dates simply haven't surfaced anywhere public yet, so confirm each on the live site every cycle.

Best of NoVA Readers Poll

Northern Virginia Magazine's annual readers poll at northernvirginiamag.com/best-of-nova-readers-poll/, confirmed active for both the 2025 and 2026 cycles, covering the shared Arlington, Fairfax, Alexandria, Loudoun, and Prince William readership as one regional ballot rather than the county-level programs Arlington Magazine and InsideNoVa each run separately nearby.

Best of Prince William

Prince William County · InsideNoVA (formerly Potomac Local)

InsideNoVA's annual Prince William County readers-choice awards, spanning 194 categories, with nomination followed by a full April public-voting window and winners printed in the June 26 newspaper edition.

Best of Richmond

Richmond · Richmond Magazine

Richmond Magazine's readers-choice awards program at richmondmagazine.com/best-of-richmond, confirmed active for the 2025 and 2026 cycles. Nobody has yet published a category list, voting window, or results venue for it, so this page states plainly what's known and what isn't.

Best of Virginia

Virginia Living Magazine's statewide reader-choice awards, split into five regional sub-ballots across 100+ categories, with winners announced each May.

Style Weekly Best of Richmond

Style Weekly's annual Best of Richmond Readers Poll, the Richmond alt-weekly's readers-choice program under Post Media, published at styleweekly.com/best-of-richmond-readers-poll-2026/. The 2026 cycle's issue is confirmed published June 9, 2026; categories, the voting window, and any cap aren't documented elsewhere, so check the live page each cycle.