MileSplit Virginia Boys Performer of the Week: How Voting Works & How to Win

What is the MileSplit Virginia Boys Performer of the Week poll?

MileSplit Virginia, which longtime followers of the state's running scene know as MileStat, posts a Boys Performer of the Week ballot during the season and lets its audience settle the honor. The programme belongs to the best-of vertical: instead of a bracket or a judging panel, each week's honoree is simply whichever nominee collects the most public votes before the deadline.

MileSplit Virginia publishes this weekly honor through Crowdsignal, whose ballots live under the poll.fm domain, and the current VA Boys Performer of the Week address is poll.fm/16122868. The award is statewide; no host city attaches to it, and the nominees on any given week arrive from high-school programs around Virginia. A closed fall 2025 ballot, for instance, drew its slate from programs including J.R. Tucker, Lord Botetourt, Clover Hill and Pacers, with every option pairing a runner's school and the meet result behind the nomination.

Because the ballot recognizes high-school athletes, this guide sticks to the programme's shape, the schools on the slates and the published numbers, and leaves individual runners out of the discussion.

Which seasons of the VA Boys Performer of the Week are on the books?

Two seasons of the poll are confirmed, 2024 and 2025. Within the 2025 stretch, weekly ballots carried dates in April, May, September and October, eight ballots spread across that window, a pattern that tracks the outdoor track months and the cross-country months instead of running continuously through the calendar.

The most recent closed ballot

The fall ballot headed "VA Boys Performer of The Week (9/29-10/6)" ended with a clear margin. Its leading nominee finished at 57 percent on 361 votes, and the runner-up took 39 percent on 247 votes. The four options on that slate had been nominated for wins and fast marks at meets including East Coast Elite, Great American, Hagen Stone and Octoberfest.

The article carrying each week's poll states the close plainly: the poll closes Friday at 2 p.m. ET. Beyond that, MileSplit Virginia leaves several things off the ballot page entirely; neither a wider category roster nor a per-supporter vote limit appears anywhere on it, so confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

How do you actually cast a vote in the current boys performer ballot?

The mechanics are short. Open the live VA Boys Performer of the Week page at poll.fm/16122868 in any browser. The nominee list sits at the top of the poll, and every option carries a runner's school plus the performance that put him on the slate. Choose the option you want, submit it, and the poll takes the pick straight away.

What the form does and does not ask

No account step is described on the ballot, and nothing on the page instructs a voter to sign in first; if MileSplit Virginia ever adds such a step, it will show on the live poll itself. Rules about casting again, device limits or refresh behavior are likewise not spelled out alongside the options, so the safest reading is that whatever the live form enforces at submission is the operative rule for that week.

The poll renders as a standard web form, so a phone browser handles it identically to a desktop one, and no separate app is involved. Once a week's poll closes, the same page keeps displaying the outcome, with each option's percentage and vote count shown beside the nominee description, which makes past weeks a useful gauge of how competitive a slate typically is.

Where does this weekly poll sit among Virginia fan-vote contests?

Virginia's contest pages cluster around annual reader-choice and best-of ballots: Best of Arlington, the BroadwayWorld Central Virginia Awards, the BroadwayWorld NOVA Awards, Best of Coastal Virginia Magazine, Best of Charlottesville and the Daily Progress Charlottesville Readers' Choice. Those programmes ask voters to weigh whole local scenes, restaurants, theaters and businesses, and they run on yearly cycles with windows measured in months.

The VA Boys Performer of the Week poll is narrower on every axis. A single sport, a single gender, a single honor, and a window measured in days rather than months. That shapes campaigning too: a restaurant in a year-round readers' poll can afford a slow build across the calendar, while a cross-country family working this ballot has until the Friday 2 p.m. ET close to move its nominee up the board.

Supporters weighing outside help for recognition awards of this kind usually start from the guidance collected at award and recognition votes, then check whatever the organizer states on its own pages before acting.

How can a runner's supporters make their weekly votes count?

A weekly ballot rewards speed. Once MileSplit Virginia posts a new VA Boys Performer of the Week slate, supporters have until Friday at 2 p.m. ET, so the useful moves happen early: teammates, parents and booster groups passing the poll link along directly, a nudge in class group chats, a mention through the school's own channels. Because the slate resets each week, a campaign that fell short can regroup around the next nomination instead of waiting out a full year.

MileSplit Virginia prints no statement on the ballot page about organized voting pushes, so the practical ceiling is whatever the live form accepts before the Friday close. For broader technique on rallying supporters behind a poll like this one, the walkthrough at how to get more votes online covers outreach habits that fit a short voting window.