Who should be VarsityWA's Football Athlete of the Week: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the VarsityWA Football Athlete of the Week ballot is

VarsityWA runs Who should be VarsityWA's Football Athlete of the Week, a high school football fan vote for Washington state. The ballot lives on Crowdsignal at poll.fm, at https://poll.fm/17448613. Voting is open to any visitor: the page poses a single question, lists the nominees with their home communities, and lets each visitor cast a ballot. Nominees on the live ballot come from high school football communities across the state, including Olympia, Lake Stevens, Anacortes, North Creek, Puyallup and Lynden.

The ballot sits in the sport vertical and belongs to a wider Washington athlete-vote family that also includes the News Tribune ballots in Tacoma and a VarsityWA basketball edition. What distinguishes this ballot is its publisher and its sport: VarsityWA fields it statewide under its football brand, and the weekly question rotates through the fall high school season rather than running as a yearly event with fixed categories.

The table gathers the ballot's fixed details.

The dated record of the VarsityWA football ballot

Three edition years attach to this program: 2023, 2025 and 2026. The 2023 ballot stands apart, while 2025 and 2026 arrive as consecutive seasons of the same weekly series, and 2027 should bring the next cycle.

The voting window falls between September and December, the stretch of the Washington high school football season. Within that window the ballot is a weekly series: each round poses the same question with a fresh nominee list. VarsityWA leaves the current round's opening and closing days unprinted, and the dates of the weekly rounds inside the window are absent from the ballot page as well.

The ballot is a single question rather than a multi-category form, so VarsityWA publishes no separate category structure for it. The page also carries no printed vote limit, no eligibility text and no prize description; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

For a supporter planning a push, that gap matters more than any other missing detail, because the weekly rhythm means a nominee's round can open and close inside a matter of days, and a plan built around a date VarsityWA never printed can miss the round entirely.

How a supporter votes in the VarsityWA football poll today

Casting a ballot takes a short sequence. Open https://poll.fm/17448613, the Crowdsignal page VarsityWA runs for its football question. The page shows the question, Who should be VarsityWA's Football Athlete of the Week, above a list of nominees, each shown with a home community such as Puyallup or Anacortes. Select the choice next to your preferred nominee and submit the vote.

Whether a visitor needs an account or an email to vote is not stated by VarsityWA, and the page prints no rule about how often the same visitor may vote. If the button does not respond, the usual causes are a browser blocking third-party content or a round that has already closed; reopening the poll.fm link directly is the quickest check.

Because the series is weekly, supporters who want their vote to count in the current round should vote early in that round's life. The round dates themselves are not printed, so the live page alone shows where a round stands, and a vote cast near a round's end risks landing after the nominee list has turned over.

Where the VarsityWA football ballot sits among Washington athlete votes

This ballot sits inside a Washington athlete-vote family with several neighbours. The Tacoma News Tribune Athlete of the Week and the News Tribune Girls Athlete of the Week (Tacoma) run under a Tacoma newspaper's brand, while the Seattle Sports Star of the Year is a yearly honour rather than a weekly ballot. VarsityWA fields a second ballot in the same family, the VarsityWA Basketball Athlete of the Week, which moves the same weekly fan-vote format to the winter sport.

A companion listing, Washington High School Football Player of the Week, and the VarsityWA Football Athlete of the Week page cover the same football program from other angles. What this means for a supporter comes down to the nominee pool: the VarsityWA ballot draws from high school football communities across Washington, so a nominee from Lynden competes against a nominee from North Creek on the same page, something a city-scoped ballot rarely produces.

Strengthening support in the VarsityWA football vote

Support in this ballot is built around the poll.fm link itself. Because each weekly round carries a fresh nominee list, the useful window for a push is the life of the current round, which falls somewhere inside the September-to-December season. Share the ballot link directly with the nominee's school community, teammates and family groups, since a direct poll.fm link removes the guesswork of searching for the live round.

VarsityWA publishes no stated position on outside vote pushes or paid help, so treat anything beyond ordinary sharing with care and read the live page before relying on any tactic. For broader methods that work across public fan ballots, see how to get more votes online.