Green Bay Press-Gazette Piggly Wiggly Team of the Month: How Voting Works & How to Win

What is the Piggly Wiggly team of the month and who runs it?

The Piggly Wiggly team of the month is a high school sports honour decided entirely by public vote. The organizer is the Green Bay Press-Gazette, a Wisconsin newspaper that promoted the ballot to its readers under the headline "Vote for the Piggly Wiggly Press-Gazette high school team of the month". The programme title joins the paper's name with Piggly Wiggly, the grocery banner that lends the award its branding, and the vote itself runs on Crowdsignal, the polling platform reached through the poll.fm address.

The market is Green Bay, Wisconsin. Where a citywide best-of ballot spreads across a broad range of local businesses and services, this programme narrows to a single honour: which high school team deserves the recognition that month. Nominees are named by school and sport, so a supporter knows exactly which programme on the slate they are backing before they commit a vote.

The paper's connection to the ballot is easy to verify independently. Its coverage of the award travelled beyond its own pages: a syndicated item carried the same headline and closed with a line crediting the article to the Green Bay Press-Gazette, tying the poll.fm form back to a named Wisconsin newsroom rather than an anonymous fan page. The newspaper publishes at greenbaypressgazette.com, which gives supporters a second fixed point alongside the ballot itself.

Programme at a glance

A newspaper-run honour with a grocery banner attached is an unusual pairing, and it is what separates this vote from the chamber-style and magazine ballots around the state.

When did the 2026 ballot run, and what did it decide?

The confirmed window for the programme's 2026 edition spans April and May. By the end of that stretch the ballot carried a "Poll Closed" label, so the round had been settled and the standings stood at their final values.

On the poll.fm page itself the round travelled under the heading "Piggly Wiggly team of the month (Poll Closed)", meaning the host placed the status directly in the ballot's own title instead of tucking it into the body text. A supporter landing on the address today reads that closed state before anything else on the page.

The newspaper did not print exact open and close dates for the round, so the April-to-May span is the precision available for this edition.

Final standings from the closed ballot

Green Bay Preble softball took the honour with a 90 percent share of the 16,072 votes cast, well clear of the rest of the slate.

This is the first confirmed edition; whether it returns next year is not yet published; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

How does a supporter actually cast a vote here?

The mechanic is direct. The ballot lists each nominee by school and sport, a supporter marks the team they want to stand behind, and the vote control submits that choice to the running tally. Standings appear beside each team as a percentage and a raw count, which is exactly how the closed 2026 page still presents its final numbers.

Nothing in the ballot flow asks a supporter to create an account or sign in before voting. Beyond the team slate, the ballot sets out no award categories, and neither a per-person frequency rule nor an eligibility list appears anywhere beside it.

The shape of the closed results shows what the mechanic produces when a community commits. The spread between the top line and the bottom of the slate ran from five figures of support down to a last-place tally of just 30 votes, all registered through the same simple pick-and-submit action on the same page.

Because the 2026 round is shut, a visit to the address today shows the final standings rather than a live form. Any future round would be announced through the paper, and its live form would carry whatever rules the Press-Gazette attaches at that time.

How does this ballot sit beside its Wisconsin neighbours?

Wisconsin hosts a family of reader's-choice programmes that this page sits alongside. Best of the Bay in Green Bay and Best of Madison run citywide ballots, the Milwaukee Readers' Choice serves Milwaukee readers, Best of the Valley covers Appleton, the Eau Claire Reader's Choice Awards covers Eau Claire, and Janesville CommunityVotes runs in Janesville.

Those programmes spread their ballots across a wide range of local favourites. The Press-Gazette's vote takes the opposite shape: a single honour, a single slate of school teams, and a grocery banner in the title. Among the six, it is also the only one whose name carries both a sponsoring business and a specific newspaper masthead, which makes its provenance unusually easy to state in a sentence. For readers tracking award-style public votes of every shape, the award ballot overview groups that family in a single place.

The practical difference for a supporter is concentration. A citywide best-of round divides attention across its whole ballot, while this team honour points every visitor at the same slate, and a motivated school community can move a narrow ballot fast, as the 2026 standings show.

How can a campaign strengthen its support in this vote?

The 2026 standings show what momentum looks like on this ballot: the winning team converted an overwhelming share of the vote while the remainder split what was left. A campaign that wants to compete here therefore starts early, ideally as soon as the paper's spring window opens across April and May.

Practical moves follow from the ballot's own shape. Share the poll.fm address directly with teammates, families and alumni, since every supporter has to reach the same page to register a choice. Remind people before the round shuts, because a closed poll cannot take late votes. And keep the message inside the school community, where the team's name already carries weight.

The organizer has published no statement about outside assistance for this particular poll, so a campaign weighing paid support should study the live form's terms when a round opens and the broader guide to strengthening a public vote alongside it.