The Lakeshore Elite Baseball Player of the Year: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Lakeshore Elite Baseball Player of the Year is

High school baseball in the Lakeshore region of Wisconsin has its own fan-decided honor, the Lakeshore Elite Baseball Player of the Year. Lakeshore Elite puts the award to a public vote, and the balloting runs on a Crowdsignal page at poll.fm, the platform behind many Wisconsin reader's choice polls. The confirmed ballot for this award sits at poll.fm/15662244, and its page title speaks directly to supporters: vote for the Lakeshore Elite baseball player of the year.

The format is one poll and one list. Supporters see each nominee with a class year and a school and choose one. The latest list mixed seniors and sophomores from schools including Manitowoc Lincoln, Mishicot, Kiel, Random Lake, Cedar Grove-Belgium and Reedsville, which marks this as a multi-community honor rather than a single-school trophy. The vertical is sport, and the format is a straight fan vote with no entry fee and no paid tier anywhere on the ballot.

The facts below are the anchors a reader can quote.

The dated record: editions, window and what is not published

Two published edition years stand for the Lakeshore Elite award: 2023 and 2025. That two-year spread is what marks the program as annual in this guide, and the gap between the two published years is simply what the ballot history shows, not a claim that any season was skipped.

The most recent ballot carried a hard deadline: voting ran until noon on July 8. The window falls in June and July, which places this award at the end of the Wisconsin high school baseball season, after the spring schedule wraps up. The page title marks the poll as closed once that deadline passes, so a supporter arriving later sees the final tally rather than a live vote.

That final tally is part of the published page. On the latest ballot the leading nominee finished at 49 percent with 19,858 votes, and the runner-up held 36 percent. Those figures come straight from the ballot page and give a sense of the scale a nominee needs to win: a count approaching twenty thousand within a regional, multi-school electorate.

On the unpublished side, no category list appears anywhere on the Lakeshore Elite ballot, and neither do nomination-round dates or printed eligibility text. The organizer's coverage supplies the hourly device limit, but nothing else about the rules is printed on the ballot itself, so any detail beyond the window and the vote rule is a detail to confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

How a supporter votes on the Lakeshore Elite ballot today

Voting here is deliberately simple, and it is worth walking through exactly what a supporter does on the poll.fm ballot numbered 15662244.

First, open the ballot. No login screen stands in front of the nominees; the page loads straight to the vote. The title identifies the poll, and while the window is live the ballot accepts selections. Once a noon July 8 style deadline passes, the title gains a closed marker and the page becomes a results view.

Second, pick a nominee. The list shows each player with a class year and a school, so a supporter scanning for Manitowoc Lincoln, Mishicot, Kiel, Random Lake, Cedar Grove-Belgium or Reedsville can find their player by school name alone. Choosing an option registers the selection locally; nothing is counted until the submit step.

Third, press the vote button. Crowdsignal logs the choice and updates the running tally. The organizer's published coverage of this poll series states the limit plainly: each device may cast one ballot per hour. Anyone voting again simply waits out the hour and returns to the same ballot.

Fourth, repeat across the window. Because the limit is hourly rather than once-per-contest, the winning approach on this ballot is rhythm, not volume in a single sitting. The final tally on the last ballot, 49 percent to 36 percent with the leader at 19,858 votes, reflects weeks of that hourly return pattern across several communities at once.

How this ballot sits beside its Wisconsin neighbours

Wisconsin has an unusually dense field of public-vote sports programs, and the Lakeshore Elite Baseball Player of the Year occupies a specific niche inside it. The large daily athlete-of-the-week polls, such as the Appleton Post-Crescent Cellcom Athlete of the Week and the Green Bay Press-Gazette Cellcom Athlete of the Week, run weekly cycles across all sports under newspaper brands. The Lakeshore Elite award differs in three ways.

It is seasonal rather than weekly: one ballot, one window ending at noon on July 8, deciding a single player-of-the-year honor for baseball. It is regional rather than statewide, drawing its nominee list from Lakeshore communities such as Manitowoc, Mishicot, Kiel, Random Lake, Cedar Grove-Belgium and Reedsville. And it is baseball-specific, where neighbours like the Bound Wisconsin Basketball Player of the Week cover a different sport entirely.

The other Wisconsin programs in this family, including the La Crosse Tribune Supernova Athlete of the Week, the Oshkosh / Fond du Lac Athlete of the Week and the Racine Journal Times Athlete of the Week (Supernova), every one of them answers to its own publisher on its own schedule.

None of them shares a ballot with Lakeshore Elite, so support gathered for one never carries to another. For a nominee in the Lakeshore region, that means the competition is the handful of schools on the same ballot, not the whole state, and the hourly return rhythm of a single window decides the outcome.

Strengthening support within the Lakeshore Elite rules

Everything about this ballot rewards organized repetition. The stated limit allows one ballot per hour from each device, so a nominee's floor is set by how many distinct supporters can be mobilized, and the ceiling by how reliably each of them returns. A school community in Manitowoc, Kiel or Random Lake that builds a simple hourly reminder into its group chats will outperform a larger base that votes once and forgets.

Pass along the exact ballot address rather than a search result, because a closed poll page looks identical to a live one at a glance and the title is the only marker of the difference. Pair every share with the deadline, noon on July 8 in the most recent edition, so nobody assumes there is time to spare.

Stay inside the organizer's stated rules. The hourly device limit is the only published constraint, and pushing supporters to respect it keeps every counted vote safe. What outside help can and cannot do within rules like these is laid out on our award votes page, and the tactics that work on any hourly ballot are in the general guide.