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

What the Lakeshore Elite Softball Player of the Year is and who runs it

Lakeshore Elite, a softball organization in Wisconsin, hands out a player of the year title decided entirely by its community. The award honors a high school softball player whose season the organization's supporters judge worthy, and no panel of coaches or reporters picks the winner; the public vote does.

The ballot lives on Crowdsignal, reached through its poll.fm address, at https://poll.fm/15662839, and the page title identifies it as the Lakeshore Elite softball player of the year poll. The nominee list draws from communities across the program's area, with players put forward from Mishicot, Valders, Plymouth, Random Lake and Manitowoc.

Because supporters rather than selectors decide the award, the shape of the race depends on how well each nominee's town turns out. A small school community that votes steadily can outpace a larger community that votes once, which makes the Lakeshore Elite ballot behave more like a town-by-town turnout contest than a statistical award.

The dated record for the Lakeshore Elite softball vote

The 2023 and 2025 softball ballots are the editions Lakeshore Elite has run so far. The 2025 vote ran in June, with its window falling entirely inside that month, and by the time the poll finished its title read Poll Closed, meaning the 2025 edition had stopped accepting votes.

The final standings on the closed 2025 ballot were visible as percentages: the leading nominee finished at 54 percent on 2,204 votes, and the runner-up held 30 percent on 1,214 votes. Those figures make the Lakeshore Elite ballot unusual among Wisconsin fan votes, because the vote total is printed right beside each result rather than hidden behind a separate results page.

Several facts about the award are not published anywhere Lakeshore Elite controls. The precise day the softball vote opens and the day it closes are not printed; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The ballot page publishes no category list, since the award asks one question about a single player of the year. No vote cap, daily-vote rule or eligibility text is published for the softball ballot either, and no round schedule for the poll appears on poll.fm.

What the organizer does confirm is the nominee slate: seniors and juniors from Mishicot, Valders, Plymouth, Random Lake and Manitowoc appeared on the 2025 ballot, each listed with a class year and a school town.

How a supporter votes on the Lakeshore Elite softball ballot

Voting in the Lakeshore Elite softball poll is a single public action. A supporter loads the softball ballot at https://poll.fm/15662839, reads the nominee list, selects a player, and logs the pick from the Lakeshore Elite page. No nomination round precedes the vote, because the organizer places the nominee slate directly on the ballot.

The ballot displays each nominee with a class year and a school town, so a supporter from Mishicot, for example, can find the Mishicot entries without scrolling through unrelated programs. After a choice is submitted, the poll updates its percentage totals, which is how the closed 2025 edition displayed its 54 percent and 30 percent finishes.

Whether the softball ballot requires an account or an email address is not stated anywhere on the Lakeshore Elite ballot. Whether a supporter may vote more than once is likewise not stated by Lakeshore Elite. Both questions are answered only when a live edition opens.

Timing matters as much as mechanics. The confirmed window sits in June, so a campaign built around this ballot has a short runway. Supporters who wait for the final days compress the race, while towns that start sharing the poll.fm link early spread their turnout across the whole window.

How this ballot sits beside other Wisconsin fan votes

The Lakeshore Elite ballot is among several Wisconsin fan-vote programs on this site, but its shape differs from the newspaper-run athlete of the week awards around it. The Appleton Post-Crescent Cellcom Athlete of the Week and the Green Bay Press-Gazette Cellcom Athlete of the Week are weekly newspaper series with rotating nominees, while the Lakeshore Elite ballot asks one question, who deserves the player of the year title, and is run by a club organization.

Other neighbours include the Bound Wisconsin Basketball Player of the Week, 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). Each of those answers to a publisher with a readership across its own market; Lakeshore Elite answers to its own softball community.

That difference matters for supporters. A weekly series resets every week, so a slow stretch costs little. The Lakeshore Elite player of the year vote concentrates a whole season's goodwill into a single June window, and the nominee pool comes from a compact set of towns, Mishicot, Valders, Plymouth, Random Lake and Manitowoc, rather than from a wide circulation area.

Strengthening support for a Lakeshore Elite softball nominee

Support for a Lakeshore Elite softball nominee comes down to turning out her town before the June window closes. The softball ballot is one open question on poll.fm, so every share of the https://poll.fm/15662839 link is a direct ask. Team accounts, school groups and family networks are the channels the organizer's community already uses, and Lakeshore Elite publishes no rule text restricting how supporters promote the softball vote.

What the ballot does not tolerate is equally unclear, because no eligibility or anti-manipulation text is printed for this award. The practical approach is the honest ask: reach people who genuinely follow Lakeshore Elite softball, make the poll.fm link easy to find, and remind them while the June window is still open. The site's guide to getting more votes online covers outreach methods suited to short-window public polls like this softball ballot.