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

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

Most athlete ballots a Wisconsin sports follower encounters are newspaper products, run by mastheads such as the Appleton Post-Crescent or the La Crosse Tribune and refreshed every week across many sports and many schools. The Lakeshore Elite Volleyball Player of the Year works the other way around. It is a single-sport award, volleyball only, run under the Lakeshore Elite name rather than a newspaper masthead, and it asks the public to pick a year-end winner rather than a weekly one.

Crowdsignal carries the ballot at https://poll.fm/16407691, the same platform family that hosts many Wisconsin media polls. The nominees come from high school volleyball programs in and around Manitowoc, a lakeside city on Wisconsin's eastern shore, and the program sits within this site's Wisconsin sport coverage. Lakeshore Elite is the named organizer; the ballot page names no publisher beyond that, so this guide claims nothing further about the organization's structure or membership.

The contrast with the sibling programs matters for a supporter deciding where effort is best spent. A weekly newspaper award resets every seven days and rewards a fast push; a year-end volleyball vote like this Lakeshore Elite ballot concentrates an entire season of standing into a single window, which changes both the stakes and the timing.

Confirmed editions and the December voting window

Two confirmed volleyball editions anchor this program's timeline, one in 2023 and one in 2025, and those two years are why this guide classifies it as an annual Wisconsin award. The 2025 vote ran during December, and that month is the only window placement the program's material supports. No exact opening day and no closing day are printed anywhere by Lakeshore Elite, and no schedule for a 2026 ballot has been issued either.

Lakeshore Elite leaves the opening day, the closing day and any rule on repeat submissions off its December 2025 volleyball ballot; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Other publication gaps are just as concrete. The Crowdsignal page for the Lakeshore Elite volleyball vote carries no category roster, because the award names one year-end winner rather than running a multi-category ballot. No eligibility statement for voters, no residence or age condition, and no prize description accompany the ballot. Those absences are worth stating plainly: the organizer simply has not published them, and this guide will not fill the silence with guesses borrowed from other Wisconsin programs.

For planning purposes, the honest summary is this: an annual volleyball vote anchored to December in its most recent confirmed run, a 2023 predecessor proving the program outlives a single cycle, and a ballot page that is the only place a new edition's dates will ever appear first.

How a supporter votes in the Lakeshore Elite volleyball poll today

Voting is a straightforward fan choice, and every step a supporter takes happens at the poll.fm address. Opening that page brings up the Lakeshore Elite volleyball player of the year ballot: a list of nominated high school players, each shown with a name, a class year and a school from the Manitowoc area. There is no login gate printed on the ballot and no nomination form attached to it; the page presents a roster and a vote control, nothing more.

Choosing a nominee means selecting the option beside that player's entry and submitting through the vote button on the same page. The Crowdsignal service counts the submission into the running total immediately, and the page shows the poll's standing after the choice lands. Because the award covers a full volleyball season rather than a single week, the roster a supporter sees during the December window represents the year's contenders, not a fresh weekly slate.

Two practical notes follow from the mechanic. First, the ballot address is the single point of entry: sharing the poll.fm link directly puts supporters on the vote itself instead of a search result that may be stale. Second, since Lakeshore Elite publishes no per-supporter rule, the form's own behavior during the December window is the only working answer to how often a submission counts.

How this ballot sits beside its Wisconsin siblings

Wisconsin's public-vote sports awards cluster around newspaper mastheads, and the difference shows in scope. The Green Bay Press-Gazette Cellcom Athlete of the Week and the Appleton Post-Crescent's Cellcom award run weekly slates across many sports. The La Crosse Tribune Supernova Athlete of the Week and the Oshkosh and Fond du Lac equivalent do the same for their markets. Racine's Journal Times award and the Bound Wisconsin basketball player of the week follow the weekly pattern too.

The Lakeshore Elite Volleyball Player of the Year is the outlier in that company. It names no masthead, covers volleyball alone, and measures a whole season instead of a week. Its ballot runs on the same Crowdsignal platform family as several of the newspaper awards, but the organizer is the program itself, anchored to high school volleyball around Manitowoc. The 2023 and 2025 editions give it a longer rhythm than any weekly sibling.

That cadence shapes how a supporter should act. A weekly award rewards acting the day a nominee appears; this year-end volleyball vote rewards building support across the December window while the whole season's standing is at stake. The sibling programs remain useful comparators for mechanics, since they run on the same platform family, but their cadence and their editorial owners are not templates for how this Lakeshore Elite ballot behaves.

Strengthening support for a nominee in the Lakeshore Elite ballot

Because this ballot is one Crowdsignal page carrying one fan choice, support for a nominated volleyball player from the Manitowoc area is built the direct way: share the poll.fm ballot with people who already follow the school's volleyball program and ask them to choose that nominee by name. Team families, classmates and local volleyball groups are the natural audience for a year-end award, and a season's worth of results gives them a reason to act during the December window.

Unlike a weekly Wisconsin award, this ballot lets a nominee's standing accumulate across the whole window rather than resetting, so steady outreach beats a single burst. Sharing the poll.fm address directly avoids landing supporters on an outdated search result, and checking the ballot's standing after each round of outreach shows whether the push is moving the total. A per-supporter submission rule is not published by Lakeshore Elite, so rely on what the form itself permits. The fuller playbook, from message framing to outreach cadence, sits in the guide on getting more votes online.