The Oshkosh, Fond Du Lac Preseason Girls Basketball Player of the Year: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Oshkosh Fond du Lac preseason girls basketball poll is

This Wisconsin award asks readers to name a preseason standout in high school girls basketball across the Oshkosh and Fond du Lac coverage area. It belongs to the sport vertical and runs on a public-vote mechanic: the publisher posts a list of nominees, and readers pick the player they believe deserves the preseason honour. The ballot itself lives on Crowdsignal's poll.fm platform at poll.fm/16288965, registered as poll 16288965.

The nominees on the 2025 ballot were drawn from schools across the coverage area, with players listed from Oshkosh, Fond du Lac, Omro, Lomira, Winneconne and neighbouring communities such as Waupun, Mayville and North Fond du Lac. Each nominee appears with a class year, from sophomores to seniors, which is typical of a preseason high school award that looks ahead to the coming Wisconsin girls basketball season rather than rewarding a finished one.

One thing the ballot does not carry is the publisher's masthead. The poll page prints the award title and the nominee list, but not the full name of the news operation behind it, so supporters know the award by its market name alone.

Facts at a glance

The dated history of this preseason basketball award

Two editions are on file for this programme: 2023 and 2025. That two-year spread is what qualifies the award as an annual fixture rather than a one-off poll, and it points to a preseason slot ahead of each Wisconsin girls basketball winter season. A 2026 edition is the natural next step, though the publisher has printed no date for it.

The 2025 ballot carries the most usable detail. Its title marks the poll as closed, and the publisher's own article about the vote stated that the poll would be open until noon on Thursday, Aug. 20, with votes limited to one per hour per device. Those two facts, the noon Aug. 20 close and the hourly device limit, are the only dated and rule-level facts published for any edition of this award.

No category roster appears beside the player list on the published ballot. The page presents a single player of the year list and nothing beside it, so no one can say from what is published whether other awards, divisions or honourable mentions exist in this programme; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Supporters planning outreach should read it this way: the window is short, preseason, and ends at a fixed noon hour, and the hourly rule rewards steady returns across the whole open period rather than a last-minute surge.

How a supporter votes in the preseason poll today

Voting takes three clicks. Open the ballot at poll.fm/16288965, read the nominee list, select one player and submit. No payment is involved and the ballot page prints no entry form beyond the vote itself. The 2025 edition is closed, so a click today will not register; the same steps apply once the next preseason ballot goes live.

The published rule shapes everything a supporter does next. Votes were limited to one per hour per device in the 2025 poll, which means a household with several devices can multiply its support honestly, and a single supporter can return hour after hour for as long as the poll stays open. The ballot does not state whether an account or login is required, and it prints no eligibility text beside the nominee list.

Because the poll is hosted on poll.fm rather than a newspaper's own site, the page a supporter lands on is bare: a title, a list of nominees with class years and schools, and the vote control. There is no campaign narrative and no sponsor block, so the award stands or falls entirely on the nominee list and the hourly return habit it encourages.

Anyone supporting a specific player should also check the close time on the live ballot before planning a final round of returns, since the noon Aug. 20 figure belongs to the 2025 edition and later editions may set their own deadline.

How this ballot sits beside its Wisconsin neighbours

This award is one of several reader-voted high school sports programmes in Wisconsin, and its closest neighbour is the Oshkosh / Fond du Lac Athlete of the Week, which covers the same two-city market on a weekly rhythm instead of a preseason single award. A supporter following girls basketball in this area will often meet both ballots in the same season.

The wider set includes the Appleton Post-Crescent Cellcom Athlete of the Week to the north, the Green Bay Press-Gazette Cellcom Athlete of the Week, the Bound Wisconsin Basketball Player of the Week, which is the closest sport-for-sport comparison, the La Crosse Tribune Supernova Athlete of the Week in the west, and the Racine Journal Times Athlete of the Week (Supernova) in the southeast.

What separates this programme from every one of those neighbours is its timing and its shape. It is a preseason award, so it runs before the Wisconsin girls basketball season rather than during it, and it crowns one preseason standout instead of rotating a weekly honour. It also sits on Crowdsignal's poll.fm like several of its siblings, which means supporters who know one Wisconsin poll.fm ballot can work this one without learning a new interface.

Strengthening support within this poll's rules

The one-vote-per-hour-per-device rule printed for the 2025 poll defines what effective support looks like here. A nominee's backers do best when each of them returns on their own hourly rhythm across the full window, ending at the published noon close, rather than voting once and leaving. Because the ballot is a bare poll.fm page with no campaign story, the nominee list itself is the only persuasion on the site, so outreach has to happen off the ballot.

That makes family and team networks the real engine of this award. Every household with several devices can support honestly within the printed limit, and a short message with the direct poll.fm link removes the friction of searching for the ballot. The publisher has not printed any policy text about outside help beyond the hourly cap, so the safe reading is simply to stay inside the rule the ballot states. For a fuller playbook, see how to get more votes online.