Who should be the Post-Crescent player of the year in girls volleyball: How Voting Works & How to Win

Who runs the Post-Crescent girls volleyball player of the year poll

The poll asks one question: who should be the Post-Crescent player of the year in girls volleyball. It is run by The Post-Crescent, a newspaper based in Appleton, Wisconsin, whose sports desk covers high school athletics across the Fox Valley. The ballot itself lives on Crowdsignal, the polling platform behind poll.fm, which hosts many newspaper reader votes.

The audience is the newspaper's readership in northeastern Wisconsin. The nominee list draws from high schools in the paper's coverage area, and communities including Appleton, Neenah, Kaukauna, Waupaca, Kimberly, Freedom, Seymour and Fremont are represented among the schools whose players appear on the ballot. Readers, families and local volleyball supporters form the voting base.

The programme sits in the sport vertical, and within that in the player-of-the-year award format: rather than a weekly honour, it asks readers to name the single best player of a full season. Since every nominee competes at the high school level, this page describes the poll by publisher, sport and market alone, without recounting individual athletes or their totals.

Which editions are confirmed and when the vote runs

Two editions of this poll are confirmed, in 2023 and 2024. Two confirmed years qualify the programme as annual, so the reasonable expectation is a girls volleyball player of the year ballot each fall. The publisher has not announced a next edition year, and no date for a future ballot is available from the organizer.

The voting window falls between August and November in a live cycle, which lines up with the Wisconsin high school girls volleyball season, played across the fall. The exact day the ballot opens and the exact day it closes are not printed by the newspaper; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

The ballot from the latest cycle is marked closed. A closed Crowdsignal poll does not disappear: it keeps its page and displays the final distribution of the vote, so a reader arriving today sees the finished standings rather than a live choice. That closed state is also what lets the 2024 edition still be examined after the season ended.

The organizer's publishing habits around this poll are narrow. The Post-Crescent has not put out a written rules page for the vote, has not listed nomination round dates, and has not stated when a new edition goes live. Readers who want the current cycle's dates should watch the newspaper's sports coverage at postcrescent.com, where the fresh poll link is shared when voting begins.

How a supporter votes on the ballot today

Casting a vote takes a single pass through one screen. The supporter follows the poll.fm link, reads the question, picks one nominee from the list by tapping the circle next to that player, and presses the vote button underneath. The platform then confirms the choice on screen. Nothing on the page asks for an account, an email address or a sign-in, so the whole action takes under a minute.

Because the page presents a single question, there are no categories to work through. The supporter's only decision is which of the listed girls volleyball players deserves the paper's player of the year honour. If the ballot is in its closed state, the same page instead displays the final percentage each nominee received, and no further votes are accepted.

What the ballot leaves unpublished matters just as much to supporters. Nothing on the page states how often one person may vote, whether a daily return is allowed, or whether the platform restricts repeat submissions. The organizer has left those terms unstated for this poll, so a supporter planning multiple visits across the weeks-long window has no published limit to lean on.

The practical pattern for a genuine supporter campaign is therefore social: the player's family, teammates and school community share the link during the August to November window and keep reminding people to take part. Whether the organizer tolerates repeat voting, or filters votes it considers software-assisted, is not published for this ballot.

How this ballot sits beside its Wisconsin neighbours

This poll is one of several public votes in Wisconsin's high school sports space, and it is the only one on this page's list that names a single standout for an entire volleyball season. The Post-Crescent's own weekly counterpart is the Appleton Post-Crescent Cellcom Athlete of the Week, from the same publisher, which honours one athlete across sports each week rather than one player for a volleyball season.

Other publishers in the state run their own reader votes with different rhythms. The Green Bay Press-Gazette Cellcom Athlete of the Week serves that city's paper, the La Crosse Tribune Supernova Athlete of the Week covers the western part of the state, and the Racine Journal Times Athlete of the Week (Supernova) serves Racine. The Oshkosh / Fond du Lac Athlete of the Week covers two communities to the south of Appleton, and the Bound Wisconsin Basketball Player of the Week is a statewide basketball vote.

What distinguishes the girls volleyball player of the year ballot is format and cadence: a single end-of-season question on Crowdsignal, run by one publisher for its own Fox Valley readership, with a weeks-long window in the fall. A vote cast in this poll carries no weight in any of the neighbouring programmes, since every one of them belongs to a different publisher running a separate ballot.