WyoPreps Volleyball Player of the Year: How Voting Works & How to Win

The one mix-up first-time voters make with this ballot

Search "WyoPreps Athlete of the Year" and the first result is usually the general hub, not this page. That's the trap. WyoPreps doesn't run one big year-end vote. It runs 28 of them, one per sport, and volleyball has its own standalone ballot, sponsored by Premier Bone and Joint Centers and hosted on a Townsquare Media radio page, kowb1290.com among the network's stations, not on the main wyopreps.com domain most people expect. Bookmark the wrong link and you're voting in a different sport's poll entirely.

WyoPreps doesn't publish a running vote count or margin for this ballot. Nobody outside the newsroom can say how close last season's race was, or how close this one is. What is confirmed: the 2024-25 volleyball season award, decided in January 2025, months after Wyoming's fall volleyball season had already wrapped, went to a Laramie standout. One name, one program, one month, and not much else in the public record.

That gap between the fan poll and the final call is the second thing worth knowing before voting. WyoPreps staff weigh the poll results against the season's actual performance record rather than handing the award to whoever tops the count. A strong poll push matters. It is not the whole decision. General mechanics for pacing an advisory fan-poll campaign like this one are covered in the online vote-buying guide.

Why a Townsquare radio station, not wyopreps.com, hosts the ballot

Premier Bone and Joint Centers sponsors the Athlete of the Year series across all 28 sports, which is why the branding on the volleyball page carries a medical-practice name rather than a generic award title. But the hosting choice is the more useful thing to understand. Townsquare Media's Wyoming radio network, stations like kowb1290.com, carries individual sport ballots directly on station pages rather than centralizing everything on one sports site. A football fan looking for the volleyball ballot on wyopreps.com proper may not find it; it's parked on a radio station's own domain instead.

That structure means the Volleyball Player of the Year poll can look and feel different from other WyoPreps sport polls a voter has used before, different widget, different page layout, sometimes a different Townsquare property altogether depending on which station picked up that sport's ballot for the cycle. It also means the award has nothing to do with WHSAA postseason results directly. WHSAA runs classification, seeding, and championships on its own track; a Premier Bone and Joint Centers-sponsored radio poll is a separate media recognition layered on top, not a substitute for it. General mechanics for this style of sponsor-branded, radio-hosted fan ballot are covered in the fan poll voting guide.

A statewide ballot with no published scoreboard

The volleyball ballot draws from Wyoming's full geographic spread, Laramie and Albany County programs alongside Cheyenne metro conferences, Casper's Natrona County schools, and the Sheridan and Gillette regions, across all four WHSAA classifications on one shared nominee list. A program from a smaller county sits on the same ballot as a bigger 4A school, and because the final decision weighs the season's actual performance rather than only the poll count, a standout year from a smaller program isn't automatically outweighed by a bigger fan base.

What makes campaigning here different from a simple up-or-down fan vote is the missing scoreboard. There's no public tally telling a supporter whether their nominee needs one more push or has it locked up. Combined with the January decision date, well after the season itself, that means momentum built early and sustained through the fall carries more weight than a last-minute scramble once the ballot finally opens. Practical tactics for spreading a nominee's link through school and community networks are covered in this guide to getting votes on social media. Sports fan-poll vote support exists for exactly that kind of open, statewide, real-turnout ballot; check the current kowb1290.com page rules first, since Townsquare sets the mechanics and can revise them between seasons.

For the weekly companion program covering every sport during the season itself, see Wyoming's WyoPreps Athlete of the Week. Wyoming's separate business readers-choice ballot, unrelated to sports but run in the same state, sits at Best of Wyoming. The full Wyoming slate of contests and awards sits at the Wyoming contest hub, part of the complete USA contest directory.