Who is Section V's Football Athlete of the Week presented by Faber Builders: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Section V football athlete of the week vote is and who runs it

Section V's Football Athlete of the Week presented by Faber Builders is a weekly high school football fan vote covering the Section V region of New York. Section V, the athletic body whose name carries the ballot, runs the program, and Faber Builders appears as the presenting sponsor in the ballot title itself. The vote is carried on Crowdsignal, which serves ballots through poll.fm, and this program's ballot lives at https://poll.fm/16314105.

The ballot asks a simple question each week: which nominee should wear the athlete of the week title? That week's football nominees appear on the page with their qualifications printed above the poll, and readers pick one. Nominees represent member schools from communities the ballot's own options carry, among them Penfield, Monroe, Brighton and Alexander/Pembroke. Because the nominees are high school players, the program is best described by its publisher, sport, class and season rather than by any individual on the slate.

The program at a glance

Everything a supporter needs for one week sits on a single Crowdsignal page: the nominee list, the qualifications above the poll, and the voting buttons. That single-page shape is what makes the program easy to describe and easy to share.

When the Section V football poll runs and which dates are known

Three edition years sit behind the program: 2023, 2024 and 2025. Within a season it behaves as a weekly series. The 2024 and 2025 campaigns produced 23 ballots between them, one for each week of play, and each of those ballots opened with a fresh slate of nominees and closed on its own schedule.

The most recent ballot listed for the series covers the week of Nov. 17-23 and now shows Poll Closed, so that round no longer accepts choices. For closing times, Section V's own published coverage of the program states that each player's qualifications sit above the voting poll, which remains open until 8 p.m. on Wednesday. That Wednesday-evening cutoff is the only close time the organizer has printed.

The ballot page publishes no category roster, no eligibility rule and no stated limit on repeat voting; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The exact hour a new weekly round goes live is likewise not printed in advance, because each ballot appears with the week's nominees rather than with a posted schedule. Readers who follow the series get one dependable habit out of this: the deadline inside any week is Wednesday at 8 p.m., and everything else about a given round is only knowable from the ballot itself once that week's nominees are up.

How a supporter votes on the Section V ballot today

Voting takes one visit to one page. Open https://poll.fm/16314105 while the week's round is live, read the qualifications printed above the poll for each nominee, then select the answer button beside the name you want to back and submit. Crowdsignal processes the choice on the same page; there is no separate entry form, second stage or follow-up screen shown on the ballot.

Each week's slate carries a fresh set of football nominees named alongside their school and community, and the communities on recent ballots included Penfield, Monroe, Brighton and the Alexander/Pembroke pairing. The slate is entirely new from week to week, so a ballot from a previous round, like the Nov. 17-23 poll that now shows Poll Closed, describes a past week's field rather than the current one.

Timing is the only constraint the organizer prints. Section V's coverage says the poll remains open until 8 p.m. on Wednesday, which means the voting life of any single ballot runs from the moment that week's nominees appear to that Wednesday-evening cutoff. A supporter who arrives after the close sees a finished poll rather than a live one, and the next opportunity is the following week's ballot carrying its own fresh slate and deadline.

How this ballot sits beside New York's other player-of-the-week votes

New York carries a crowded field of high school sport fan votes, and this program occupies a specific corner of it. It is football-only, it is tied to Section V rather than to a newsroom or a different athletic section, and its title is carried by a presenting sponsor, Faber Builders. Crowdsignal at poll.fm is the host for its ballot.

Other sport votes in the state answer to different organizers and different beats. The Buffalo News Prep Talk Girls Athlete of the Week covers girls athletes in the Buffalo market. The Hudson Valley New York High School Football Player of the Week is a football vote anchored to the Hudson Valley. The lohud Boys Basketball Player of the Week and the Lohud Girls Basketball Player of the Week follow basketball in the lohud coverage area.

Two more sit closest by format: the New York High School Football Player of the Week and the New York Section 1 High School Football Player of the Week, the latter tied to Section 1 rather than Section V. A supporter looking for this section's football ballot specifically should use the poll.fm link for this program, because the neighbouring votes carry different nominees and different weeks even when their names sound similar.

Making support count inside a Wednesday-night deadline

The shape of this program squeezes any push for a nominee into a few days. A ballot appears with the week's nominees and Section V's coverage states it stays open until 8 p.m. on Wednesday, so a nominee's supporters have a single short window rather than a long campaign. Sharing the ballot link directly with the school community, teammates' families and local followers is the most natural fit for that window, because the vote happens on one page with no sign-up step.

Nothing on the ballot states a policy about outside help or organized voting pushes, and no published rule addresses how supporters may rally. What is fixed is the deadline and the weekly reset: a push that lands after 8 p.m. Wednesday counts toward a poll that has already closed, and the following week starts an entirely new slate. Supporters working on fan votes generally can find tactics, timing advice and realistic expectations in our guide to getting more votes online, which covers weekly formats like this one alongside slower contests.