WV News High School Spring Sports Fan's Choice Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

What is the WV News High School Spring Sports Fan's Choice Contest?

The High School Spring Sports Fan's Choice Contest is the spring-season honour in WV News's lineup of reader balloting. WV News is a West Virginia news organization with its headquarters at 324 Hewes Avenue in Clarksburg, the county seat of Harrison County, and public balloting is a regular part of how the publisher engages its audience. This particular ballot turns to high school spring sports and asks readers to champion their favorites, which places it in the best-of family of promotions rather than among the prize drawings the same publisher also schedules.

The vote itself runs on Second Street, the contest platform that carries the publisher's ballots under the wvnews.secondstreetapp.com address. The address for this programme is https://wvnews.secondstreetapp.com/High-School-Spring-Sports-Fans-Choice-Contest, and the listing types the promotion as a nomination-and-voting ballot, a format in which participants put contenders forward and then choose among the field.

A consequence of that paired design deserves attention before any campaign begins: the slate of contenders is not fixed from the outside. It takes shape from the nominations readers submit, so early participation can influence who reaches the finished list at all. For a school community, that makes the opening days of a window the most consequential stretch of the whole run.

Nothing in this shape involves a judging panel or a points system. Recognition goes to whichever nominees draw the most public support while the window stays open, so a school community hoping to see its program honoured has to turn out its families, students and alumni during the weeks the ballot runs. The table below collects the fixed details of the programme in a single place.

When did the 2025 voting window run and what remains unstated?

The documented life of this ballot is short and precise, and every date attached to it belongs to a single span.

Both endpoints say something about the programme's design. An opening in late March puts the ballot live while spring schedules are filling in, and a mid June close keeps it up through the end of championship season, giving nominees the whole spring runway to gather support. The Second Street entry also carries the status closed beside those endpoints, so the promotion stopped taking responses when the June date passed and nothing since then has reopened it.

Outside that span the listing is sparse. The ballot page prints neither a category roster nor a per-supporter voting rule. Eligibility terms are absent as well, so who can be nominated and who may respond is settled only on the live page while a window runs.

This is the first confirmed edition; whether it returns next year is not yet published; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

How does a supporter cast a vote on the spring sports ballot?

Casting a vote here is the work of a few clicks once a window is open. The ballot brings nomination and voting together on a single page, so a supporter's session can involve putting a deserving contender forward as well as choosing among the names already listed. Either way the unit of action is the same: read the spring sports prompt, mark a selection, and send the ballot in.

No sign-in screen, payment step or device rule is spelled out on the listing, and none should be assumed from afar. Whatever an open window requires, whether an email confirmation, a restraint on repeat responses or nothing at all, shows up on the ballot itself at the moment of voting. A supporter moving through the prompts should likewise expect the ordinary furniture of a web ballot, questions that advance as each answer lands and a confirmation at the end; the exact screens are whatever the live ballot serves up.

Readers who reach the address today find the completed 2025 ballot rather than an open question, because the response period ended in mid June. If WV News hangs a successor ballot on its contest hub, that hub is where it will surface first. Supporters weighing outside assistance for a fans'-choice honour like this can read the award-vote overview, which frames what such help involves without substituting for the organizer's own terms.

How does this ballot sit beside WV News's other contests?

The spring sports ballot does not stand alone. WV News runs a full slate of promotions from the same Second Street account, and most of them follow the county-honours model rather than the school-sports model. The county titles salute local businesses across Preston, Marion, Upshur and Mineral counties, the ceremony gathering celebrates athletes from every season at once, and the sweepstakes trade on cash prizes instead of fan recognition.

On this site, neighbouring West Virginia pages cover Best in the Tri-State, the 2025 River Cities Best of the Best, 2026 Best of Harrison and the ABB Scarecrow Contest in Bridgeport, each with its own route listed below. What separates the fans' choice ballot from all of them is its subject: it is the lone honour in the lineup that hands the microphone to followers of high school spring sports.

How can a contender's corner strengthen its support?

A fans'-choice honour rewards organized communities far more than lone voices, and the paired nomination-and-voting format raises the stakes. The earliest task for a school's backers is making sure their contenders reach the slate at all, because a favorite who is never nominated cannot collect a solitary vote afterwards.

The 2025 window's overlap with the competitive spring months rewarded the camps that prepared early. The playbook that follows from that shape is simple: line up roster families before the ballot opens, agree on who watches the contest hub for the launch moment, and spread the address through the channels a school community already uses, from team messaging groups to booster newsletters. Keep every tactic inside whatever conditions the live ballot states, since WV News writes the rules for its own promotions and applies them as it sees fit. Technique that applies to any public vote, independent of this ballot's specifics, is covered in the guide to getting more votes online.