Get your nominations in for the winter edition of our statewide contest
UPDATE, Jan. 30, 11:45 a.m.: We're down to the last hours to nominate your school to be part of this contest to determine the best winter-sport student section in New Jersey. If you were waiting till the last minute, it's here!
Is your school nominated? Check the photo gallery above, which now includes all nominations submitted as of Sunday night. If your school isn't there, what are you waiting for?
The good news is that it takes just minutes to do a nomination, especially if you're at a game. The bad news is that opportunities to take a fresh pic are running out - so don't wait. If your school is out of games before tonight's 11:59 p.m. deadline, reach out to others in the school community, including your athletic director - someone is bound to have a pic.
Nominating your school couldn't be easier. Just take a pic, use the form below to submit it, and BOOM - nomination complete. You can do it all from your phone during a timeout or between wrestling bouts.
Get it done to lock in your school's participation in the fun that follows.
Can you feel the gym shake? Are you looking at a sea of red, white and blue, or have the bleachers become a balmy beach scene in the middle of January? Is that organized cheer still rattling in your head?
Student section at work.
Whether it's themes, cheers, chants or banners, we know there are some student sections that help the team catch fire - home or away. We want to know which N.J. school has the best student section this winter, and we're relying on those student sections - and the rest of the school community - to show us - with pictures, with testimonials and in the end, with votes.
We're launching the winter version of our best student section contest (Oakcrest won the football version this fall). It's journey that will last until the end of February, and it starts with an critical first step - a nomination.
To be a part of all that follows, your school has to get a nomination by Monday, Jan. 30. That's not a ton of time, but nominating a school is super easy. Someone just needs to take at least one picture of the student section and use the form below to submit it. That's it. Done deal.
Our photographers will also be around the state looking for student sections, and we'll use some of our photos to make nominations too, but don't count on us - we can't be everywhere. Make it a sure thing, and nominate your school with a pic.
Contest format:
Nominations will be open through Monday, Jan. 30. We will then split the nominations into regions and launch a one-week qualifying poll for each region. Your voting in the regional qualifying polls will determine the schools that move on to an elimination bracket, with week-long head-to-head voting matchups to determine regional finalists. We will skip the regional finals and have one big statewide final for all the would-be regional finalists. The whole thing is targeted to wrap up Monday, Feb. 27.
Nomination and photo submission notes:
• The form below will work with your cell phone - you can nominate your school from the game!
• NJ.com staff will also make nominations with our own photography.
• Only upload photos you have shot or that you personally received permission to use. We can't use photos from other media outlets. Please don't grab and submit photos from other websites.
• Multiple nominations for a school are welcome, but we may not use every photo.
• Submitted photos will be added to the gallery after some processing time; nominations will be compiled and listed on top of this post after the weekend's play.
So start talking and sharing - rally the troops to nominate, vote and make your student section officially the best in N.J.
SUBMIT YOUR NOMINATION PHOTOS