An actor celebrated for portraying a hockey player on screen, regardless of actual skating ability — the premise of one of the Readers’ Choice Poll’s most beloved novelty categories. Belmont Cameli skated away with the 2026 title for Off Campus. The category works because it is honest about the whole enterprise: these polls reward the fantasy, and everyone voting knows it.
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