The Shields Painting Difference: Perfection with Every Brush Stroke
Many painting companies in Florida rely on flashy marketing and big promises to try and attract new clients. But when it comes time to work, they fall short of their promises. This is often due to a lack of experience, qualified painters, and a drive to overachieve. At Shields Painting, we do things a little differently than other painting companies in Citrus County. We believe that a professional paint job should be as close to perfect as possible. Our goal is to leave you 100% satisfied, whether we're touching up an old residential paint job or performing a complex commercial project. It might sound simple, but we achieve that goal through honesty, hard work, beautiful results, and reasonable pricing.
As a family-owned and operated painting company in High Point, FL, we strive to provide personalized, professional, and friendly service. Shields Painting has been in business since 1968 for a good reason. Whenever possible, we go the extra mile to make sure our customers are happy. Unlike some of our competition, we want to know all about your house or business painting project: your vision, your preferences, your challenges, and your goals. When we understand your needs, we can present you with a fantastic final product - one that you're proud to show off to friends and neighbors.
At Shields Painting, we combine our extensive experience with time-tested, meticulous painting processes, resulting in the highest quality painting results around. As a painting contractor in Citrus County, we can take on a variety of residential, commercial, and industrial projects in Florida.
A few of our most popular painting services include:
- Interior Painting
- Exterior Painting
- Residential Painting
- Commercial Painting
- Cabinet Painting
- Ceiling Painting
- Fence Painting
- Sign Painting
- MUCH More!
Our commercial, industrial, and residential painting contractors take the proper steps to protect your property and belongings while we work. Our team will clean up after ourselves, so your property is left clean and free of debris when we're done. After all, we think there's only one way to do a job, and that's the right way.
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Your Go-To House Painting Company in High Point, FL
Your home is a haven of relaxation and solitude. It is uniquely you - a place where you can express who you are through style and design. Whether you need interior touch-ups for your crown molding or a new exterior coat of paint, hiring a reliable painting contractor is the best way to get quality results.
At Shields Painting, we know how important it is to have a home that highlights your tastes and personality. That's why we offer an extensive array of residential painting services in Citrus County. As tempting as it might be to try a DIY paint job, without the proper skills and experience, there is a good chance that the results will turn out less than satisfactory.
High-quality painting requires skill, experience, and patience. If you're a homeowner who needs residential painting services but doesn't have the time, patience, or skills to handle the job, look no further than Shields Painting. We offer accuracy, precision, and longevity with each paint job we perform. Our customers choose Shields Painting for their home because they receive:
- Free Quotes with Detailed Project Breakdowns
- Affordable Pricing
- Expert Painting Contractors
- High-Quality Paint Products
- Combo of Traditional and Modern Techniques
- Well-Maintained Tools
- Unmatched Craftsmanship
- Friendly, Personalized Service
- Good Old-Fashioned Hard Work!
The majority of our house painting services come in two forms: interior and exterior.
Interior Residential Painting
As an interior painting contractor with decades of experience, our expert technicians have developed an interior painting process that maximizes quality and emphasizes customer satisfaction. We understand that interior painting goes beyond aesthetics. It protects your ceilings and walls and helps you sustain a healthier place to live for your family. When only the finest craftsmanship will do inside your home, Shields Painting is here for you.
Our seasoned team of painting experts and craftsmen is dedicated to respecting your space and providing you with the look and feel you're craving inside your home. Whether you bought a new house and want to make it your own or need minor touch-ups but have no time, Shields Painting is ready to tackle the job, no matter how small or large.
Unlike some painting companies, our interior house painters take the time to get the details right, every time. For instance, color is only one aspect of your interior paint job. The paint sheen or finish is just as important. Certain finishes are better for living rooms and bedrooms than in kitchens and bathrooms. We'll help you find the right finish and paint colors for your home, so you don't have to worry about touch-ups or repainting.
Some of our most popular interior house painting services include:
- Ceiling Painting
- Popcorn Ceiling Removal
- Living Room Painting
- Bathroom Painting
- Basement Painting
- Color Consultations
- More

Cabinet Painting
Citrus County cabinet painting deserves its own section on this page because it requires more time, skill, and quality paint than most sections of your home. If your home's cabinets are built into its woodwork, replacing them can be obnoxiously expensive. Compared to the cost of installing new cabinets, painting your kitchen cabinets is much more affordable.
At Shields Painting, we specialize in transforming old cabinets into new, gorgeous features that are just as usable as they are beautiful. Each step of our cabinet painting process is meticulous and thorough. And we'll take care of the entire job, from cleaning, prep, and sanding to priming, painting, and reassembly. This unique service lets you enjoy a brand-new look in your kitchen without having to go into debt by replacing your cabinets.
Whether your cabinets are new, but you want to change their color or you'd like to transition wood cabinets to a painted finish, Shields Painting has the expertise and experience to give you a new look you'll love.

Exterior Residential Painting
Your home - it's a place that not only keeps your belongings safe. It protects your family and loved ones, too. It's one of your largest investments, and like anything else of value, it should be protected. However, Florida weather can take a toll on your home's structure and paint, lowering your home's value and even putting your family at risk.
While it's true that a beautiful exterior affects your house's value, it shouldn't take thousands of remodeling dollars to make a positive change to your home. There's a fine line between reasonable pricing and top-quality painting, and that sweet spot is what Shields Painting aims for. If you want to transform how your friends and neighbors see your home, never underestimate the power of a professional paint job.
Our exterior residential painting services are designed to boost curb appeal, give your home a fresh look, and help it stand up to Florida's unique weather. But we provide more than that. When you hire Shields Painting for your outdoor painting project, you will enjoy peace of mind in knowing that your home is in truly capable hands. Our goal is to exceed your expectations and help bring out the best in your property, whether you need to re-stain your deck or remove old, peeling paint from your siding.
If you're on the hunt for the very best exterior painting contractor in High Point, FL, look no further than Shields Painting.
Some of our most popular exterior house painting services include:
- Vinyl Siding Painting
- Deck Painting and Staining
- Stucco Exterior Painting
- Wood Exterior Painting
- Porch Painting and Staining
- Soffit Painting
- Fascia Painting
- Window Painting
- Front Door Painting
- Thorough Painting Prep
- More

The Premier Commercial Painting Company in High Point, FL
When it comes to first impressions, your businesses' appearance plays an important role. Your commercial property's paint job factors into its overall aesthetics. A great-looking, well-maintained paint job can mean the difference between a customer walking in your storefront and passing by. Conversely, an old, worn-out commercial paint job can send the wrong message to prospective customers. If you can't take the time to keep up your property's appearance, why would a customer spend their hard-earned money on your products?
The same goes for your businesses' interior paint. Would you want to do business with a company that has peeling paint or unsightly crown molding? At Shield's Painting, our goal is to create a beautiful environment that your customers and employees will love inside and out. When you work with our business painters, you can rest easy knowing we treat your business like it were our own. We always clean up after ourselves and know that operations cannot come to a halt just because we're painting. As such, we'll work with your busy schedule to ensure the job gets done right the first time without disrupting your day-to-day commitments.
With decades of commercial painting experience, we know the demands of a commercial painting project necessitate a disciplined and focused approach from the start. Our team of business painters is committed to delivering quality, on-time results on every project, every time - no excuses

We offer professional business painting services to a variety of building types, including:

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Industrial Painting
A high level of care and finesse are required to effectively paint an industrial property. At Shields Painting, we know that industrial paint jobs involve much more than aesthetics. That's why our industrial services are customized to your specifications, using industrial-grade materials that stand up to heavy-duty operations.
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Retail Store Painting
Our commercial painters apply effective, yet appealing interior and exterior paint that stand up to the daily rigors of busy retail environments.


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Small Business Painting
Do you own a restaurant franchise? Have a small "mom and pop" location that needs a fresh coat of paint? Shields Painting has the resources and reliability to efficiently get the job done the first time. That way, you can focus on serving your customers, not having your business repainted.
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Healthcare Location Painting
From walk-in clinics to long-term care facilities, Shields Painting is sensitive to your patients' needs. We know you must protect your patient's privacy while maintaining productivity. Our approach to healthcare location painting centers around your schedule to avoid disruptions in care.


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Apartment Complex Painting
Erase signs of wear and make your apartment complex or multi-family building a more desirable place to live with a stunning, professional paint job.
Florida's Most Trusted Painting Contractor
Shields Painting has been in the business since 1968. In a world where so much has changed, we are proud to uphold the ideals that make us successful: hard, honest work, getting the job done right, and excellent customer service. Providing you with trustworthy, quality work will always take priority over rushing through a project to serve the next customer. That is just not the way we choose to do business.
As professionals dedicated to perfection, we strive to provide a unique painting experience for every customer - one that focuses on their needs and desires instead of our own. Whether you need residential painting for your home or commercial painting for your business, we encourage you to reach out today to speak with our customer service team. Whether you have big ideas about a new paint project or need our expertise and guidance, we look forward to hearing from you soon.

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Men's Golf Opens Spring at Earl Yestingsmieier Match Play
High Point University Athleticshttps://highpointpanthers.com/news/2023/2/5/mens-golf-opens-spring-at-earl-yestingsmieier-match-play.aspx
Men's golf opens its spring season at the 2023 Earl Yestingsmeier Match Play down in Dade City, F.L. This will be the first time the Panthers are participating in the event.Event Info: Mon. - Tue. February 6-February 7 - Earl Yestingsmeier Match Play (Dade City, F.L.) Live Scoring | Lake Jovita Country ClubPreviously known as the Mid-American Match Play, the event ...
Men's golf opens its spring season at the 2023 Earl Yestingsmeier Match Play down in Dade City, F.L. This will be the first time the Panthers are participating in the event.
Event Info: Mon. - Tue. February 6-February 7 - Earl Yestingsmeier Match Play (Dade City, F.L.) Live Scoring | Lake Jovita Country Club
Previously known as the Mid-American Match Play, the event was renamed in 2015 to honor Earl Yestingsmeier. Yestingsmeier passed away in 2014 at the age of 80. He led the Ball State men's golf program for 36 seasons, 31 of them serving as both coach and sports information director. He is enshrined in the Ball State Athletics, Golf Coaches Association, and Indiana Golf halls of fame, leading Ball State to 107 tournament titles and 11 NCAA appearances.
The Field High Point is one of eight teams competing in the tournament. Drake, Dayton, Western Kentucky, Loyola Eastern Michigan, Central Michigan, and Ball State are also competing. The tournament is being hosted by Ball State.
HPU's Lineup
Alan Smith Gregor Meyer Burch Harrison Grady Newton Charlie Barr Kyle Nordheimer
Lake Jovita Country Club Located just north of Tampa, Lake Jovita Country Club is ranked a top 50 golf course. There are two courses on the property, which is semi-private and open to the public. The course being played will play as a par 72 at a length of 7,153 yards.
Format and Schedule The match play tournament is 54 holes. The first 36 holes will be played on Monday with the final 18 set for Tuesday. Monday will be a shotgun start with High Point facing off against Eastern Michigan. Teams are seeded based on GolfStat rankings. The Panthers will have representatives starting off holes 1,2,3,5,6 and 8. High Point will either face No. 1 Ball State or No. 8 Central Michigan Monday afternoon, depending on results. The final round is set for Tuesday at 8:30 a.m.
2023 Earl Yestingsmeier Match Play Matchups (1) Ball State vs. (8) Central Michigan (4) High Point vs. (5) Eastern Michigan (3) Western Kentucky vs. (6) Loyola (2) Dayton vs. (7) Drake
About the Fall High Point's fall consisted of five events. The team's best finish was 7th at the JT Poston Invitational. On the individual side, Burch Harrison won Big South freshman of the week in back-to-back weeks. Harrison finished T-15th at the Grandover Intercollegiate, shooting a 1-under par 215 for the tournament, highlighted by his final round, 3-under par 69. Graduate transfer, Alan Smith, led the team in scoring in three of its five fall events.
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Meet the sargassum belt, a 5,000-mile-long snake of seaweed circling Florida
Emily Olsonhttps://www.wfdd.org/story/meet-sargassum-belt-5000-mile-long-snake-seaweed-circling-florida
It stretches over 5,000 miles. It weighs over 10 million tons. And it's circling around the Gulf of Mexico and the mid-Atlantic, where the right combination of currents and wind could push it ashore.If you haven't heard of the great Atlantic sargassum belt, or even if you have, chances are high that you'll see it pop into your news feed at least once this summer. After a decade of record-breaking blooms, 2023's sargassum mass is again shaping up to cause headaches (literally and figuratively) for beachside towns and tourists.He...
It stretches over 5,000 miles. It weighs over 10 million tons. And it's circling around the Gulf of Mexico and the mid-Atlantic, where the right combination of currents and wind could push it ashore.
If you haven't heard of the great Atlantic sargassum belt, or even if you have, chances are high that you'll see it pop into your news feed at least once this summer. After a decade of record-breaking blooms, 2023's sargassum mass is again shaping up to cause headaches (literally and figuratively) for beachside towns and tourists.
Here's what you need to know.
Sargassum is a type of leafy, rootless and buoyant algae that bunch up in islands and floats around the ocean.
In the open sea, healthy patches of sargassum can soak up carbon dioxide and serve as a critical habitat for fish, crabs, shrimp, turtles and birds.
But if sargassum moves closer to the coast, the seaweed can wreak havoc on local ecosystems, smothering coral reefs and altering the water's pH balance. Once ashore, clumps of sargassum can choke local economies by closing tourism sites, cutting off marinas and constricting fishing yields.
Sargassum begins to rot after about 48 hours on land, releasing irritants like hydrogen sulfide, a hazard to anyone with respiratory issues like asthma. Oh, and the resulting smell resembles manure or rotten eggs — not a great spring break aroma.
It used to be that sargassum rafts were disparate, sporadic bodies, causing little disruption to beach-going.
But scientists noticed a change in sargassum levels in 2011, when masses of the seaweed multiplied, gaining in density and size, becoming so big they were captured on satellite images.
Today, the patches comprise a 5,500-mile-long, 10 million-ton belt that circulates annually, starting near West Africa and snaking through the Gulf of Mexico back into the Atlantic.
More than double the width of the contiguous U.S., the mass fluctuates in size from month to month, with the high point generally landing in the summer.
"The low season of the cycle is now higher than the high point of the cycle five or six years ago," says Brian Barnes, a researcher with the University of South Florida's College of Marine Science.
"What we thought was just a massive bloom has only gotten bigger and bigger and bigger each year," Barnes adds.
The exact drivers of the growth are still a bit "shrouded in mystery," says Brian Lapointe, a research professor with Florida Atlantic University, who's been studying sargassum for over 40 years.
His hypothesis is that it has to do with how humans are altering the nitrogen cycle. We're using more fertilizer, burning biomass, cutting down forests and increasing wastewater from cities, all of which sends ammonium, nitrate and phosphate down major river systems.
Those elevated nutrients then shoot out over the surface of the ocean, acting as a fertilizer for sargassum patches.
"What we've found in studying these plants over the last four decades is that the ratio [of phosphate to nitrogen] is going up, and that's exactly what's happening to all these major river systems," Lapointe said. "It's almost like sargassum is a barometer for how global nitrogen levels are changing."
Cleaning up major rivers from the Mississippi to the Orinoco would be the best step for mitigating excessive sargassum bloom, Lapointe says.
But in the meantime, the blooms continue to get bigger and bigger. Barnes and Lapointe both say that this year is already on track to break records.
The University of South Florida's Optical Oceanography Lab, which tracks the mass using NASA satellite imagery, the latest bloom has already doubled every month from November to January.
And, thanks to ocean currents, the belt is continuing to migrate westward, threatening beaches along the Florida Keys, along with Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula and the eastern Caribbean.
An estimated 200 tons of sargassum already began washing up on beaches along the Yucatán Peninsula earlier this month, spurring local authorities to jump into cleanup operations.
Key West, Fla., is also seeing large, early amounts of sargassum piling up, restricting beach access just a month after beaches were closed in other parts of the state duringa toxic microalgae bloom known as the "red tide."
Barnes says the two oceanographic events are totally unrelated, but "they both run on the same principle: You need a seed population, you need fertilizer, you need light and the right temperatures." It's a good year for those elements.
Local officials in Florida and elsewhere sometimes use heavy machinery to clear beaches, but scientists say that can threaten local sea turtle nests and cause shoreline erosion.
Last year's record bloom offered a taste of what could happen without proper planning.
Following last year's record sargassum levels, the U.S. Virgin Islands declared a state of emergency and requested assistance from FEMA to handle the masses.
A desalination plant on St. Croix became so clogged with seaweed that local electrical-generating capacities were threatened.
In Barbados, local governments employed 1,600 dump trucks daily during the peak season to clean the beaches for tourists, LaPointe told NPR.
And desperate officials in the Cayman Islands tried a pilot program to pump the seaweed directly out of the water, but swiftly suspended the efforts after realizing how difficult it is to decompose the material, the Associated Press reported.
As evidence that necessity is breeding invention, private companies, too, have experimented with using sargassum as food, fertilizer, biofuel, construction material and medicinal products.
But Lapointe cautions that keeping the biomass at bay might be the safest long-term option.
The field of study is young, but "we're finding [sargassum] can contain heavy metals, including arsenic. It has fairly high concentrations of the toxin," he said. "There's a concern that, through leaching, that could impact groundwater."
In 2018, doctors on the islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique also reported more than 11,000 cases of "acute sargassum toxicity" during an eight-month period of intense beach buildup, Reuters reported.
The hassle and danger of living with sargassum yields is only complicated by how tricky it is to predict where the patches will wash ashore. Bloom sizes vary based on wind, river flooding, droughts and temperature.
But once the seaweed is grown, patches "aggregate where the currents push them," Barnes says. "We can see it out there in the open ocean and we can track movements offshore with accuracy. [...] But once you start getting into the scale of an individual beach, it becomes much more difficult."
Barnes is hoping his team can get better at predicting sargassum beaching with precision, in large part because he doesn't see this excessive bloom cycle "winding down anytime soon."
"It's only getting bigger and bigger and bigger each year," he said.
Lapointe agreed, framing it another way: "I remember seeing The Blob as a movie when I was a kid and it scared the you-know-what out of me. [...] This blob of seaweed is scarier. It's the real deal."
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Michigan State basketball reaches out to High Point transfer Zack Austin
Yardbarkerhttps://www.yardbarker.com/college_basketball/articles/michigan_state_basketball_reaches_out_to_high_point_transfer_zack_austin/s1_17163_38584170
Michigan State basketball has reached out to a couple of transfers already, the latest being High Point’s Zack Austin.How do you make an athletic roster even more athletic? You hit the transfer portal. Michigan State basketball may be doing just that this offseason, barring some attrition.Earlier this week, Tom Izzo reached out to Butler transfer, and leading scorer, Jayden Thomas and now he...
Michigan State basketball has reached out to a couple of transfers already, the latest being High Point’s Zack Austin.
How do you make an athletic roster even more athletic? You hit the transfer portal. Michigan State basketball may be doing just that this offseason, barring some attrition.
Earlier this week, Tom Izzo reached out to Butler transfer, and leading scorer, Jayden Thomas and now he’s putting his feelers out there for another top player on the market.
According to Jake Weingarten, Michigan State is one of the latest programs to reach out to High Point’s Zack Austin.
Newest schools here: Michigan State, Alabama, Providence, Florida, UNCC, WCU, UAB, Tulsa, Austin told @Stockrisers. https://t.co/WCTzpxeYfr
— Jake (@jakeweingarten) March 15, 2023
This would be an intriguing addition because he has basically everyone in college basketball pushing to land him. He’s already heard from dozens of schools and his recruitment is going to pick up here soon when some of those teams finish up their March runs.
What kind of player is Michigan State targeting in Austin? A bouncy scorer.
Sophomore Zack Austin is entering the transfer portal. The 6’5 Guard had a great season for High Point averaging 14 PPG,5 RPG,1 SPG,and 2 Blocks a game. Austin was also efficient finishing with a 57% TS. Austin is an elite athlete who dunks everything and he’s a great defender. pic.twitter.com/QcdAjeGVAo
— KJ (@Kjpistons) March 15, 2023
Austin spent two seasons at High Point, averaging 14.4 points, 8.0 rebounds, 1.3 steals, and 2.2 blocks as a true freshman while shooting 41 percent from the floor, 32 percent from deep, and 72 percent from the line. He then averaged 14.1 points, 5.4 rebounds, 2.1 blocks, and 1.1 steals with a shooting percentage of 44 percent from the floor, 33 percent from deep, and 79 percent from the line. He can put the ball in the hoop and he’s a willing defender on the wing/forward spot.
He faced Michigan State last season and scored 15 points with eight rebounds and two steals while shooting 5-for-10 from the floor and 3-for-6 from deep.
What stands out is obviously his 2.2 blocks per game over his career at the wing spot and that just goes to show what kind of athlete he is.
Austin stands 6-foot-7 and weighs about 200 pounds and he can get up. If you watched the highlights above, you’ll see he loves to throw down over anyone.
Just imagine a lineup with Coen Carr, Austin, Jaden Akins, and Xavier Booker out there. There wouldn’t be a more athletic group in the nation.
We’ll see how much effort Izzo puts in to recruiting the High Point transfer, but gauging interest is a good start.
This article first appeared on Spartan Shadows and was syndicated with permission.
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HPU Poll: Nearly Half of North Carolinians Prefer Changing to Year-Round Daylight Saving Time
highpoint.eduhttps://www.highpoint.edu/blog/2023/03/hpu-poll-nearly-half-of-north-carolinians-prefer-changing-to-year-round-daylight-saving-time/
HIGH POINT, N.C., March 9, 2023 – The latest High Point University Poll finds that nearly a majority of poll respondents (46%) prefer changing to year-round daylight saving time. That would mean a later sunrise and more daylight in the evening.Only 20% of poll respondents would prefer an earlier sunrise and less daylight in the evening or changing to standard time. About one in five (21%) said they would prefer to keep the current system of switching between standard time and daylight saving time, which is set t...
HIGH POINT, N.C., March 9, 2023 – The latest High Point University Poll finds that nearly a majority of poll respondents (46%) prefer changing to year-round daylight saving time. That would mean a later sunrise and more daylight in the evening.
Only 20% of poll respondents would prefer an earlier sunrise and less daylight in the evening or changing to standard time. About one in five (21%) said they would prefer to keep the current system of switching between standard time and daylight saving time, which is set to begin Sunday, March 12 at 2 a.m.
“Daylight Saving Time was adopted for hypothesized energy savings during World War I,” said Dr. Daniel Hall, economist and dean of the Phillips School of Business. “The energy savings benefits have been difficult to prove and the United States has become less energy-intense per dollar of GDP. Tenuous benefits have diminished while the coordination and switching costs have increased, and national conversations on daylight saving are taking place. For example, Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida has reintroduced a bipartisan supported bill that will keep most of the health, safety, leisure, productivity and consumer benefits of daylight saving by making it year-round while removing the coordination and switching costs if it passes nationwide.”
Founding Dean of HPU’s School of Nursing Dr. Racquel Ingram adds that the shift in time for daylight saving can impact the body’s natural cycle.
“Switching between daylight saving time and standard time can impact the body’s circadian rhythm, altering both physical and mental health,” said Ingram. “Specifically, there is an increased risk of sleep pattern disturbance leading to fatigue, depression, heart attacks and other issues. These health concerns are typically more prominent during the first few weeks of the time change. Therefore, advance preparation is highly recommended to adjust physically and mentally.”
NC residents – Daylight Saving Time (March 2023)
Currently in most of the country clocks are set forward by one hour in the spring, called daylight saving time, and are set back by one hour in the fall, to standard time. Which of these do you prefer – change to year-round daylight saving time (later sunrise, more daylight in the evening), change to year-round standard time (earlier sunrise, less daylight in the evening), keep the current system?
Change to year-round daylight saving time – 46%
Change to year-round standard time – 20%
Keep the current system – 21%
Unsure – 13%
The most recent HPU Poll of 1,010 respondents was fielded by the High Point University Survey Research Center on Feb. 27 through March 4, as an online survey using a panel of respondents recruited and maintained by Dynata. Dynata sent invitations to its panel of N.C. respondents and the SRC collected responses on its Qualtrics platform. The SRC did all data analysis. The online sample is from a panel of respondents, and their participation does not adhere to usual assumptions associated with random selection. Therefore, it is not appropriate to assign a classic margin of sampling error for the results. In this case, the SRC provides a credibility interval of plus or minus 3.4 percentage points to account for a traditional 95% confidence interval for the estimates (plus or minus 3.1 percentage points) and a design effect of 1.2 (based on the weighting). The data is weighed toward population estimates for age, gender, race/ethnicity and education based on U.S. Census numbers for North Carolina. Factors such as question wording and other methodological choices in conducting survey research can introduce additional errors into the findings of opinion polls.
Further results and methodological details from the most recent survey and past surveys can be found at the Survey Research Center website. The materials online include past press releases as well as memos summarizing the findings (including approval ratings) for each poll since 2010.
The HPU Poll reports methodological details in accordance with the standards set out by AAPOR’s Transparency Initiative, and the HPU Survey Research Center is a Charter Member of the Initiative.
You can follow the HPU Poll on Twitter.
Dr. Martin Kifer, chair and associate professor of political science, serves as the director of the HPU Poll, and Brian McDonald is the associate director of the HPU Poll.
Northeast Florida high school Athlete of the Week poll: March 13
The Florida Times-Unionhttps://www.jacksonville.com/story/sports/high-school/2023/03/13/northeast-florida-athlete-of-the-week-poll-march-6-11-2023/7714281001/
Florida Times-UnionPonte Vedra's Sam Ritchie is the Florida Times-Union's 28th Northeast Florida Athlete of the Week for the 2022-23 high school sports season, covering the week of Feb. 27-March 4.Ritchie scored a career-high 34 points, including 6 for 6 from 3-point range before halftime, to lead the Sharks to victory in the Florida High School Athletic Association boys basketball Class 6A semifinal.He placed first in a vote of top performers that included Cheyenne Cruce (Middleburg girls wrestling), Gabr...
Florida Times-Union
Ponte Vedra's Sam Ritchie is the Florida Times-Union's 28th Northeast Florida Athlete of the Week for the 2022-23 high school sports season, covering the week of Feb. 27-March 4.
Ritchie scored a career-high 34 points, including 6 for 6 from 3-point range before halftime, to lead the Sharks to victory in the Florida High School Athletic Association boys basketball Class 6A semifinal.
He placed first in a vote of top performers that included Cheyenne Cruce (Middleburg girls wrestling), Gabrielle Ellis (Clay softball), Billy Girgis (Ridgeview baseball), Brianna Henderson (White flag football), Faith Kennedy (Bishop Snyder beach volleyball), Elisabeth Lewis (Atlantic Coast girls lacrosse), Jayce Paridon (Fleming Island boys wrestling), Keshawn Porter (Westside boys track), Adriah Tongkhuya (Tocoi Creek girls tennis), Matthew Weidle (Fletcher boys lacrosse) and Presley Wolfe (Bolles girls track).
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This week's vote
It's time to vote for Florida Times-Union's Athlete of the Week for the week of March 6-11, 2023.
The Times-Union gathers nominees from scores, stats and nominations e-mailed to the sports desk during the week by coaches across Northeast Florida. Coaches can e-mail these stats and scores to preps@jacksonville.com.
This week's voting begins Monday morning and closes at 10 a.m. Thursday. Votes are restricted to once per device per hour.
To see the poll, click here.
Here are the nominees for March 6-11:
Peyton Bass, West Nassau softball
The senior pitcher earned wins in the Warriors' wins over Fernandina Beach and Trinity Christian, including three doubles and five runs batted in at the plate.
Ryann Frechette, Bartram Trail girls lacrosse
The junior attacker got 14 goals, one assist, five ground balls and three caused turnovers while tallying her 400th career point in the Bears' wins over Creekside and Oviedo.
Mya Griner, Stanton girls tennis
The senior led the Blue Devils from No. 1 singles and doubles to victories against Fletcher and Wolfson.
Maddox Johnson, Ponte Vedra boys lacrosse
The senior scored eight goals in Friday's 16-14 victory over Virginia power St. Stephen's & St. Agnes.
MyKayla Maddox, Fleming Island flag football
The senior passed for 133 yards and four touchdowns and ran for 71 yards and two scores in a 40-0 win over Mandarin, then gained 233 total yards with five touchdowns in a 32-0 win over unbeaten White.
Tyrone Summerall, Trinity Christian boys track
The junior won the 100, 200 and 400-meter dashes while leading the Conquerors to a 4x400 relay victory at the Bishop Snyder Mini Meet.
Cooper Whited, Sandalwood baseball
The senior pitcher threw a no-hitter with nine strikeouts in a 2-0 win against Fletcher at 121 Financial Ballpark, and went 4 for 5 at the plate with two doubles in a 16-5 win over First Coast.
Destiny Williams, Palatka girls track
The eighth-grader won the high jump and triple jump at the Raider Invitational.
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