Newsmakers

▪ Keasha Currence, a 22-year-old native of Rock Hill, was crowned Miss Limestone College Feb. 13. Keasha Currence is a senior marketing major and a member of the Limestone Dance Team. She is the daughter of Keith and Vivian Currence. She will advance to the Miss South Carolina Scholarship Pageant June 21-25 at Township Auditorium in Columbia. Her personal platform is “Don’t Stand By, Stand Up”: Educating others on Bullying Prevention. She will perform a jazz dance to a 1920s theme for her talent. Currence was the student body president her senior year at South Pointe High School, where she was a cheerleader and played varsity basketball and softball.

▪ Alexis Mitchell, daughter of Jackie Anderson and Omar Mitchell and granddaughter of T.J. and Patricia Marshall, recently was crowned Miss Sterling Lodge No. 344 and Living Beauty Temple No. 709. She performed a praise dance and will compete at the S.C. Elk Convention pageant. She attends Clinton College.

▪ The Piedmont Fellowship of Christian Athletes has received a $15,000 grant from the Herbert & Anna Lutz Foundation for Chester County. FCA will use the grant to support the new Chester County Director for FCA, Kim Gray. Gray also serves as chaplain for Chester High School and will use the grant for campus and team huddles, coaches Bible studies, game-day and community outreach events and student-athlete character development. The foundation funding will also provide for FCA chaplain Will McBrayer’s new position at Lewisville High School. FCA will be able to allocate coaches’ Bibles and athletes’ Bibles to interested individuals and offer scholarships to FCA leadership and coaches camps during the summer.

▪ Joshua Erby, son of Salena Wright Erby and Darrell Erby, Sr. of Rock Hill, was among the recipients at South Carolina State’s 4.0 Excellence Honors and Awards Convocation 2016 on April 5. Erby graduated from Rock Hill High School in 2012, where he served as the team quarterback. He attended Bluefield College, in Bluefield W.Va., where he served as quarterback for two years and transferred to S.C. State University where he will play quarterback.

This story was originally published April 23, 2016 at 4:57 PM with the headline "Newsmakers."