ALUMNI NOTES
Shannon Murray is the athletic director for Lakewood High School [SC]. She is a 1997 graduate of Sumter High, where she played soccer. Shannon played collegiate soccer at NGU before earning a bachelor’s degree in business from the University of South Carolina and completing the PACE alter- native certification program to become a business education teacher. She earned a master’s degree in educational administration from Western Gover- nors University and multiple certifications from Central Carolina Technical College and Florida Atlantic University.
Dwayne Robinson was recognized by the Nation- al Basketball Association (NBA) as the Junior NBA Coach of the Year.
Pierre Salmon has opened a restaurant, Pierre’s, in Spartanburg, SC. Pierre works in partnership with The Butterfly Foundation, a Spartanburg area non-profit 501(c)(3).
2002
John Polk was elected as an at-large delegate to the 2020 National Democratic Convention.
2004
Devin Liferidge is the Greer High School boy’s basketball coach. He played at NGU from 1999 through 2004 and started his career as a junior varsity coach at Blue Ridge High School in 2005. He became a varsity assistant coach and the head junior varsity coach at Greer in 2006. In 2007, he took over the Class A Williston-Elko program, which had gone 0-21
the season before. In his second season, the Blue Devils made it to the third round of the playoffs. By his third year, they were playing in the Upper State championship. In 2011, he went to Fairfield Central and made the playoffs each season he was there. He returned to the Columbia area in 2016,
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taking a job at White Knoll. The rebuilding job was more challenging in Class AAAAA, but last season the Timberwolves won the second-most games in school history and made the playoffs.
2007
Hunter Conrad, St. Johns County Administra- tor, St. Johns, FL, was the guest speaker at the St. Johns County Civic Roundtable on Monday, Sept. 14. Conrad was appointed by the St. Johns County Board of Commissioners in November 2019 as the Interim County Administrator; and was selected as St. Johns County Administrator on Feb. 4, 2020. He previously served as St. Johns County Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller, having been ap- pointed to office by Governor Rick Scott in October 2015 and elected to the office in 2016.
Before his position as Clerk, Conrad practiced law in St Augustine with the Canan Law firm, where he focused his practice on criminal law and family law litigation. Conrad also has served as an Assistant State Attorney for the 7th Judicial Circuit of the State of Florida. While working at the State Attorney’s Office, he prosecuted cases ranging from simple thefts to attempted murders to sex crimes. In addition to several years of practicing law, Con- rad worked in banking and finance.
Most recently, in 2019, Conrad was sworn in as a member of the United States Air Force Reserve as a Judge Advocate General Corps Officer (JAG). After graduating with honors from NGU, Conrad pursued his Juris Doctorate from Florida Coastal School of Law.
Robert Hampshire is the lead pastor at Village Church in Churchville, VA.
2008
Audrey Toscano-Davis and her husband, Donovan “Coach D” Davis, are the owners of The CORE (Challenging Ourselves Reaching Excellence) Sports Performance in Mint Hill, NC. Donovan was a defensive back while at NGU and is CORE Sports Performance’s lead trainer and coach. Aubrey is
an international business graduate and earned her MBA degree from Pfeiffer University. She once led the Lady Crusaders basketball team in scoring and rebounding.
2009
John Logan Schell was a contributor to the publication The Oxford Handbook of Comic Book Studies by Frederick Luis Aldama, a Distinguished University Professor at The Ohio State University. Schell is author, co-author, or editor of 48 books, including his recently published children’s book, The Adventures of Chupacabra Charlie. In 2018, Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics won the Eisner Award for Best Scholarly Work and the International Latino Book Award. He is editor and coeditor of eight academic press book series and editor of Latinographix, a trade-press series that publishes Latinx graphic fiction and nonfiction. He is the creator of the first documentary on Latinx superheroes history in comics (Amazon Prime) and director of SÕL-CON: Brown, Black, & Indigenous Comics Expo in Columbus, OH.
2011
Andrew Renfroe is senior pastor at First Baptist Church, Belmont, NC.
2014
James Farnham was named teacher of the year at Landrum High School in Landrum, SC.
2015
Joshua Caviness graduated with his Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, MO.
2016
Dr. Stephen Cannon (DMin) has been named senior pastor at Millbrook Baptist Church in Aiken, S.C. He has served as a member of the Southern
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