Mercer Earns Sixth Consecutive Barrett-Bonner Award

MACON, Ga. – Mercer University earned its sixth consecutive Barrett-Bonner Award from the Southern Conference at the conclusion of the 2020-21 academic year.

The Barrett-Bonner Award is given to the SoCon institution that places the highest percentage of its student-athletes on the league's academic honor roll. Mercer placed 83% of its student-athletes on the Southern Conference Honor Roll.

In addition to leading the SoCon in total Honor Roll selections and percentage of student-athletes on the Honor Roll, the Bears had a league-best 114 student-athletes earn the Commissioner's Medal for posting a GPA of at least 3.8 and had a SoCon-high 41 student-athletes register 4.0 grade-point averages.

Mercer has won the award each year it has been eligible since joining the conference during the 2014-15 academic year, and its six-year winning streak marks the longest since former SoCon member Davidson won the award six straight years from 2008-09 to 2013-14.

Mercer and Davidson are the only schools to win the Barrett-Bonner Award multiple times and have combined to receive the award 26 times in its 29-year existence.

First presented in 1994, the Barrett-Bonner Award is named after Col. John G. Barrett, faculty athletics representative at Virginia Military Institute from 1965-87, and Dr. Francis W. Bonner, faculty athletics representative at Furman University from 1968-90.

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Founded in 1833, Mercer University is a dynamic and comprehensive center of undergraduate, graduate and professional education. With more than 9,000 students enrolled in 12 schools and colleges, on major campuses in Macon and Atlanta; medical school sites in Macon, Savannah and Columbus; and at regional academic centers in Henry and Douglas counties, Mercer is classified as a Doctoral University with High Research Activity by the Carnegie Classification of Institutes of Higher Education and ranked among the top tier of national research universities by U.S. News & World Report. The Mercer Health Sciences Center includes the University's School of Medicine and Colleges of Nursing, Health Professions and Pharmacy. Mercer is affiliated with five teaching hospitals – Memorial University Medical Center in Savannah; The Medical Center, Navicent Health, and Coliseum Medical Centers in Macon; and Midtown Medical Center and St. Francis Hospital in Columbus. The University also has an educational partnership with Robins Air Force Base in Warner Robins. It operates an academic press and a performing arts center in Macon and an engineering research center in Warner Robins. Mercer is one of only 286 institutions nationwide to shelter a chapter of The Phi Beta Kappa Society, the nation's most prestigious academic honor society; one of eight institutions to hold membership in the Georgia Research Alliance; and the only private university in Georgia to field an NCAA Division I athletic program. www.mercer.edu

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