Bears Win Barrett-Bonner Award For Ninth-Straight Year
5/29/2024 9:05:00 PM | Athletics Department
HILTON HEAD, S.C. – The effort of Mercer's student-athletes inside the classroom was handsomely recognized again on Wednesday evening when the Bears took home the Southern Conference's Barrett-Bonner Award for the ninth-straight year. The laurel was presented at Wednesday's Honors Dinner that wrapped up the league's spring meetings.
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The Barrett-Bonner Award is given to the SoCon school that places the highest percentage of its student-athletes on the league's academic honor roll. The award was first presented in 1994, for the 1992-93 academic year. The award is named after Col. John G. Barrett, faculty athletics representative at VMI from 1965-87, and Dr. Francis W. Bonner, faculty athletics representative at Furman from 1968-90.
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Mercer placed 78.5 percent of its student-athletes on the 2023-24 SoCon Honor Roll.
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Mercer has won the award each year it has been eligible since joining the conference prior to the 2014-15 academic year. MU's nine-year winning streak easily surpasses former SoCon member Davidson who collected the distinguished honor six-straight times from 2008-09 to 2013-14. Across the 32-year history of the award, Mercer and Davidson are the only schools to win the Barrett-Bonner Award on multiple occasions and have combined to capture the honor 29 times.
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The Barrett-Bonner Award is given to the SoCon school that places the highest percentage of its student-athletes on the league's academic honor roll. The award was first presented in 1994, for the 1992-93 academic year. The award is named after Col. John G. Barrett, faculty athletics representative at VMI from 1965-87, and Dr. Francis W. Bonner, faculty athletics representative at Furman from 1968-90.
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Mercer placed 78.5 percent of its student-athletes on the 2023-24 SoCon Honor Roll.
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Mercer has won the award each year it has been eligible since joining the conference prior to the 2014-15 academic year. MU's nine-year winning streak easily surpasses former SoCon member Davidson who collected the distinguished honor six-straight times from 2008-09 to 2013-14. Across the 32-year history of the award, Mercer and Davidson are the only schools to win the Barrett-Bonner Award on multiple occasions and have combined to capture the honor 29 times.
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