Athletics
Mercer is an NCAA Division I member competing in the Atlantic Sun Conference. Mercer joined the Atlantic Sun, formerly called the Trans American Athletic Conference, in 1978 and is the only charter member remaining with the conference. The university fields varsity teams, known as the Bears, in eight men's and nine women's sports. Men's teams include baseball, basketball, cross-country, football (beginning 2013), golf, lacrosse, soccer, and tennis. Women's teams include basketball, cross-country, golf, lacrosse (beginning 2012), sand volleyball, soccer, softball, tennis, and volleyball. Mercer teams have won 15 Atlantic Sun Conference championships: four baseball, three men's basketball, two women's basketball, five men's soccer, and one women's soccer. The most recent championship was the one in women's soccer achieved in November 2010. Winners of the 2011-12 College Insider Post-Season Tournament CIT men's basketball championship.
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