The Mercer Bears are the athletic teams of Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, United States.
Mercer is the only private university in Georgia with an NCAA Division I athletic program and fields teams in eight men's and nine women's sports. The university competes in the Atlantic Sun Conference for most sports; the men's lacrosse team competes as an NCAA Division I independent. Mercer will compete in the Pioneer Football League when the football team begins competition in 2013 after a 72-year hiatus; the Tony and Nancy Moye Football and Lacrosse Complex will open at the same time.
Mercer will join the Southern Conference on July 1, 2014; the university will join as a full member competing in all sports except men's and women's lacrosse and women's sand volleyball, which are not sponsored by the conference.
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