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The Ford Concert Series lineup for the 2025 football season has been released ahead of the start of the season. The season's five home games will see seven different performers play on Black Field.
Mercer Athletics and Macon-Bibb County announced on Tuesday that the Major League Soccer club Los Angeles FC will use Macon as its base camp leading up to the 2025 Club World Cup, which starts in mid-June.
“We’re a third of the way through the semester now,” one of my professors announced at the start of class this week. This week also marked another sort of milestone: two months ago, I arrived at the airport in Munich with a long list of things to do and places to see, and with the surety that I would have time to do it all before August.
Softball made history by winning the first Southern Conference title in school history after beating the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (41-15, 15-5 SoCon), 5-2, in the SoCon championship game on Saturday, May 10.
Women’s lacrosse took down High Point University to win their fourth-straight Big South Championship title on Sunday, beating the Panthers, 16-8. The team is now on their way to their seventh NCAA Tournament appearance after finishing the season with a 12-7 record, including a 7-1 record against Big South opponents.
Mercer football players Myles Redding '25 and TJ Moore '25 were both invited to rookie camps to display their talents for NFL teams following the end of last week's NFL Draft. Both players went undrafted after declaring for the draft earlier this year. The purpose of these camps are to get rookie players acclimated to playing NFL style football, and for undrafted players to get noticed by teams in hopes of getting signed.
Women’s lacrosse clinched a share of the Big South regular season title this past Saturday, April 26, with a 19-1 win against Longwood University (1-14, 1-7 Big South) in Farmville, Va.
Chad Sutton stepped down as Mercer’s volleyball head coach to accept the same position at Appalachian State University on April 11 after leading the program to its first-ever outright regular season championship. The Mountaineers compete in the Sun Belt Conference.
Mercer University announced on Friday that President Willam D. Underwood will be stepping down to return to full time teaching at Mercer's Walter F. George School of Law in 2026.
Beach volleyball (23-11, 3-3 Sun Belt) competes today in the Sun Belt Conference, and will face off in the first round of the conference championship. The Orange and Black will face off against the University of Louisiana-Monroe (13-20, 2-4 Sun Belt) in Foley, Ala., coming in as the No. 4 seed, while the Warhawks are No. 5. In their only matchup of the season, the Bears beat the Louisiana-Monroe, 3-2, on March 29.
Softball
Men’s tennis closed out their season with a 4-0 loss to eventual champions Samford University in the 2025 Southern Conference Championship semifinals in Chattanooga, Tenn. on Friday.
Last Saturday afternoon, tutors for the international exchange and Erasmus students at Bamberg University led a hike to the city's Altenburg castle. Bamberg, which is known for its seven hills, among other things, is overlooked by the castle, and it has been for roughly 900 years now.
Acknowledgement of student research into the history of Mercer's LGBTQ+ community and the university's long relationship with the Georgia Baptist Convention (GBC) has been removed from The Den, Mercer's media outlet, according to one of its authors, Bekhem Mohn '25.
Softball (22-22, 3-8 Southern Conference) was in action for games against Kennesaw State University (10-33) at home, and a three-game series against SoCon opponent East Tennessee State University (14-29, 3-9 SoCon) in Johnson City, Tenn.
The Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society’s Zeta chapter at Mercer hosted the fifth-annual Malcolm Lester Lectures last Monday and Tuesday in the President’s Dining Hall.
Men’s tennis is off to their best start to a season in years, currently sitting at a record of 9-6 and on a five-game win streak. The team is undefeated in Southern Conference play this season, amassing a 5-0 record against conference foes.
Mercer softball (19-21, 1-7 SoCon) upset No. 16 University of Georgia (25-13), 5-2, on Wednesday, April 2 for the team's first top-25 win since 2018. The win pushed Mercer to a 6-1 record against in-state universities this season, and came just a week after the Bears took down Georgia Tech in Atlanta.
A few weeks before I left for Bamberg, I switched my phone’s temperature gauge to display Celsius instead of the States’ favored Fahrenheit. Within a day, my browser was littered with entries like “14 Celsius to Fahrenheit” and other versions of that search as I struggled to understand what weather to expect for the days ahead.
Bearstock 2025 started and ended with a bang as hundreds of Mercerians gathered on Cruz plaza for springtime fun, food and music.
Solutions by The State News