Mission Accomplished! Saturday's Commencement Completes Journey for Senior Bears

MACON, Ga. – Mercer University had 27 members of its intercollegiate athletics teams receive their degrees at the University’s 2011 Macon Commencement ceremony last Saturday. In total, seniors made up just 15 percent of all MU student-athletes in 2010-11.

The list of those who graduated included the following (all degrees listed are Bachelor’s degrees, unless otherwise indicated):

BASEBALL
Justice French (Suwanee, Ga.), Psychology/Media Studies

MEN’S BASKETBALL
Mark Hall (Los Angeles, Calif.), Business
Brian Mills (Douglasville, Ga.), Mathematics
Brandon Moore (Birmingham, Ala.), Communications

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Kourtney Carter (Fullerton, Calif.), Business

WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY
Clara Densmore (Marietta, Ga.), Business Management
Jenna Jackson (Fayetteville, Ga.), Communications/Pre-Law

WOMEN’S GOLF
Kayli Wicker (Orange Park, Fla.), Business*

MEN’S SOCCER
Ian Cameron (Glasgow, Scotland), Economics/Finance

WOMEN’S SOCCER
Natalie Clark (Norcross, Ga.), Biology
Lizzy Shaughnessy (Roswell, Ga.), Mathematics
Raschelle Riley (Orlando, Fla.), Psychology
Kacie Hudson Marietta, Ga.), Business
Kaelyn Horton (Peachtree City, Ga.), Business

SOFTBALL
Kari Chambers (Woodstock, Ga.), Business Management
Jenni Holtz (Tracy, Calif.), Media Studies
Anna Johnson (Reynolds, Ga.), Biology
Allison Jones Ga. (Covington, Ga.), Education
Natalie Jones (Snellville, Ga.), Education
Amanda Santa Maria (Yorba Linda, Calif.), Pre-Med

MEN’S TENNIS
Fernando Armendaris (Quito, Ecuador), Economics/Political Science
Evandro Rosindo (Vitoria, Brazil), Business Management/Economics

VOLLEYBALL
Libby Hansch (Ft. Collins, Colo.), Business*
Krista Hurley (La Verne, Calif.), Education
Erica Vrvilo (Gresham, Ore.), Biology

*completed coursework in fall term