Lionel Mercier-Varsity Basketball Coach/Player Late 1920’s-Early 1970’s

            The late Lionel Mercier was a player, coach teacher and administrator during his 45-year association with Bryant College.  A “pepper pot” little guard on the Bryant basketball teams during his undergraduate years in the late 20s’, he also served as a basketball coach when he returned to Bryant as a teacher in the mid 30s.

            He went on to become the Dean of Bryant’s Business Teacher Education program.  In 1970, he was honored as the Rhode Island Business Educator of the Year by the Rhode Island Business Educators Association.