Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mike Mercer
He's easily notable.   quite specifically includes amateurs who play at the highest level of their sport as likely to be notable.  Playing at the University of Georgia is playing in the NCAA Division I and in one of its major conferences (the Southeastern Conference), so it is playing at the highest level of the sport of amateur men's basketball.  As such, there is indeed media coverage of him.http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?s_hidethis=no&p_product=AT&p_theme=at&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_field_label-0=Author&p_field_label-1=title&p_bool_label-1=AND&s_dispstring=%22Mike%20Mercer%22%20AND%20date(all)&p_field_advanced-0=&p_text_advanced-0=(%22Mike%20Mercer%22)&xcal_numdocs=20&p_perpage=10&p_sort=_rank_:D&xcal_ranksort=4&xcal_useweights=yes http://www.onlineathens.com/cgi-bin/search/cqcgi/@ath_stories.env?CQ_LOGIN=&CQ_USER_NAME=guest&CQ_PASSWORD=guest&CQ_DO_QUERY=YES&CQ_EXPANSION_LEVEL=3&CQ_MAX_WILDCARD=1000&CQ_MAX_FUZZY_SPELLING=50&CQCNT_INIT=&CQ_DTF_ADVANCED_RESULTS=YES&CQ_CUR_LIBRARY=ath_stories&CQ_DOC_MARKUP_STYLE=7&CQ_QUERY_STRING=%22Mike+Mercer%22
— User:Mwelch, 06:08, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:BIO (Wikipedia:Notability)