UGA tabs Slonaker for Bulldog Club

Former Mercer head men’s basketball coach Mark Slonaker has been named as the new Executive Director of the UGA Bulldog Club.

Georgia athletics director Greg McGarity made the announcement Friday.

Slonaekr has been a regional director with the university’s Central Development Team for three years and has served as a color analyst for Georgia’s men’s basketball radio network.

Since July of 2008, Slonaker has served as a regional director for Principal & Major Gifts in the school’s development office.

The Rahway, N.J., native played at Georgia from 1976-79 under head coach Hugh Durham, whose staff he eventually joined.

He was Mercer’s head coach from 1997-2008.

Slonaker, who has a bachelor’s in education from Georgia, is the first full-time director in several years.