Bob Barry enters his first year with the Rainbow Wahine after heading the men’s soccer team at Willamette University las season.
Barry has been associated with soccer on the collegiate level sence he started in goal at the University of Paris in 1967-68.
Barry began his coaching career as the boy’s soccer head coach at ‘Iolani School in 1970 and stayed until 1995. However, in 1984, Barry broke into the collegiate ranks as an assistant with the men’s soccer team at the University of Massachusetts, where he was earning his master’s in sports management. Following his tenure at ‘Iolani, Barry became the assistant at the University of Richmond, before moving on to the head position at BYU-Hawai`i, and then Willamette.
Barry earned his bachelor’s degree in French from UH in 1965 and received his master’s in french at Middleburry College in 1968.
Barry has an advanced national diploma from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America and holds the United States Soccer Federation National “A” license. Recently, Barry also earned the Football Association (England) coaching and goalkeeper’s coaching licenses.
Barry was born in Springfield, MO., but attended high school at Ecole Nouvelle de Paudex, in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he was the starting goalkeeper from 1954-1957. His son John is an assistant men’s soccer coach at the University of Virginia. Barry now resides in Kane`ohe, O`ahu, with his wife Beth.
