Barry Myers (Baseball coach)
| Sport(s) | Baseball, Soccer |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born | 1938–1939 New Martinsville, West Virginia |
| Died | August 10, 2017 |
| Alma mater | Marshall University |
| Playing career | |
| ?–1960 | Marshall |
| Position(s) | Pitcher |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1963 | Florida State (asst.) |
| 1964–1966 | Miami-Dade JC (asst.) |
| 1967–1973 | Jacksonville |
| 1974–1977 | Mercer (asst.) |
| 1978–2003 | Mercer |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 852-765-8 |
| Tournaments | NCAA D1: 0-2 A-Sun: 20-11 NCAA D2: 1-2 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| TAAC Tournament: 1979, 1981, 1983 TAAC Division: 1982, 1994, 1997 |
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| Awards | |
| College Division District 3 Coach of the Year: 1968 TAAC Coach of the Year: 1979, 1981, 1983, 1994 |
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Barry Myers (died August 10, 2017) was an American former college baseball and men's soccer coach. He was the head baseball coach at both Jacksonville, from 1967 to 1973, and Mercer, from 1978 to 2003. At Jacksonville, he led the Dolphins to their first two NCAA Tournaments, one each in the College and University Divisions. At Mercer, he won three TAAC Tournaments and was named TAAC Coach of the Year four times. A native West Virginian, Myers attended Marshall University, where he played baseball for the Thundering Herd under head coach Bill Chambers. He was also Mercer's soccer coach from 1974 to 1976, amassing a 12-21-3 overall record.
After graduating from Marshall in 1960, Myers coached high school baseball in West Virginia for a few seasons. He began his college coaching career as a graduate assistant at Florida State in 1963. He then spent three seasons (1964–1966) at Miami-Dade Junior College as an assistant under Demie Mainieri. In 1964, Miami-Dade won the NJCAA National Championship.
Ahead of the 1967 season, Myers was hired as the head coach at Jacksonville, then a College Division school. Myers said of the hire, "I think coaching at Jacksonville is going to be a tremendous challenge, but that's why I chose coaching as a profession, because of the challenge."
In his second season, Jacksonville had a 21-11-2 regular season to qualify for its first NCAA Tournament. It went 1-2 in the District 3 Regional held in Fort Eustis, Virginia. It lost its opener to Long Island, defeated Belmont Abbey in an elimination game, and was then knocked out by Long Island. Myers was named the season's College Division District 3 Coach of the Year.
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