Brent Barker - Athletic Director
In July of 2005, Coach Brent Barker began his new position as Faulkner University's Athletics Director. He left a highly successful baseball program in which he has lead since arriving in January 2001. He arrived in Montgomery, Alabama from being the Athletic Director and Head Football/Baseball Coach of Southwest Christian in Ft. Worth, Texas. Barker has been involved in helping several new programs develop, helped to raise the money to build the new student-multiplex and orchestrated the beginning of football, coming in 2007. This is also Barker's second season as Faulkner's golf coach.
Barker became the head coach at Faulkner University in January 2001. His first season the Eagles won the 2001 National Christian College World Series and Barker was named the NCCAA Coach of the Year. In 2002 the Eagles set many school records while winning 52 games and being ranked as high as 3rd in the NAIA Polls. The 2002-04 seasons, Faulkner has won 142 games, more than any other university in Alabama, averaging 47 wins per year. Faulkner's winning percentage of 68% over those three seasons was also the best in Alabama. Two Faulkner players, Andy Priola, and Beau Torbert, have been drafted in the past three years. Barker finished his five-year run with a combined record of 211-133 averaging 42 wins a year.
Barker has been named the Alabama High School Coaches Association Coach in his class for the past three years. He has also been named the GACC, ABCA, and Region XIII Coach of the Year in 2002.
Barker played collegiate baseball at Texas Christian University in Ft. Worth, Texas. He coached there a year and began teaching and coaching in the public schools for nine years in the Dallas/Ft. Worth metroplex. He was an assistant football coach and head baseball coach at Southlake Carroll. There he was part of a state football championship and 76 regular season football wins. As the baseball coach, he headed the Carroll Dragon baseball teams to 3 regional finals and one state tournament appearance. Barker then became the athletic director and head football coach for the next four years at Southwest Christian High School in Ft. Worth, Texas. In those four years his teams won 37 football games and played for one state championship.
Barker also officiated college basketball for twenty years throughout Texas.
Barker has been married to his wife, Belinda, for 19 years and has two daughters, Brooke age 17, and Bridget age 14. Belinda also works for Faulkner University in the development office.