Brent Barker
Head Baseball Coach
Brent Barker is entering his third year as Faulkner University’s athletics director. Prior to his arrival at the university Barker was the athletics director and head football and baseball coach at Southwest Christian School in Fort Worth, Texas. While at Faulkner Barker has been instrumental in the development of several new sports programs including golf, football and junior varsity volleyball. He played a key role in the fundraising efforts for the football program and student multiplex both new to the university this year.
Barker will return to the dugout this season to coach Faulkner’s varsity baseball team. Before taking on his administrative duties Barker served as the university’s baseball coach where he led the program to a 2001 National Christian College World Series title in his first season. In his five-year run as head coach he earned seven major coaching awards including three consecutive honors as the Alabama High School Coaches Association Small College Coach of the Year and the 2001 NCCAA Coach of the Year. He finished his coaching with a record of 211-133, averaging 42 wins a season.
Barker played collegiate baseball at Texas Christian University and coached there a year before beginning his high school coaching career in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. He also officiated college basketball for 20 years throughout Texas, and has rejuvenated that interest in Alabama, where he officiates high school games. He has been married to his wife, Belinda, for 20 years and they have two daughters, Brooke, age 17, and Bridget age 14.