Don Barr Quick Hits

Career Recap

• 20 Seasons as Head Coach
• One Season as USF Assistant (1991)
• Former Academy and Club Director

Coaching Accomplishments

• Career .617 Winning Percentage
• Seven-Time Conference Coach of the Year
• Six Conference Titles
• Nine NCAA Tournament Appearances

Personal

• Graduated from Morehead State in 1972
• Played at Kentucky and Morehead State

After 20 seasons at the helm as the University of South Florida's longest-tenured head coach, Don Barr will take on a new role for the 2012-13 season. After piloting the Bulls program from 1992-2012, Barr becomes the Bulls' Director of Operations, shifting roles as he continues his USF legacy.

Barr’s dual match record while coaching is an impressive 647-401 (.617), and he led the Bulls to six conference championships and nine appearances in the NCAA Tournament with the last coming in the 2008-09 season.

His conference titles came from The Metro Conference in 1995, Conference USA in 1996, 1998, 1999, and 2002, and from the BIG EAST in 2009. He kept the program among the highest-ranked in the nation as well as the Bulls have notched final Intercollegiate Tennis Association rankings consistently in the top 40 and as high as No. 23 in 2002.

The Dean of USF Coaches has also directed two players to conference Player of the Year honors, including Lucas Jovita in 2011, and two players to conference Freshman of the Year honors. He has picked up a Coach of the Year trophy at the conference tournament seven times.

Since the Bulls joined Conference USA in 1996, Barr has tutored a total of 15 players to 26 first-team all-conference honors in either Conference USA or the BIG EAST.

His 2011-12 squad finished the season with a 9-12 record and second-place finish at the BIG EAST Championships, marking the seventh season in which the Bulls have placed in the top three in the nine-team conference. The Bulls narrowly missed a 10th appearance in the NCAA Tournament under Barr, falling just below the ITA-ranking threshold necessary for inclusion in the field. In addition to Jovita’s Player of the Year honor, Wael Kilani and Federico Sabogal were named All-BIG EAST.

Barr came to USF in 1991 as an assistant coach and assumed head coaching duties the following year.  Before arriving on campus, Barr was a director for several clubs and academies including the Nick Bollettieri Academy in Bradenton, the Fontainbleu Hilton in Miami, the Davis Island Tennis Center in Tampa, and the Sweetwater Country Club in Longwood, Fla.

Barr also managed own tennis academy in Tampa called the Junior Tennis Academy and was the president of a tennis management company. In addition, Barr has traveled extensively as a clinician for IBM, giving clinics with professionals including Tom Gorman, Betty Stove and Butch Bucholz.

A native of Cincinnati, Barr played number one singles at both Kentucky and Morehead State before earning his degree from Morehead State in 1972.

Barr currently resides in Land O'Lakes with his wife Lana. The couple has two sons, Donald and Douglas.