Barry began coaching youth soccer when his youngest daughter Sophie began playing as a four year old.   He coached her recreational team to five League championships, in the process working with 26 different girls.   Like many recreational teams, the roster was in a constant state of flux.   Each new season brought virtually a new team; however, the constants were success and a passion to play the game.  

Three years ago Barry, along with Doug Miller, moved the core of the girls they coached in recreational play to competitive soccer and joined the Kansas City Attack Soccer Club now the Kansas City United Soccer Club.   From the beginning the two teams they formed have been among the most successful in the City and State.

In early September, 2006, Barry learned he had terminal cancer.   In less than two months he went from appearing in excellent shape to being in constant pain, unable to eat and barely able to walk.   There were days when he could barely move or talk and he was hospitlaized on and off for three weeks in the last month and a half.   Despite this Barry attended every practice for his two teams.   For the last two weeks he needed to be carried from the parking lot to the field.   He could only sit at times and barely speak, but he lived for his girls and the game.  He never asked for sympathy, only that the girls play with purpose and passion for the game he loves.