Barry Myers (September 11, 1938[1] – August 10, 2017[2]) was an American former college baseball and men's soccer coach.
A native West Virginian, Myers attended Marshall University, where he played baseball for the Thundering Herd under head coach Bill Chambers.
After graduating from Marshall in 1960, Myers coached high school baseball in West Virginia for a few seasons.
[3][4][5][6][7] Ahead of the 1967 season, Myers was hired as the head coach at Jacksonville, then a College Division school.
At the District 3 Regional in Gastonia, North Carolina, the team went 0–2, losing games to Ole Miss and South Alabama.
Tom McMillan, a second-round selection of the Cleveland Indians in 1973, later played in Major League Baseball.
[12][13][14] After going 32–16 in Myers' first season, 1978, Mercer joined the newly formed Trans America Athletic Conference.
In 1994, however, Myers was named Coach of the Year for the fourth time as the team won West Division and played in the conference tournament.