After graduation from high school, he attend Saint Anselm College to play football and baseball.
[citation needed] In 2015, Barese was named the head coach of the Merrimack Warriors baseball program, succeeding his Jim Martin.
Barese would go on to attend Saint Anselm College, while there he played both quarterback[2] and pitched for the Hawks.
In September, 2014, he was named the interim head coach of the Warriors after Jim Martin left the team to become an assistant at Rhode Island.
[6] In December 2021, Barese joined the coaching staff of the UMass Lowell River Hawks.