Barry Davis (baseball)
Barry Davis is an American baseball coach, who is best known for his 20 year stint as the head baseball coach of the Rider Broncs. He held that position from the start of the 2005 season until the end of the 2024 season. Under Davis, Rider reached four NCAA tournaments, in 2008, 2010 and 2021 and 2023. He was named MAAC Coach of the Year three times: 2006, 2013, and 2015
Prior to Rider, Davis was the head coach at NJCAA school Gloucester County College and then-NAIA school Georgia Southwestern State University. At Gloucester, Davis won four NJCAA Division III national championships.
Davis has been inducted in four Hall of Fames. He was inducted into the Gloucester County College Sports Hall of Fame in 2010. and the Gloucester County Sports Hall of Fame in 2012. Davis was also inducted into the Bridgewater College Athletic Hall of Fame in 2014 and the NJCAA Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame in 2016.
Davis holds a bachelor's degree from Bridgewater College in health and physical education, a master's degree in education from Frostburg State University and a doctoral degree in sports leadership from Concordia University at Chicago.