After just two seasons with the Tigers, Barron is on track to turn Princeton women's basketball into a winning program. He took over the program in the summer of 2001 and inherited a team that went just 2-25 the year before. Two games into the 2001-02 season, Barron matched that win total by coaching the Tigers to two early victories. Princeton went on to win six of its first 10 games and open the Ivy season with an impressive win over Penn.

Barron's squad also upended Harvard, giving the eventual Ivy champion Crimson their only conference loss of the year. The Tigers suffered ups and downs in Barron's first season, but ended the year with wins in three of their last four games including a 66-65 win over Penn to complete the first season sweep of the Quakers since 1996-97. Barron won as many games in that first season as Princeton had won the two previous years combined. Last season, he coached the Tigers to a 19-9 overall record and boasted his first-ever recruiting class that included leading scorer Rebecca Brown.

Prior to his appointment at Princeton, Barron coached at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn., where he had a 77-48 record in five years. His 2000-01 team went 18-7, won the first conference championship in school history and was ranked as high as No. 12 nationally in Division III. His last three teams had the three highest single-season win totals in school history, including a record 20 wins in 1999-2000.

Rebuilding is not a new term for Barron. He stepped into a program at Sewanee that had not had a winning record in a decade and led it to a conference championship and national ranking within five years. Barron took over at the University of the South (also known as Sewanee) in 1996 and immediately led the Tigers to their first winning season in 10 years. Sewanee won more games in Barron's last four seasons than in the previous 10 years combined.

Under Barron the University of the South led the nation in three-pointers made each of the past two years, including 8.4 per game last season. The Sewanee Tigers also led the nation in scoring offense in 1999-2000 and were 11th in Barron's last season at 77.6 points per game. Sewanee finished that season ranked second of 64 teams in the NCAA South Region.

Barron coached three women to All-America teams while at Sewanee. He guided Michelle Chambers to two straight All-America selections (1998-99, 1999-2000), Jen Bulkeley to All-America status in 1999-2000 and Kim Fauls earned All-America honors in 1996-97. Bulkeley was named the NCAA Woman of the Year from the state of Tennessee and an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship winner. She also won a Fulbright Scholarship and was a Rhodes scholar runner-up. She is currently taking graduate courses at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School.

In his first season at Princeton, Barron helped Allison Cahill earn All-Ivy honors and Karen Bolster land on the All-Ivy Rookie team. Maureen Lane was named second-team All-Ivy last season while Rebecca Brown was a four-time Rookie of the Week and on the All-Rookie team. Barron lived in Florida until he was 12 and moved to Knoxville, Tenn. He majored in biology at Kenyon, where he graduated cum laude in 1991 after being a dean's list student every semester. A student-athlete himself, Barron played both basketball and baseball in college while singing in an all-male acapella group, the Kokosingers.

In addition to his basketball coaching responsibilities at Sewanee, he also served at various times as an assistant football coach, assistant field hockey coach, sports information director and a physical education instructor.

Prior to his appointment at Sewanee, Barron was a science teacher at Providence Day School in Charlotte, N.C. He assisted coach David Price at Providence Day, one of the nation's winningest high school coaches. While there, Barron helped guide the boy's varisity team to a state tournament appearence. He also served as an assistant coach with the men's team at Sewanee for four years before coaching the women.

In 1998, Barron was one of three college coaches selected to serve as a floor coach for the American Basketball League (ABL) combine. Barron also served as the basketball camp director for Pete Gillen, Jeff Jones and Terry Holland at the University of Virginia and has lectured at numerous high schools and basketball camps around the country about basketball fundamentals.

Barron and his wife, Princeton softball coach Maureen Davies, reside in Hopewell, N.J. They are expecting twins this winter.