Barret Rex Peery (born April 3, 1971) is an American college basketball coach and current assistant coach at UNLV. He was formerly the head coach at

Portland State Portland State University (PSU) is a public research university in Portland, Oregon. It was founded in 1946 as a post-secondary educational institution for World War II veterans. It evolved into a four-year college over the following two decades ...

Playing career

Peery played college basketball at

Snow College Snow College is a public community college in Ephraim, Utah. It offers certificates and associate degrees in a number of areas, along with bachelor's degrees in music and software engineering and a four-year nursing program. Snow College is part ...

for two seasons before transferring to

Southern Utah Southern Utah University (SUU) is a public university in Cedar City, Utah. Founded in 1897 as a normal school, Southern Utah University now graduates over 1,800 students each year with baccalaureate and graduate degrees from its six colleges. ...

, where he was a part of two

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championship squads.

Coaching career

After graduation, Peery assisted at Southern Utah for one season before returning to Snow College for another season as an assistant coach. After a stop at

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, Peery returned as an assistant at Southern Utah before taking an assistant coaching position at

from 2002 to 2003. Peery then served as an assistant coach at

College of Southern Idaho College of Southern Idaho (CSI) is a public community college in Twin Falls, Idaho. It also has off-campus programs in Jerome, Hailey, Burley and Gooding. Until the foundation of the College of Western Idaho in 2007, CSI was one of only two ...

from 2003 to 2005 under Gib Arnold, before taking over as the head coach from 2005 to 2008. In that time, Peery compiled an 85-19 record and was a two-time NJCAA Region 18 Coach of the Year, while also making the NCJAA National Tournament semifinals during the 2006–07 season. In 2008, Peery moved back to the NCAA Division I ranks to join Jim Boylen's staff at

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where he stayed until 2011, before heading to

Indian Hills Community College Indian Hills Community College (IHCC) is a public community college in Iowa with campuses in Ottumwa and Centerville. IHCC serves both traditional residential students and commuter students, primarily from a ten-county area in southeast Iowa as ...

as head coach, and led them to a 93-11 record in three seasons. Peery joined

Herb Sendek Herbert Joseph Sendek Jr. (born February 22, 1963) is an American college basketball coach who is the current men's basketball head coach at Santa Clara. Early life Herbert Joseph Sendek, Jr. of Slovak descent, grew up in Pittsburgh and attended ...

's staff at

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in 2014, and rejoined Sendek again at Santa Clara before being named the head coach at Portland State.

Head coaching record

NJCAA

NCAA D1

References

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