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- MU's all-time leader in assists and free-throw percentage
- In Mizzou's career top-10 in five categories
- 2002 CoSIDA Academic All-American®
- Finalist for 2003 Socrates Award
- Three-time team captain1999 Miss Show-Me Basketball
Asst. Coach, Missouri
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2005-pres. |
Graduate Asst., Missouri
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1998-04 |
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Two seasons after moving across the sideline to the bench, Kerensa Barr, one of Missouri's all-time great guards, begins her second year as an assistant coach on Cindy Stein's staff.
The West Plains, Mo., native's career has now come full-circle, as the first recruit that Stein called upon getting the Mizzou head-coaching job back in 1998 will now be recruiting the nation's top talent herself. Barr's primary responsibilities include working with the Tigers' guards. She also works with the program's marketing and community service efforts, film breakdown and scouting.
Barr's promotion to full-time status came after serving one season as a graduate assistant for the Tigers, when she assisted with video editing, film exchange, on-campus recruiting, and serving two seasons alongside David Lile as an analyst for the Tiger Radio Network's coverage of Mizzou women's basketball.
Barr finished a stellar four-year career in 2003 as the Tigers' all-time leader in assists (489) and free-throw percentage (.812). She is also second in steals (242), and third in 3-pointers (109). She was a three-year team captain for the Tigers, including during Mizzou's magical 2001 run to the NCAA Sweet Sixteen - MU's best season in over 15 years.
Outside of her play at MU, in 2001 Barr was a member of the Big 12's all-star team that traveled to Europe, and had a tryout with USA Basketball that same year.
A success off the basketball court as well, she earned Academic All-America honors in 2002, making her the first Tiger to earn such an honor since 1985. Barr was also named as one of eight finalists - the only women's basketball player in the country and one of just two women overall - for the 2003 Socrates Award, given to the student-athlete who best exemplifies excellence in athletics and academics.
Barr earned bachelor's degrees in finance and banking, and real estate, from MU in 2003, and earned her master's of business administration with an emphasis in marketing in 2005.
