Laura Barry

				Hometown: Cary, N.C. Last College: North Carolina '09 Position: Graduate Assistant Season: 1st Year

Laura Barry was hired as a graduate assistant with the St. John's women's basketball program in the summer of 2011. Her primary responsibilities include overseeing the team managers and practice players, helping organize gameday operations and travel, and assisting coaches when necessary.

Barry comes to St. John's after spending the 2010-11 season assisting head coach Kate Costanzo at Allegheny College in Meadville, Penn. At Allegheny, Barry served as recruiting coordinator working closely with admissions and prospective student-athletes, as well as serving as academic coordinator. She was also solely responsible for video breakdown of games and of opponents' games and tendencies.Barry also organized the travel arrangements for the Gators.

Prior to arriving at Allegheny, Barry worked at the Women's Sports Foundation, where she helped advance the lives of girls through sport and physical activity opportunities. She also spent time in Steamboat Springs, Colo., planning events and implementing fundraising strategies at Old Town Hot Springs, a local health club.

Barry brings the power of the Tar Heels to St. John's, as she played three seasons with North Carolina (2007-09), playing for head coach Sylvia Hatchell. In her time in Chapel Hill, she was a part of two ACC Championships and a member of the 2007 UNC squad that had a NCAA Final Four run. She transferred to Chapel Hill after playing the 2004-05 season at UNC-Wilmington under former Tar Heel assistant coach Ann Hancock.

From 2004 through 2009, Barry coached alongside Hatchell in her girls basketball camps, as well as numerous other skills camps.

Outside of basketball, Barry worked as a ticket sales associate for the New York Islanders Hockey Club in Plainview, N.Y., and as an operations and ticket sales assistant for Carolina Railhawks Soccer in Cary, N.C.

Barry graduated from UNC with a dual bachelors degree in Exercise and Sport Science and Communications Studies in 2009. A Cary, N.C., native, Barry is currently pursuing her M.B.A. in Executive Management at St. John's University Tobin School of Business.

THE LAURA BARRY FILE
Coaching/Operations Experience

• 2011-Present: St. John's University, Graduate Assistant
• 2010-11: Allegheny College, Assistant Coach
• 2004-09: Sylvia Hatchell Girls Basketball team & skills camps

Playing Experience

• 2007-09 University of North Carolina (guard)
• 2004-05 UNC-Wilmington (guard)

Education

• B.A., University of North Carolina, 2009
• M.B.A., St. John's University (anticipated 2013)