Brianne Barker-Groth

Colleyville Heritage High School

Starting her high school coaching career, Brianne was the assistant coach at Lovejoy High School, which in her two seasons with them, won a 5A State Championship, and were the runners up the second year. Brianne then took the head coaching job at Colleyville Heritage High School. She has taken a team with a losing record the previous year, and coached them to a 33-8 record. They just won their district championship and are presently headed into the state playoffs ranked #5 in the state.

Brianne’s success is based on her in depth knowledge of the game, having played as a setter in college and professionally, her ability to be a positive coach in teaching young players the game and encourage them along the way, and her ability to work with parents in a very professional manner. Her love for the game goes very deep, and she is excited that she can give back to the game that she fell in love with as a youngster.

Brianne Barker-Groth has been a very well known high school player in Texas. She was chosen as the Texas Player of the Decade (2000-2009), a 2 time Gatorade Texas Player of the Year, a AVCA High School all-American, led her high school team to two straight 6A State Championships while being named the Texas High School Player of the Year. She played college ball at the University of Oklahoma, where she was a 4 year starting setter and two-time third-team All-American. She led her team to the Round of 16 in 2010 where they lost to the eventual national champions, Penn State.

Brianne also was involved with USA volleyball's A2 program and won a national club open champoinship as well as made the national all tournament team. She then went on to play professionally in Puerto Rico for Bayamon.