Barry Barker, as a multi-sport athlete, was inducted in the Collingwood Sports Hall of Fame, in 1996.

Barry Barker is probably most renowned for his years as a Collingwood Collegiate track and field star in the middle distances.  His personal best times in the senior boys’ 800 metres and as a member of the school’s 4 X 400- metre relay team have not come close to being beaten in 20 years.

Among his accomplishments on the track were Georgian Bay region championships and a bronze at the Ontario championships in the senior boys’ 800 metre in 1976.

He also stands as the only CCI athlete invited to the world-class Maple Leaf Indoor Games, and was both a junior and senior athlete of the years at CCI.  He also participated in football, basketball and cross-country running.

During his high school years, Barker also found time to play Jr. “B” hockey in Collingwood as a reserve netminder for the 1975-76 OHA finalists, and he reached the same stage the next year with the Alliston Jr. ‘C’ Hornets.

He has been coach of the CMHA Midget Rep. team throughout the 80’s and 90’s while playing on two local slo-pitch teams that went to the Canadian championships.