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Head Coach, 17th Year at Cal
Largely credited with developing the University of California men's gymnastics program into one of the nation's finest, Barry Weiner led the Golden Bears to national championships in 1997 and 1998. He has had a total of eight Top 5 national finishes, including a fifth place finish in 2006, and 11 NCAA individual championships in his fifteen seasons at Cal. The ninth-eleventh individual championships during Weiner's regime were Tim McNeill, who earned two NCAA titles on pommel horse and one on parallel bars. The results of Weiner's hard work and dedication first paid dividends in '97 when he was named National Coach of the Year after leading the Bears to a perfect 17-0 regular season and the team's first NCAA team title since 1975. Weiner then outdid himself the next year, as Cal swept through the entire '98 season without a loss en route to its second-consecutive team championship. Following that season, Weiner was named Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Coach of the Year for the third time (he won the award for the fourth time in 2004) and National Coach of the Year for the second straight campaign. Including the 16-1 overall record of 2004, Weiner's career record stands at an impressive 223-67-1 (.769) spanning over the last fifteen years.
Weiner took the reins of the men's gymnastics program in 1992 after Cal's worst-ever 1-18 season in '91. Under his guidance, Cal rebounded to post a 15-13 dual meet record, placing third in the conference and reaching the NCAA Regionals, where the team managed a seventh-place finish. Six individuals from that squad qualified for the NCAA Championships that year, including All-American Jason Bertram.
Before arriving at Cal in September 1991, Weiner maintained a lengthy association with the United States Junior National Gymnastics Program. Over an 11-year period, he has coached 15 Junior National Team members, including two Junior National all-around champions. He most recently coached the U.S. Junior National Team against Hungary in 1988 at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. He also coached the Junior Pan American Team in Ponce, Puerto Rico in 1987 and was a U.S. coach at international competitions in England and Hungary. Weiner was also selected as a coach for the 2000 Olympic Team.
The personal coach of numerous state and regional champions, Weiner has coached several athletes who are currently attending schools across the nation. His former charges include Cal gymnastics alumni Evan Richman and Scott Green.
On the competitive level, Weiner was a two-time MVP at Temple University from 1968-70. A 1968 NCAA event finalist in the parallel bars and floor exercise, he helped Temple finish fourth in the country in '68 and led the Owls to a third-place national finish in 1970. Weiner also earned gold medals at the 1968 Maccabiah Games in the floor exercise and horizontal bar.
A native of Philadelphia, he earned a bachelor of science degree from Temple in 1970. He is single and resides in El Sobrante.
