Head Basketball Coach, Portland State University

PHS Class of 1989

Barret Peery graduated from PHS in 1989 Where he excelled in basketball. [other high school accomplishments?] After graduating from Payson High, Coach Peery attended Snow College, where he played college basketball for two seasons before transferring to Southern Utah University (SUU). At SUU he was a part of two American West Conference championship squads. He graduated with a bachelor’s in _______ in [year].

After graduating from college, Peery was assistant basketball coach at Southern Utah University for one season before returning to Snow College for another season as an assistant coach. After a stop at Utah Valley University, Peery returned as an assistant at Southern Utah before taking an assistant coaching position at Portland State from 2002 to 2003. Peery then served as an assistant coach at College of Southern Idaho from 2003 to 2005 under Gib Arnold, before taking over as the head coach from 2005 to 2008. In that time, Peery compiled an 85-19 record and was a two-time NJCAA Region 18 Coach of the Year, while also making the NCJAA National Tournament semifinals during the 2006–07 season. In 2008, Peery moved back to the NCAA Division I ranks to join Jim Boylen's staff at Utah where he stayed until 2011, before heading to Indian Hills Community College as head coach, and led them to a 93-11 record in three seasons. Peery joined Herb Sendek's staff at Arizona State in 2014, and rejoined Sendek again at Santa Clara. He was then named the head coach at Portland State University in 2017.

Inducted 2020